Sentence examples for present day of from inspiring English sources

There are occasional exceptions, such as Ruskin Spear's uncanny capture of the combination of cunning and avuncularity that was Sir Harold Wilson, or the presentation by Tai Shan Schierenberg (a fine traditional portraitist of the present day) of Sir John Mortimer's Falstaffian personality.

The first chapter, set in the novel's present day of 1980, proceeds with wilful leisure, alighting here and there on arbitrary detail.

The mediocre jazz in Damien Chazelle's new film, "Whiplash," the story (set in the present day) of a young drummer (Miles Teller) under the brutal tutelage of a conservatory professor (J. K. Simmons), isn't itself a problem.

Clooney is himself a descendant, in that his father and his aunt were performers of note in the age of the Hollywood studios, and he imports its grace and its control into the present day of extroverted turmoil.

B6 Battles, Past and Present DAY OF INFAMY RECALLED -- President Bush invoked the memories of Pearl Harbor as inspiration for America's war against terrorism and defiantly threatened the Al Qaeda leaders holed up in the caves of Tora Bora in eastern Afghanistan.

The quest, in fact, started during the pre-historic era and continues to the present day of supercomputers.

The groundbreaking alpha particle scattering experiment by Ernest Rutherford in 1911 was the prototype of all present day probing of the atom using particle accelerators.

Erin Marie Whitten, future journalist, past naive adolescent and present day graduate of Revere High School Class of 2015.

They are creating our present day history of what is the meaningful art of our time.

"Students will have the option of choosing a prehistoric animal or present day animal of their choice.

It also requires making connections between the present day targeting of black people and the global history of anti-blackness.