Sentence examples for present that it from inspiring English sources

Andreas Norman's Into a Raging Blaze (Quercus, £12.99), translated by Ian Giles, is so plugged into the present that it's hard to believe its publication in Norman's native Sweden anticipated Edward Snowden's revelations by two months.

But the movie is so busy jumping back and forth between the past and present that it is continually stumbling over itself and breaking its own spell (Holden).

Thanks to Docomomo, preservation is now nullifying the disconnect between past and present that it formerly reinforced.

This horror has so welded past and present that it is virtually impossible and certainly meaningless to speak of it as occurring in time".

Surpassed by the present that it aims to depict, the novel feels amiable and mild by comparison, already quaintly out of date.

It was one of those history passages that echo so loudly in the present that it sends a shiver down my spine — way, way too close for comfort.

It is full of crass juxtapositions of past and present that make it impossible to engage with either.

Waters's wisdom repackaged as a Hallmark-style graduation present: That's what it means to be an insider.

When a medal was presented, that was it; you couldn't take it back and present it again, even for TV.

Instead, it holds present and future in tension by pointing to those forces active in the present that might lead beyond it.

When the public's understanding is presented that way, it really makes me uncomfortable with people knowing my diagnosis.