Sentence examples for previous age from inspiring English sources

In a previous age he would have been a missionary... or a martyr".

In a previous age, he would have called this "sharing the proceeds of austerity".

The obvious comparison is with Charles Dickens, franchise juggernaut of a previous age.

It had the semi- fantasised stage musical sequences of a previous age.

The BBC management in a previous age existed in another social and political context.

"There are long traditions on Broadway which correspond to a previous age," said Stanley Aronowitz, a sociology professor and labor expert at the City University Graduate Center.

What the pictures quickly call to mind is that the cold war, America's previous age of anxiety, produced its own uniform etched in sharp angles.

Evolution is not a linear or a constant process, and there are times when small pockets of a previous age are left behind.

The term "baroque" (Portuguese for "misshapen pearl") was first coined by supercilious Frenchmen to describe what they deemed the grotesquely aberrant music of a previous age.

Others may follow, Liverpool's Jonjo Shelvey thought to be a Scottish target despite not having turned out for the country at any previous age level.

"I mean this in the fondest possible way," said Littlewood, "you could almost think, this is someone from a slightly previous age".