Sentence examples for recent or distant from inspiring English sources

Simmi is terrified of anything connected with the past, recent, or distant.

Typical jobs and processes are entirely based in the recent or distant past.

Scenes can also recreate what happened to someone else — in the recent or distant past.

Each illuminates a different story about the recent or distant past.

One way is to mimic whatever recent or distant past appeals to you, which is the way most North Americans do it.

Writers of the new independent state, when not preoccupied with celebrating the recent or distant past, eyed critically contemporary society's more negative aspects.

All three are of course incontestably part of the west now, but that doesn't mean we ignore the recent, or more distant, past".

Look, I am not one to think the Millennials are more narcissistic than any other group of twentysomethings in recent – or even distant – memory.

"There has not been anything like this in the recent or even distant past," Ahmed al-Sherif, the director of the railway authority, said at the scene.

When Kazakh poetry began to be written down in the second half of the 19th century, these works—which included didactic termes, elegiac tolgaws, and epic zhırs were rarely anonymous but instead were closely identified with the bards of the recent or more distant past who had composed them, although the circumstances of their creation remain obscure.

Our findings highlight the critical role of frontotemporal areas in constructive autobiographical memory processes, and especially hippocampus, in re-experiencing episodic details from the recent or more distant past.