Sentence examples for remote periods from inspiring English sources

But those shows were artfully crafted fictions that focused on relatively remote periods and places: Germany during the rise of Nazism in the early '30s and the Windy City in the '20s, afloat in corruption.

Most children in this study had been exposed to the current MnW for > 1 year; however, we did not attempt to assess exposure for more remote periods because retrospective data are often unreliable and this was not our initial objective.

Fitzgerald's genius was to bring a remote period alive through an accumulation of domestic details with an extraordinary economy of words.

These wells contained burnished pots of excellent quality, which show that even at this remote period Athens had a settled population, with high technical and artistic standards.

From whatever source Egypt may have obtained its metalworking processes, Egyptian work at a remote period possesses an excellence that, in some respects, has never been surpassed.

"It simply creates that really unknown and remote period," he enthused to Elizabeth Bowen as he began work, drawing lines in red crayon beside paragraphs which were to be omitted.

What the biographer is inspecting is so much more than a written communication: it's a document from a remote period in history, miraculously spared the random attrition of moving house or the impulsive purge, on a rainy afternoon, of a chaotic archive because papers annoyingly cascade out whenever you open the cabinet door.

By the time these stories reached the form we know today, they had long lost their original ritual significance, which probably goes back to the very remote period when matriarchal societies were giving way to male-dominated cultures, with Medea's repeated expulsions or flights reflecting the suppression of Earth-goddess cults.

There was something glaring in its decision to turn back the clock as far as possible, to a time long before any aging star stuck a needle in his ass, back to the safety of a remote period when a catcher like the 2013 inductee Deacon White (b.

Abraham Colles (1814) [6] first described Colles fracture and stated "one consolation only remains that the limb will at some remote period again enjoy perfect freedom in all its motions and be completely exempt from pain; the deformity however will remain undiminished through life".

In 1833, the antiquarian Angharad Llwyd described the old church as "a very ancient and dilapidated structure", which had "some good specimens of the architecture of a very remote period".