Sentence examples for representative of a time from inspiring English sources

These artifacts should be representative of a time the group agrees that civilization flourished in the region.

"Of any object, chairs are the most representative of a time period because they're also about structure," said Cara McCarty, curatorial director at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

And, yet, paradoxically, the quasi-reportorial accumulation of events builds to increasing ambiguities — the principal ambiguity being that of the directors themselves, as to whether the events that are shown are meant to be representative of a time, a place, a milieu, or not.

There are way too many submarine pictures to review in this space, so I've tried to concentrate on titles that are representative of a particular time and place or genre (existential antiwar epic, smutty sex comedy and so forth).

Such controls proceed in the following manner: moulds considered to be representative of a certain production time are extracted and examined with ultrasounds to detect microshrinkages (which is the error targeted by this application).

O'Donnell said that taping the show with a live audience was more representative of her time as a stand-up comic than of the type of material she's working with now.

The film fulfils the minimum life-story requirements: it gives you the basic facts, shows that the subject was a little bit representative of his time, tosses in a few gentle ironies.

Figure 1 shows a representative example of a temperature-time trace and the primary DTM-derived measures, related to thermal debt and recovery that were recorded and calculated.

The advantage of this approach is that the data are likely representative of a longer period of time, rather than just a single point in time.

His objection to the inhumanity of slavery, his questioning of the profit motive, and his unusual respect for women combine to make Paris seem more of a modern virtuous lefty than a real representative of his time.

The study further examined three strategies for extending the time frame, with all three approaches positing that the observed contact recorded over the brief study period are representative of a longer period of time.