Sentence examples for simpler past from inspiring English sources

Old houses and buildings reflect Shelter Island's simpler past.

Widespread though it is, the lure of a simpler past has been most evident on television, where simplicity thrives.

There is a deep sense of the family reviving a meal from the kids' childhood and from a simpler past.

A year overshadowed by concern for Hollywood's commercial and technological future seems likely to end with a celebration of its simpler past.

On many big public questions, he proposes a middle course between faith in scientific progress and nostalgia for a simpler past.

In this cleverly executed fantasy, a couple of exhausted New Yorkers find themselves seduced by the possibility of leaping off the treadmill and parachuting into a simpler past.

Use "sank" for the simple past tense.

The first part, which consists of stories based on the Holocaust, is entitled "Passato Prossimo," which means "Simple Past," as in the simple past tense.

It is just that writing in the simple past exhorts on me a terrible sense of tedium.

"Since" means from then till now, so it should usually be used with the present perfect tense, not the simple past tense.

It seems this is now the mantra of a games industry facing a complex future while seeking to cash in on our adoration of the simple past.