Trevor is fantastically effective at foreboding; he can make a reader squirm just by withholding the next bit of some long-past anterior action he's been recounting.
If you read the popular puzzle blogs, you may quickly conclude that … the state of the art is deteriorating … that there was some long-past Golden Age when NYT crossword puzzles were noticeably better, and that the Times puzzles are right at the bottom when stacked against crosswords from all the other major venues.
"Whose child are you?" some ancient, long past dancing, would scream over the mariachi music, reeling me in.
They were appalled that "some believers long past their prime were to be seen in public parks in shorts and singlets, exercising in their free time, later returning home to a meal of indescribable caloric severity [when] there is no proof that such activity offsets coronary disease".
Their feats look so pleasurable in the doing that some of us, long past our best playing days, dream at night we are in their realm -- say, for example, patrolling the expanse of a big-league center field, or digging our cleats into the batter's box as a pitcher goes into his windup.
Every big city in America has corroding high-pressure pipelines, some in use long past their design life.
Nureyev insisted on performing until what some had charged was long past his peak.
In decades long past, some reached lengths of 20 feet and lived more than 100 years.
Smith told the Guardian several women had come forward to discuss Ailes' behavior from jobs long past, some dating back decades.
When adult siblings refuse to speak to each other because of some offense, recent or long past, their children and grandchildren can lose out on the joy of strong family relationships.
We like to picture the President sitting up long past bedtime, some night next spring, say, licking and pasting a batch of stamps fresh from engravers in Athens and Paris and Prague, and thinking to himself that he had managed to put together a pretty good album.
