His backward-looking faith, austere to the bone and stripped of compassion, sought to recreate an era that exists mostly in the imaginations of fundamentalists.
Some authors seek to recreate a sense of the fantastic in a contemporary discourse.
He is well ahead of his oil industry peers in his approach to sustainable energy and has sought to recreate BP as a "green" energy company by promising that the firm will cut its emission of greenhouse gases by 10% by 2010.
To hear Ciputra executives tell it, at Singapore of Surabaya they sought to recreate Singapore as an alternative to life in Surabaya.
But then, on another occasion, asked if their somewhat peripatetic existence in which Ross sought to recreate and even intensify a life she'd fled from, culminating in a bitterly contested divorce, has soured her on marriage?
One of the largest field experiments ever conducted in the UK, the RBCT sought to recreate the conditions of a randomised controlled trial (RCT) across approximately 3000 km of the South West of England.
A now famous Stanford Unviersity experiment published in 1973 by Philip Zimbardo and a research assistant sought to recreate the experience of incarceration for both the jailers and prisoners, and thrust a group of otherwise healthy and non-criminal students into the situation.
But, of course, that same nostalgia was a founding theme of the South, where Albion's second sons sought to recreate, on the backs of black slaves, an imagined English arcadia.
Bailyn's goal is to show how a jumble of migrants, "low and high born," sought "to recreate, if not to improve, in this remote and, to them, barbarous environment, the life they had known before".
With a partner, Martine Fayolle, who has since moved on, they sought to recreate the kind of restaurant they remembered from their youth: casual, neighborhood-friendly and nearly always open, the menu heavy with dishes -- crepes, onion soup, moules frites -- that are easy to make and easy to eat, distinctly retro but always in fashion.
