Sentence examples for the very past from inspiring English sources

But there was something about his tone that came across as hectoring, like the denunciations that were so much part of the very past he abhorred.

And in the ambitious concluding story, "Great Day," which recounts the birthday festivities of a distinguished retired civil servant ("his signature had appeared on the nation's banknotes"), an arsonist sets fire to a local museum, seeming to wipe out the very past that is being celebrated, since many of the family's memorabilia were in this place.

As he consigns himself to that very past, perhaps the sly, silent smile of his extended leave-taking is his parting gift.

"I always tried to forget the past, the very bad past that made me depressed when my husband died," said Carol Cattley, 76, who attended a mindfulness course here taught by Dr. Williams.

But the past — even the very recent past — is full of words and ideas that many of us now find repugnant.

"The whole timekeeping scale is very past directed, not future directed," Aveni told National Geographic in a 2009 interview.

In the very recent past, this was done badly.

The third seems to have been meted out in the very recent past.