time's passage

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

If we perceive time's passage, it's because we perceive change, and for us to perceive change the time must be somehow filled; an empty duration alone won't stimulate our awareness.

Sometimes Loynaz seems to imagine that her own writing could restore vitality to all that's been left behind by time's passage: "my water is not for the new shoots.

It's death fear, of course, that makes us dread time's passage.

The stories are filled with markers of time's passage: a birthday cake baked year-in year-out for a daughter who's now fully grown; the rigid itinerary of a retirement package tour; the "lime-green digits" of a bedside clock counting down the minutes until morning.

Is time's passage an illusion?

Some skyscrapers have endured time's passage.

Mr. Dunn (the relevé shuffler) is, I think, partly meditating on time's passage here.

Rather than a protection against time, the diary becomes a cruelly accurate gauge of time's passage.

He remains inexplicably exempt from time's passage for centuries as the world is transformed around him.

I am now inclined to believe that time's passage is an illusion.

A commanding, wry performer at age 77, Ms. Rainer's unobtrusive presence speaks eloquently of time's passage.