It describes the present and is not primarily given to making timeless statements that will ring down the ages.
When he died of tuberculosis at 53 in 1859, he could not know that his penetrating observations on America would stand as timeless statements about democratic society.
(h) Nio's projects seem to have no pretensions of being understood, nor remembered, seeming rather to emerge from the contemporaneous, to offer timeless statements. .
During the interview, Seu Jorge began to sing the song, which he said he regards as a timeless statement of an artist's obligation to his society and public, not just in Brazil but anywhere.
The success of the project fortified Steichen's status as a household name, and most probably helped him earn the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963; yet, from this distance, "The Family of Man" feels more like an index to the ideals of its age than like the timeless statement of affirmation that Steichen intended.
It occurred to me that Height's timeless statement correlates well with today's fight against global gender inequality and human trafficking.
In the Al Gore vision, the law is the king, the Constitution is a sacred trust, the Bill of Rights is honored as the timeless statement of our freedom and democracy that it is, and we are a nation of fellow citizens who stand side by side, under the rule of law, for the higher purpose of true Americanism.
Labeling a chemical substance as a carcinogen in humans is a more timeless statement than labeling an occupation or industry as a high-risk group.
And by the same weird Moebius curve, your thought about this (or anything else) is both an event that happens personally to you during a particular period of time, and a timeless, impersonal statement, that could in principle be made by anyone, about something outside you.
Once you have a purpose in mind, craft a clear, timeless, decisive mission statement that will serve as your guide during the entire process of creating your nonprofit and executing your goals.
Buffett has described it as "by far the best book on investing ever written," and although the case studies it cites are now decades old, its practical advice on how to look at balance sheets and income statements is timeless.
