Sentence examples for usable past from inspiring English sources

Why turn his back on this usable past?

He knows how effectively we all create a usable past.

This Putinesque impulse, the search for a usable past, however fantastical, was at the center of Ernst's opening ceremony.

In her boldly argued study of American modernism, Corn sees such borrowings as typical of American artists in search of a "usable past".

"The only usable past, the only history of that period that they adopted for the image of the future was the heroic chapter of resistance".

In this quest for a "usable past", many things from the relics of a royal saint to property deals in Jerusalem have their place.

An exciting and essential work for anyone who wants to see the present clearly, along with its usable pasts and probable futures.

My work currently looks at copyright duration in a comparative and international context, and with the help of my brilliant students at Tulane, we are building a software tool --the Durationator -- to make usable the past once more.

Windows Mobile 6 makes Windows Mobile remotely usable, unlike past versions.

T. S. Eliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent" postulates a usable literary past that present conditions alter.

What we want young people to have is a usable map of the past.