Sentence examples for what a generation from inspiring English sources

It tells us what a generation is -- a Pepsi generation, a Mac generation, an Internet generation.

By slowing the growth of health spending, the recession achieved what a generation of public officials tried unsuccessfully to accomplish.

What a generation ago would be called hardcore punk is now routinely a part of metal festivals, slotted in as grindcore.

In 1970, two months before the first Earth Day celebration, President Nixon bemoaned "new packaging methods, using materials which do not degrade", and complained that "we often discard today what a generation ago we saved".

Otherwise the face is a pinched and craggy version of what a generation fell in love with in the 1980s: the thin, cruel upper lip, the berry-brown eyes and the heavy brow.

Nothing seen before was what a generation of art historians of Africa found and responded to 40 years ago, both on the ground in Africa and in American private collections: a stream of dazzling raw data that delivered sensual shocks and inspired new ideas.

Or at least that's what a certain generation will tell you.

Mr. Spiegelman's work is actually what a new generation of comics fans study like the Talmud.

Donatella has recently made it something of a priority to be in touch with what a new generation wants.

He seems to consider it his duty to rebuild what a previous generation allowed to fall apart.

Part of it is fueled by alcohol, part by nicotine, and part by what a previous generation might see as a dread uniformity eroding cultural distinctions across Western Europe.