Sentence examples for wholly past from inspiring English sources

For Mr. Vansittart the past was never wholly past, and rarely romantic.

As Jiang Zemin, the president, put it: "American planes come to the edge of our country and they don't say 'excuse me' .That first Colin Powell, the secretary of state, and then George Bush himself have both now expressed "regret" over the loss of the pilot is one sign that the two countries' top officials are no longer talking wholly past each other.

But that carries a commitment to the wholly past object Socrates, contrary to presentism.

Russell once wrote 'There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population that "remembered" a wholly unreal past.

Whitehead pointed to the limitations of language as one of the main culprits in maintaining a materialistic way of thinking, and acknowledged that it may be difficult to ever wholly move past such ideas in everyday speech.

"Literary fame is not wholly of the past, as other celebrated achievements are," Jackson writes.

To set foot on Buyukada is to enter a living diorama of the past, wholly preserved.

The rhetoric is taken wholly from the past, and with much more literalness than the Curtis-Smith Etudes.

Mr. Gates and Mr. Buffett said the nation was unique in that its wealthy class had arisen almost wholly in the past 30 years, so philanthropic practices that are entrenched among European and American dynasties are new here, and open to change.

Then, given metaphysical eternalism, we can still refer to Socrates even though 'Socrates' refers to something whose existence is temporally located wholly in the past, and say of him that he is not alive.

Her footsteps were wholly digested by the past.