Sentence examples for workings of time from inspiring English sources

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There is much food for thought in their communal predicament: they find themselves musing on the workings of time; the importance (or lack of it) of work; the nature of beauty; the nuances of words like trust, love and betrayal.

She has confidence in the workings of time.

No one ever sat you down, when you were young, and explained the workings of time the way the safe way to cross a street was explained.

Mary Rose and her family occasionally muse on the evanescence of happiness and the workings of time in human life, but they lack the depth and complexity of enduring dramatic characters.

The idea is explored in the Marschallin's famous, heartbreaking monologue at the end of Act I, in which she recalls her youth and bafflement at the workings of time.

With the help of two enthusiastic but mercurial carpenters who had "only the shakiest grasp of the workings of time", he launched his employer's pretty little Crabber and set out for Spetses.

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"The thing you've got to understand," a source familiar with both Judy and the inner workings of the Times told me, "is that every big decision that comes out of the Times comes directly from the top.

(Sony, Blu-ray/DVD combo $40.99, DVD $30.99, R) PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES Andrew Rossi's documentary examines the workings of the Times's media desk, focusing on the reporters David Carr, Tim Arango and Brian Stelter.

"The books are written with an utterly idiosyncratic combination of emotional precision, crystalline observation and black humor, as if one of Evelyn Waugh's wicked satires about British aristos had been mashed up with a searing memoir of abuse and addiction, and injected with Proustian meditations on the workings of memory and time," Michiko Kakutani said in The New York Times.

The books are written with an utterly idiosyncratic combination of emotional precision, crystalline observation and black humor, as if one of Evelyn Waugh's wicked satires about British aristos had been mashed up with a searing memoir of abuse and addiction, and injected with Proustian meditations on the workings of memory and time.

"The Minister," from the veteran French screenwriter Pierre Schöller, is in some ways this year's answer to "Margin Call": a claustrophobic study of the inner workings of power at a time of crisis.

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