"past" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- And they cannot do so, in large part, because they have not found their usable past.
- I came across a phrase that says it all: 'the search for a usable past'.
- He participated in the effort among leading cultural figures to define what constituted American art and was motivated to create "a usable past."
- And no post-modernist has shown a deeper commitment to locating a usable past.
- "When I have characters who don't have much of a usable past, I like to use the present," he said.
- But as conservatives understand better than liberals, that is the value of a usable past: it frees you from the intellectual confines of the moment.
- As we search - these words may be Thomas Jefferson's - for a 'usable past,' we cannot cut ourselves off from our roots.
- The Usable Past Sometimes you read a preface by a writer who doesn't seem to have absorbed the book he purports to be introducing.
- "I sometimes think of my interest in them as my search for a usable past," he said in a telephone interview from his home in Buffalo.
- The search for a "usable past," one of post-modernism's abiding preoccupations, has lured many architects back to the historical styles rejected by the modern movement.
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