(1) And a telling line said by one character about Gustave's desire to recreate a bygone era could almost be Anderson's own epitaph: "His world had vanished long before he entered it.
(2) Though he thought it among his finest works, for many its accounts of bygone bureaucratic battles and reliance on internal memos render it a work of reference only.
(3) What better reason to get rid of it as an economically and ethically unjustifiable anachronism from a bygone age, exploited now only by the richest in our society so that they can get richer at cost to all the rest of us?
(4) The Alabama county argues that Section 5 is an unconstitutional infringement on "state sovereignty", and a relic from the bygone days of poll taxes and literacy tests.
(5) Adapted from a short story by Stephen King , the film was pure fiction – and in any case was set in a bygone age, when prisons everywhere were less open to scrutiny – so it was easy to suspend disbelief at that particular aspect of the storyline.
(6) Paleopathology is the study of human ailments in bygone times of which written records are non-existent or inadequate.
(7) Those of a more forgiving nature were perhaps willing to let bygones be bygones, especially given that the club can now look forward to a third successive season in the Premier League after the mid-season arrival of Pardew.
(8) Perhaps it was easier to tell the patient the diagnosis of cancer or its poor prognosis in bygone days than nowadays, when the wonders of modern medicine are too much publicized.
(9) It risks making visiting restaurants obsolete, just another bygone historical ritual, such as medieval banquets.
(10) Robert Senior, the chief executive of Saatchi & Saatchi, said: "The world of one-way communications is a bygone era.
(11) In 2010, an international team of researchers drilled almost 500 metres below the deepest part of the Dead Sea bed to bring up evidence of a series of epic bygone droughts, when the trapped water evaporated to precipitate deep, dense beds of salts.
(12) It doesn’t matter that the policies are from a bygone era.
(13) Economists normally advise that bygones should be bygones, but this might be the time to remember past favours.
(14) Monday mornings will continue to bring them the realities of school and discipline, but at least they will be spared the embarrassment of shouting the antiquated slogans of a bygone era.
(15) Will rooftop panels soon resemble the relics of a bygone energy age, like the enormous cooling towers of coal-fired power stations?
(16) As all the power-imbalanced recruitment is done out of sight, society is spared the scenes of desperate people queueing in the street for work, which was on full public view during bygone eras, but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t still there in what could be termed “post-ethical” phantom form.
(17) This body is populated by a motley collection of amateurs; leftovers from a bygone age, when Ukip was a ragtag band of volunteers on the fringes of British politics.
(18) Lord Steyn explained: "The part of section 3 of the 1848 Act which appears to criminalise the advocacy of republicanism is a relic of a bygone age, and does not fit into the fabric of our modern legal system.
(19) I'm always going to wonder why we can't just let bygones be bygones.
(20) Sylvia evokes a bygone era when iconoclastic young poets used to gather on weekends and listen to the latest recording of Robert Lowell reading his work.
Far
Definition:
(n.) A young pig, or a litter of pigs.
(a.) Distant in any direction; not near; remote; mutually separated by a wide space or extent.
(a.) Remote from purpose; contrary to design or wishes; as, far be it from me to justify cruelty.
(a.) Remote in affection or obedience; at a distance, morally or spiritually; t enmity with; alienated.
(a.) Widely different in nature or quality; opposite in character.
(a.) The more distant of two; as, the far side (called also off side) of a horse, that is, the right side, or the one opposite to the rider when he mounts.
(adv.) To a great extent or distance of space; widely; as, we are separated far from each other.
(adv.) To a great distance in time from any point; remotely; as, he pushed his researches far into antiquity.
(adv.) In great part; as, the day is far spent.
(adv.) In a great proportion; by many degrees; very much; deeply; greatly.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
(2) As far as acrophase table is concerned for all enzymes and fractions the acrophase occurred during the night.
(3) A commensurate rise in both smoking and adenocarcinoma has occurred in the Far East where the incidence rate (40%) is twice that of North America or Europe.
(4) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(5) It contains 10,000 apartments so far, in blocks that might appear Soviet but for shades of blue, green and yellow.
(6) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
(7) Mary's grief, which lasts for about the first half of the two-hour premiere special, is the finest work of the series so far by Michelle Dockery.
(8) I hope I can play a major part in really highlighting the need for far more extensive family violence training within all organisations that deal with women and children, including the police and the department of human services,” Batty said.
(9) Reasons for non-acceptance do not indicate any major difficulties in the employment of such staff in general practice, at least as far as the patients are concerned.
(10) Little is so far known of the origin of this syndrome.
(11) Although there was already satisfaction in the development of dementia-friendly pharmacies and Pride in Practice, a new standard of excellence in healthcare for gay, lesbian and bisexual patients, the biggest achievement so far was the bringing together of a strategic partnership of 37 NHS, local government and social organisations.
(12) Unlikely, he laughs: "We were founded on the idea of distributing information as far as possible."
(13) US presidential election 2016: the state of the Republican race as the year begins Read more So far, the former secretary of state seems to be recovering well from self-inflicted wounds that dogged the start of her second, and most concerted, attempt for the White House.
(14) The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the problems which arise from simultaneously developing regulatory and competitive approaches to health care cost containment can be solved, if recognized, and that those problems deserve more systematic investigation than they have so far received.
(15) In general, air from the mediastinum far more often enters the left pleural cavity than the right one.
(16) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
(17) We demonstrated that while the protein was incorporated into the cell layer at 6, 24, 48, and 72 hr, a far greater amount was secreted into the media.
(18) Still, even as unknowable as this decision may be for him, as any decision is, really, he is far more qualified to understand his desires and goals that would inform that decision than anyone else is.
(19) They include the Francoist slogan "Arriba España" and the yoke-and-arrows symbol of the far right Falange, whose members killed the women.
(20) For each of the goals, some were far from complying.