(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.
Yesteryear
Definition:
(n.) The year last past; last year.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rapid advances in Information Technology in recent years have provided powerful computers and software that can be innovatively applied to create powerful pedagogical courseware that go beyond what precursors like the PLATO project could do on the mainframes of yesteryear.
(2) But, considering the high stakes involved in the gamble to permit suboptimal glucose regulation, it seems no longer rational to regard hyperglycemia as any more inevitable in the diabetic, than was "laudable pus" in the post-operative patient of yesteryear.
(3) Who knows, perhaps soon the concealed British penises of yesteryear might become proudly erect and engirdled with daisy chains wreathed by ardent lady lovers – just like in the novel Lady Chatterley's Lover , the ban on which had been overturned in 1960.
(4) So this is not just politics as usual but the politics of yesteryear tarted up and paraded as the only game in town.
(5) There, you wallow in yesteryear’s fabulosity, cast off by someone whose spending habits you’re morally outraged by but whose taste you can’t fault.
(6) Photograph: Joe Whittle for the Guardian He and his friends are the peaceful modern-day equivalent of the famous Great Plains horse warriors of yesteryear.
(7) Cameron has brought him in to review social mobility, and he owes no fealty to Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, denizens of the enemy camp of yesteryear.
(8) Yet his love for the mythic Britain of yesteryear pre-dates his starring role in the Brexit drama.
(9) The right wing of the party have got no vision so they are going back to yesteryear,” he told Sky News.
(10) James May's mission to bring the toys of yesteryear back to life brought BBC2 3.5 million viewers and a 15% share of the audience last night, Tuesday 27 October.
(11) It also has the advantage that it retains the formality of yesteryear.
(12) These days, the Christmas songs piped through shops and malls are the familiar classics of yesteryear.
(13) And although we wouldn't be British if we didn't sometimes hark back to the golden programmes of yesteryear, the truth is that programme for programme measured appreciation for TV today is at a high; that overall television viewing is up despite the many competing claims on people's attention; and that the public have lapped up the iPlayer and other catch-up and on-demand services because they know there are programmes of real quality and value out there.
(14) If CLG were to be dismantled and Pickles, a man of Conservative yesteryear, along with it, who is there left to upset?
(15) Yesteryear (Star Trek: The Animated Series) Season 1, episode 2.
(16) If you put it back where it should be, in Paris, it would be a more confident statement.” While this is true, the Galliano of 2015 is a humbler creature than the preening peacock of yesteryear who took his bows at Christian Dior shows dressed like a cross between Errol Flynn and Keith Richards.
(17) Some British readers might know it better as the theme from Our Tune on Simon Bates’ Radio 1 show of yesteryear.
(18) Some of the most difficult tasks for a chairman are (1) the prioritization of his or her responsibilities and activities, (2) representing both the university and the department when their goals appear to conflict, (3) recognizing that an autocratic chairman may administer the department with less difficulty and even appear to have more respect than a democratic chairman, (4) learning to expect less accolades and appreciation from faculty than the clinical chairmen of yesteryear, and (5) resisting the commitment of valuable time to negotiations or battles that cannot be won or to activities that do not benefit the department or the university.
(19) Oh and some of the super-powered kinks of yesteryear – the unstoppable headers, the volleys from the corner of the box – have been ironed out, apparently.
(20) Perhaps the most jarring aspect of this circus is the attempt to positively colour the failed wars of today with a poorly doctored history of the conflicts of yesteryear.