Example Sentences

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She began to imagine a piece with layered temporalities, one that would hark back to the former natural abundance of New York, critique contemporary inequities and confront the future.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2022

Kusama had intended to cast a younger actress in the film, which would have made straddling the story’s two temporalities easier, but she could not pass up the opportunity to work with Kidman.

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2018

Erpenbeck was born in East Berlin, in 1967; herself a witness to some fairly turbulent European history, she is drawn to long perspectives and political temporalities.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 4, 2016

It was an odd sensation, as if the two distinct temporalities had blended into one.

From Slate • Jul. 27, 2014

John caused the convent to elect the bishop of Norwich, and gave him the temporalities, and all the parties appealed to Innocent III.

From The English Church in the Middle Ages by Hunt, William