Pasts

So now the two franchises are meeting in the postseason for the first time since, and the contrast between their pasts is an easy story line. ❋ Mike Sielski (2010)

Early on, one of the characters mentions her fondness for going into a movie when it's halfway through, because speculating on peoples 'pasts is more interesting than imagining their futures, and likewise the book proceeds backwards, beginning shortly after the war and then going back to two points in the midst of it. ❋ Roger Sutton (2006)

To an even greater extent than in the previous chapter, my methodology for exploring the historical meanings of women's tattoos combines oral history with the insights of feminist archaeologists, particularly those who have tried to tease out the less easily accessible byways of women's pasts from the tracks of social and spatial relationships embedded in feminine material culture. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Confronting those pasts is a bleak present threatening to swallow the future within it: "Thou hast been, shall be, art, alone." ❋ Unknown (2003)

Still on the trail of the people responsible for Connor Hawke’s condition — and subsequent disappearance — Green Arrow and Black Canary face their uncertain pasts†¦ and a future of uncertainty! ❋ Unknown (2009)

In fact, I’m certain that everything you said about these folks’ pasts is nothing but pure fantasy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

By oligarchs and comrades on the inside who were high in authority, place had been made for us, we were in possession of all necessary documents, and our pasts were accounted for. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This is a nation of immigrants not only because people have come here from many places and many walks of life, but also because people are supposed to be welcome here regardless of where they came from, and should they choose to celebrate their heritage, they can, if they choose to forget their pasts, that is also acceptable. ❋ MJR Montoya (2010)

I always knew I was adopted, and I was so well loved, and honestly, I never really thought of it until . . . until one day I read something about how we are all our past, and our pasts are our present, and our present is our future. . . ❋ Julia London (2010)

Individually, the brain regions that make up that network have long been recognized as active when people recall their pasts, project themselves into future scenarios, impute motives and feelings to other people, and weigh their personal values. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Both Rose and Miaow have the kind of pasts that, while common enough in Thailand, are almost impossible for someone in the U. ❋ Bill Crider (2010)

[Transcribers note 1: typo fixed, changed from 'pasts' to 'parts'] ❋ Various (N/A)

They understood each other, how both of their pasts influenced the kind of people they were now. ❋ Lo Bosworth (2011)

FROM TIME TO TIME, you hear on the news about people—usually men, but occasionally a woman—who suddenly abandoned their lives, as cleanly and abruptly as if they took a pair of scissors and snipped away their pasts. ❋ Sarah Pekkanen (2011)

Decades after Nazi armies began their march of conquest and genocide, the German "children of the war" ­have begun to confront their parents' pasts. ❋ Konrad Jarausch (2011)

Many groups and races faced hardships, injustice and tragedies in their pasts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

However imperfect the categories may be (particularly in light of increasing modern genetic and geographic mixing), clearly there persistent bundles of traits which reflect our different evolutionary pasts, and to deny this is itself unscientific. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Every collection is a theater of memories, a dramatization and a mise-en-scéne of personal and collective pasts, of a remembered childhood and of remembrance after death. ❋ Mira Bartók (2011)