former age
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As in a flickering newsreel from a former age, complex events are reduced to symbolic emblems of right and wrong.
From The Guardian • Jun. 18, 2019
Leonard was, in many ways, both a link to a former age of radio and an upbeat host very much in tune with the changing face of the medium in the 1980s and '90s.
From Chicago Tribune • Sep. 5, 2014
Immigrants, claim Chua and Rubenfeld, are wary of "an excessively permissive American culture"--the bogeyman that haunts the dreams of so many who see the U.S. as losing the vigor of a former age.
From Time • Jan. 28, 2014
Matt Thorne in the Independent continued the modernist theme pointing out that ranges from 1918 to 2010, "but Self writes more in the manner of a writer from the former age than the latter".
From The Guardian • Aug. 24, 2012
Dickens himself was fond enough of the unusual, and doubtless he made good use of those bygones of a former age, which seemed best to suit his purpose.
From Dickens' London by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)
