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now and forgotten
If Felix was still wearing the hat and carrying the horn because he'd forgotten about them, he now remembered.
The war found him much too early, and its perils -- and especially its awful boredom -- were best forgotten in horseplay and elaborate practical jokes, and even now Doc had never found any stabilizing, sobering influence.
: The old tunnel, that used to lie there under ground, a passage of Acheron-like solemnity and darkness, now all closed and filled up, and soon to be utterly forgotten, with all its reminiscences ; however, there will, for a few years yet be many dear ones, to not a few Brooklynites, New Yorkers, and promiscuous crowds besides.
His poems were highly regarded in his day, but are now mostly forgotten.
When Seamus Heaney gave an Oxford lecture on the poet he opened by addressing the assembly, " Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry ", querying how ' Thomas the Poet ' is one of his forgotten attributes.
* " Our eyes see very little and very badly – so people dreamed up the microscope to let them see invisible phenomena ; they invented the telescope ... now they have perfected the cinecamera to penetrate more deeply into the visible world, to explore and record visual phenomena so that what is happening now, which will have to be taken account of in the future, is not forgotten.
Jacques Tourneur had made over thirty Hollywood Bs ( a few now highly regarded, most completely forgotten ) before directing the A-level Out of the Past, described by scholar Robert Ottoson as " the ne plus ultra of forties film noir ".
Most Ringworld societies have forgotten they live on an artificial structure, and now attribute the phenomena of their world to divine power.
They concentrate on the voice now and have forgotten how to act.
The embarrassment at Metz ( 1744 ) now largely forgotten, the king was at the peak of his popularity.
Krafft-Ebing ’ s conclusions about homosexuality are now largely forgotten, partly because Sigmund Freud ’ s theories were more interesting to physicians ( who considered homosexuality to be a psychological problem ) and partly because he incurred the enmity of the Austrian Catholic Church when he psychologically associated martyrdom ( a desire for sanctity ) with hysteria and masochism.
Fëanor was his greatest pupil, and from him learned to make gems through craftsmanship that is now forgotten.
Hentz's 1854 novel, widely-read at the time but now largely forgotten, offers a defense of slavery as seen through the eyes of a northern woman — the daughter of an abolitionist, no less — who marries a southern slave owner.
When he regains consciousness, his past memory is restored, but his life with Paula is now forgotten.
Core memory was part of a family of related technologies, now largely forgotten, which exploited the magnetic properties of materials to perform switching and amplification.
* Hamilton – the original county seat of Butte County, this city has long been forgotten ; the only reminder of it is now an overgrown cemetery.
One of the most famous pieces of 19th-century salon music was the " Fifth Nocturne " of Ignace Leybach, who is now otherwise mostly forgotten.
" Whitfield declared, " I say to the village of Bath, village you shall remain, now and forever, forgotten by men and nations until such time as it pleases God to turn the light of His countenance again upon you.
In 2005 an opportunity to commemorate the centenary was missed and the incident is now largely forgotten.
Wilde's plays, in particular, stand apart from the many now forgotten plays of Victorian times and have a much closer relationship to those of the Edwardian dramatists such as Irishman George Bernard Shaw and Norwegian Henrik Ibsen.
They had already ceased to speak and forgotten their own tongue, and now used Sindarin rather than Adûnaic.
Between 1753 and 1924, The Country Wife was considered too outrageous to be performed at all and was replaced on the stage by David Garrick's cleaned-up and bland version The Country Girl, now a forgotten curiosity.
For example, suppose A steals from B, what B had previously bought in good faith from C, which C had earlier stolen from D, which had been an heirloom of D's family for generations, but had originally been stolen centuries earlier ( though this fact is now forgotten by all ) from E. Here A has the possession, B has an apparent right of possession ( as evidenced by the purchase ), D has the absolute right of possession ( being the best claim that can be proven ), and the heirs of E, if they knew it, have the right of property, which they cannot prove.

now and significance
Just as it is possible to exaggerate the drawing power of the new tenure practices, it is also possible to exaggerate the significance of the now relatively adequate salaries paid by major Catholic institutions.
But, up to now, no one has attempted to analyze its inherent mathematical properties, or the numerical significance of its numbers -- singly or in combination -- and then tried to consider these in the light of Old Chinese cosmological concepts.
Abacá fiber was once used primarily for rope, but this application is now of minor significance.
In early literature, before the significance of impact cratering was widely recognised, the terms cryptoexplosion or cryptovolcanic structure were often used to describe what are now recognised as impact-related features on Earth.
The Crest Theatre is now listed in the NSW State Heritage Register as being of " State significance ", being one of the few cinemas built in Australia in the 1940s.
The combination of hushed reverence, chromatic harmonies and sexualized imagery in Richard Wagner's late opera Parsifal gave new significance to the grail theme, for the first time associating the grail – now periodically producing blood – directly with female fertility.
The 1907 Catholic Encyclopedia wrote, " From ancient times until the nineteenth century the port of Monaco was among the most important of the French Mediterranean coast, but now it has lost all commercial significance.
A major block to understanding their significance was the importance attached by 19th-century biologists to the apparent blending of inherited traits in the overall appearance of the progeny, now known to be due to multigene interactions, in contrast to the organ-specific binary characters studied by Mendel.
Historical revisionists …“ seem to have been given a collective task in nation's cultural development, the full significance of which is emerging only now: to redefine nation ’ s status in a changing world .” History is a tool that contributes to the shaping of national identity, cultures, and memories.
Some verlan words, which are now well incorporated in common French language, have taken on their own significance, or at least certain connotations that have changed their meaning.
While there is still some debate about the historical significance of the style to art in general, Rococo is now widely recognized as a major period in the development of European art.
The real significance of the election was that the Liberals-whom Labour had displaced as the second largest political party in 1922-were now clearly a minor party.
( The distinction between " Commoners " and " Houses " is now of purely sporting significance ( see Winchester College Football ), and " a Commoner " now means any pupil who is not a scholar.
The significance of the right hand prints at Gulgurn Manja is now unknown.
To Uthman, the conquest of Mecca and Ta ’ if were of particular significance, as he had considerable property in both cities, and he could now profitably develop them.
They found evidence for a signal showing an excess extinction rate with a 27-million-year periodicity, now going back 500 million years, and at a much higher statistical significance than in the older work.
The significance of quarter days is now limited, although leasehold payments and rents for land and premises in England are often still due on the old English quarter days.
US 30 is now a continuous four lane highway in this part of Ohio that by-passes Beaverdam but the significance of the junction as a major fuel stop has not been diminished.
Aguilar, now quite fluent in Yucatec Maya as well as some other indigenous languages, would prove to be a valuable asset for Cortés as a translator, a skill of particular significance to the later conquest of the Aztec Empire which would be the end result of Cortés ' expedition.
In 1977, the building ( now known as the Seipsville Inn ) was added to the National Register of Historic Places due to the significance of its architecture and engineering.
Over the years, its significance has grown in stature to the point that it is now commonly listed among the greatest video games of all time.
Many of the mitzvot cannot be observed now, following the destruction of the Second Temple, although they still retain religious significance.
With emotion still in his voice and eyes watering, Cronkite once again recapped the events after collecting himself, incorporating some wire photos of the visit and explaining the significance of the pictures now that Kennedy was dead.

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