Many superheroes of bygone eras possess powers that exist in some way in the natural world or derive from real inventions.
And is it really the business of government to prop up the ancient memorials of a bygone era?
So once again Europe was simply recalling the glories of the ancient bygone age on behalf of the natives.
The steam locomotive evokes nostalgic memories of a bygone era with its glory and old age charm.
It is one of the most stunning buildings in the Clyde Valley and clearly belongs to a bygone age of sumptuous extravagance.
It has lent its support to Keighley Bus Museum's search for a permanent site to house its collection of bygone buses.
Moreover, English class society of a bygone era seems a relatively easy target.
The traditions and proceedings of the Commons are largely derived from a bygone age and none more so than it's adversarial nature.
There are plenty of houses and churches where you can soak up the carefully arranged atmosphere of bygone Bloomsbury.
Yes, this is a faux period piece, with extravagant costumes and peachy Technicolor colours from bygone movies.
The Street administration portrays the mounted unit as a relic of a bygone era.
The book contains many photographs of bygone times and also includes former electric tramways in the area.
Now the houses of these bygone families have become a focus for visiting tourists and history buffs.
They represent bygone ages and social changes that occurred round the world.
This is not your old English teacher's haiku, or some tired set of elegies from a bygone era.
Walt's obsolescent foreign policy is deeply rooted in the statism of a bygone era.
Sometimes it's better to go with the flow rather than try and emulate something from a bygone era.
To many people these days, photographs in black-and-white bring a sense of nostalgia, and stir memories of bygone times.
The jury has long favoured feel-good coming-of-age films, character studies with a moral, well-crafted films from a bygone time.
But his occasional stumbles should not erase his efforts to uphold the bygone standards of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite.
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It's antiquated and outdated, more of a reminder of a bygone era in college football.
The fragmented pieces of captured text are projected onto a blank white wall to create subtly shifting images suggestive of bygone worlds.
The film, then, works both as a paean to old age and a bittersweet look at a bygone era.
Its public health administrators have inherited many illiberal attitudes of the paternalistic bygone regime.
Idealizations of village and town life from bygone days are common in the speeches of politicians.
Airs of bygone times accompany farandoles around the flames over which the boldest leap with a single bound.
He asked residents to send in any photos, slides or images of the area from bygone days.
They've also co-opted the mocking, confrontational tone of bygone campus radicals in their tactics.
Each is a period evocation, a study of a bygone performance style, full of peculiar details of very precise flamboyance.
But as the romance of steam shows, the symbolic power of the iron horse remains to this day as an emblem of a bygone masculine world.
In bygone days many stoats were slaughtered to provide skins for ermine robes.
On the other had, the new gangstas, says Coates, are merely romanticizing a largely, and thankfully, bygone era.
Cabooses are another fast disappearing symbol of the railways, those that remain are a gaunt remnant of the former glory of a bygone era.
It is wonderful how Rose has developed this resource and has preserved the memory of these bygone days.
He shakes his head at the thought of these bygone decencies now fallen into desuetude.
In bygone days Yvonne would have been a prime candidate for a genteel, on-the-scales-off-again Weight Watchers campaign.
The extravaganza uses big band, spotlight glitz and dancing girls to capture the magic of a bygone time.
There should be no more braying at our opponents in the House of Commons like pinstriped pubescents from a bygone age.
And how greatly does that behavior deviate from bygone standards of greater constraint?
Their new comic effort concerns a family in a vaguely bygone New York City of brownstones, gypsy cabs, and gifted, unhappy children.
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Having now evolved into a mature form, the Asian way no longer appears as the glaring parody it once seemed in bygone eras.
In many ways it seems to hark back to a bygone age, with its wine, cigars and unashamed donnishness.
It hovers perilously close to cheesy at times, but it positively reeks of a bygone era.
At the back are many black and white pictures of bygone times in Holgate and Acomb, as well as maps showing the route of each walk.
The early morning sound of the bell reminds you of the ice-cream wallah of a bygone era.
This park speaks of a great bygone age, and now that the north is fast becoming the frappuccino quarter of the city it may yet thrive again.
Less restraint was shown in bygone days, when shark attacks sometimes inspired mass waves of indiscriminate killing.
Last week we journeyed to Bridlington and Scarborough to reminisce about bygone summer holidays.
His imagination was fevered, he thought of himself as a knight from a bygone era and moved around like one, riding a ragged horse.
Staying here is a journey into a bygone era, when life moved at a gentle pace and communion with the self was as easy as winking.
A chiming grandfather clock is all that is lacking to complete a scene redolent of a bygone era framed by stuffiness and reserve.
We know they are songs from a bygone age yet they somehow they seem to have such relevance today.
But thrust an historical document about bygone yesteryears down our memory lane and we can't get enough.
You have to admit that there's something fascinating about dinosaurs, those lumbering reptilian giants of a bygone age.
To most people, the old myths and legends are quaint reminders of a bygone and superstitious age, and have nothing much to tell us anymore.
Today's corporate globalism, promising to improve the lives of the downtrodden, resembles the communist globalism of a bygone era.
It is an archaic remainder of a bygone age which has no place in modern New Zealand.
This looking backward and preference for bygone days involved more than nostalgic or homesick longings.
Naturally, one of the distinct pleasures of meeting her is tapping her for anecdotes of this bygone era.
Though he showed flashes of the old brilliance, fashionable opinion increasingly considered him obsolete, a back number from a bygone era.
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I spent a few minutes in the abbey museum, admiring high-relief tomb carvings of bygone Scots kings and chieftains in full battle gear.
You also console yourself with the knowledge that these are historical artefacts from a bygone era.
Compared to the other semi-finalists here, the Italians were criticised for representing a throwback to a bygone, defensive mentality.
In those buried and bygone days, it was an affront and an offense to join with separatists to defeat a corrupt government.
In the great medieval households of bygone days the Seneschal was in charge of the castle, estate or home.
This is a show that, despite its bygone English rural setting, is without nostalgia or sentimentality.
It was like a scene from a bygone era one of Bexley's busiest roads and not a vehicle in sight.
With his bow-tied, moustachioed, immaculate turnout he seemed a figure from a bygone age.
If you're looking for a fun atmosphere, this chain brings patrons back the bygone days of soda jerks and jukeboxes.
For some, the minute attention to nuances of bygone manners makes her simple romances vapidly parochial.
The beach is deserted but for a stubborn few, and this Soviet edifice is now but a window to a bygone era.
I see something of several male friends from those bygone days and they too report that they never hear from their old girlfriends.
The Colonel is a self-fashioned sleuth who seems to belong to a bygone era.
Was he slipping into the shadows and assuming the more secretive posture of spymasters from a bygone era?
Tourists would marvel at the elegant ingenuity of a bygone age.
I was thinking about palindromes today as well, but for the rather more mundane reason that they feature in a question for a bygone DSA example class.
The poet also dreams nostalgically of bygone years and of lost childhood.
But, with the passing of years, gondolas on Windermere, Coniston, and Ullswater and steam trains to Lakeside have come to symbolize a bygone age of tranquillity.
To watch Waugh bat is to be reminded of a bygone era in Australian cricket, a time when they were made to graft for every run and sweat for every victory.
The early part of the 1990s, when monarchism dared not speak its name and supporters of the Crown felt as though they were a beleaguered minority, seems like a bygone age.
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Comparison with the structures of bygone centuries can prove useful, because the format of anthem books and antiphonaries is very similar to that of bound newspapers.
In any event, the development of pharmacological drugs and community-based programs causes laws on commitment to a hospital to be regarded as archaic vestiges of a bygone era.
People travelled from all corners of Munster to see a magnificent display of vintage machinery, threshing, haymaking and old farm skills of bygone days.
The tyranny associated by Renaissance humanists with the age of chivalric knights and with the knight figure caused romances that heroize the bygone age to fall into disfavor.
Looking back, I suppose it was a relic from a bygone age even then.
The chandeliers, the pianist playing Cole Porter numbers, and just the grandness of the room all add to the feeling that somehow you have been transported into a bygone age.
He spoke about how certain people are heroes but they are all bygone.
Almost every night, in those happy, bygone days, you could catch an Ingmar Bergman movie, for a buck.
Today the structures defy time to tell the story of gallantry, courage and tragedy of the bygone era and its story of survival in the harsh Thar Dessert.
A decade later the vision would be modified to reflect the glories of a bygone era, and the tragedies of interrupted lives and unfulfilled destinies.
Ever since the bygone days of youth, pork has gone hand in hand with applesauce.
Blues music is often treated like a museum piece, a relic from a bygone day, but this band will make you want to get up and dance.
Nostalgia for a bygone era is understandable, especially if the benefits of subsequent positive changes are overlooked and any new detriments emphasised.
Between April and October, the town crier issues a daily proclamation at the High Cross, where in bygone times you would have found bear-baiting, stocks and a whipping post.
The French department used an audiovisual course based around pre-recorded open reel tapes and a stills projector, another electrical gadget from a bygone age.
If you thought that puns, acrostics, charades, et cetera were quaint relics from a bygone era, then think again as Robert Dessaix brings us up to date on Word Games.
The story of whaling in Eden is much more than just a story about a bygone industry or even a story about an amazing partnership between man and beast.
For some of us older inhabitants of the press gallery it brings back a bygone age, as surely as an Everly Brothers record, a milk bar, or the theme to Take It From Here.
For one thing, the people who fought reflect a bygone America demographically.
Some nostalgically invoked a glorious industrial past or the bygone British Empire to cope with their newfound personal economic insecurity.
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If Ramo's nihilistic vision of the future holds true, the nonresilient will become the wreckage of bygone civilizations.
Using artistic structures of a bygone time is an indication of a dialogistic attitude toward that past.
The outsized personalities of that time are also of a bygone era.
Three years on, doesn't it already feel like a leftover from a bygone era?
And now, dig into this profile of Royko, a giant from a bygone time.
The reenactment took place on the College Green, delighting visitors with an array of sounds, smells and sights from a bygone era.
Antibiotics have made cardiac valve surgery for rheumatic fever a bygone and the hemigastrectomy and vagotomy for duodenal ulcer a rarity.
Hospitals retrenched in the '30s while the general practitioners retroceded into a bygone era.
The Valley also has a number of conserved mills and structures from bygone ages and is the only place in Wales to have seven scheduled ancient monuments.
It is easy to romanticise about the loss of this bygone era.
A renegade timelord from the future who liked to meddle with history? If this were so, perhaps he really had talked with Christ and the kings of bygone days.
Rather than sit around her empty nest reminiscing about bygone days, she converted her sons' bedroom into an office and launched an at-home business.
Beamish Museum provided boolers along with Shove Ha'penny and Nine Men's Morris boards for the children to learn how youngsters occupied themselves in bygone times.
The tea dances are reviving the music and dancing of a bygone era and couples who waltzed away their youths are now flocking back to the dancefloor with old friends and new.
Near by he could see the thicket of raspberry canes, growing tall and close like a tropical jungle, in whose shadow he had played with the Boy on bygone mornings.

In bygone times the miracle play formed an important feature in the religious life of England.
Between them lies the Lake of Titicaca, the centre of bygone Peruvian civilisation.
The children were in the habit of calling each other by that means in bygone years.
In this oncidium, then, we have evidently a record of many bygone processes.
How clearly and how sharply have all these bygone events been stamped upon my memory!
After the fashion of great actors of a bygone generation, he wore a soft black felt hat, dinged in the crown from front to rear.
They are the draff and offal of a bygone age, and we will not have them obtruded here.
Italy, on the other hand, had for her task the reabsorption of a bygone culture.
To evoking the instincts of bygone ages, which have not been preserved by fossilization?
It is well justified to repeat that some of the most enlightened minds overlook the pragmatics of bygone practice.
The suggestion was no more than a suggestion in the mind of the watcher of all these bygone scenes.
That is contrary to the observation of philosophers of bygone days.
He could still hear the laughter of the bygone Salon of the Rejected.
With a soft reminiscent sigh suggestive of bygone joys that may be tasted in their freshness but once.
At the junction of Bromsgrove Road and Illey Lane a plaque has been erected as a reminder of the bygone Dowery Dell Viaduct.
But he failed to impose upon the Colonel, and was even far from impressing him with this trumped-up knowledge of bygone days.
The peaceful face reflected somewhat of peace and healing into his own spirit, and his thoughts wandered away to bygone times and dreamy memories.
There are no words to describe her save the old ones that have served so often to picture the bygone heroine of romance and the fair lady of our dreams.
It is in every way a wildly and picturesquely decorated house, and brimful of interest as a reflection of the character and tastes of that rude bygone time.

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