| Past actions and characters are determinate because of their very pastness. |
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| It calls up the seeming paradox of writing a history, an account of pastness, of things that are of the relative present. |
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| There is a patina of pastness and folkloric authenticity that pervades the marketplace. |
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| Any event must have all three properties, pastness, presentness and futurity, but this is a contradiction. |
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| This awareness of loss and separation, of the irrecoverable pastness of the past, is what compelled Larkin to write poetry. |
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| This change requires us to place futurity, rather than pastness, at the heart of our thinking about culture. |
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| The nostalgic gaze sacralizes concepts, objects, forms, and states from the past and reproduces them in a present that simulates and commodifies their pastness. |
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| It spelled out his main concerns: the otherness of the Bible's cultural milieu compared with our own, the uncertainty of our knowledge of Jesus, the pastness of the past. |
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| Take Mr. Warren's formulation that 'this is the way that the pain of the past in its pastness is converted to the future tense of joy.' Falstaff was a character who had done everything. |
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| But the stillness of Arbus's still reins in the movingness of the movie, bringing it back to earth, to the pensiveness and the irremediable pastness of the photograph. |
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