How To Use Futurity In A Sentence

  • ‘We don't have a lot of futurities down in our area, but she did place in a futurity last year,’ she said.
  • Yet pastness and futurity, he argued, are inherently contradictory; so nothing in reality can correspond to them.
  • Reality is airbrushed and we're given promises of fabulous, mythical oases of futurity.
  • In 2001, he competed at the futurity with broken ribs and a punctured lung.
  • Security is the superposition of one moment upon the next in a serial form for the sake of a calculated futurity (expectation).
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  • 1962 Hintikka proposed a tense-logical construal of his possible worlds semantics, maintaining that ˜if we do not want to tie our logic to old-fashioned physics, we are undoubtedly wiser if we ¦ no longer require that the alternativeness relation (in this case it could perhaps be more appropriately termed “futurity relation”) effect a linear ordering™ (1963: 76). The Sun Is Not
  • This is a novel in which characters turn to one another and say things like ‘I suppose all this footslogging seems primitive to you, with your flying machines and thinking boxes, the marvellous war-making devilry of futurity!’ Archive 2010-01-01
  • It occurred to her that this was the pleasure of a man who scorned to assume more than the briefest fragment of futurity. THE ONLY GAME
  • Instead it enacts a movement from future to past that hints towards a futurity entirely removed from linear temporality.
  • But presumption fails to honor this distinction, and therefore "fails to accept the reality of the futurity and 'arduousness' that characterize" our journey in and toward O. One Cʘsmos
  • But we must remember that the dull vision of mortal man cannot pierce the veil of futurity, which is as crystal to the all-beholding eye of the First The Skylark of Space
  • Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.
  • Glidemaster, trained by Blair Burgess, won the Hambletonian in stakes-record time and added the Kentucky Futurity and Yonkers Trot to sweep the Triple Crown. Glidemaster chosen 2006 harness racing Horse of the Year
  • To those who have preceded me in the study of the posthistoric world, and particularly to those collectors-too numerous to name here - who have permitted me to examine artifacts surviving so many centuries of futurity, and most especially to those who have allowed me to visit and photograph the era's few extant buildings, I am truly grateful. The Shadow of the Torturer
  • The last sentence, however, abruptly changes the futurity of the goals and positions them as long-established truths.
  • By entering this nothingness, which is the constitutive risk of already dwelling on the earth - call it the burden of consciousness or the task of history - we take up the needfulness of futurity itself.
  • In the midst of an eloquent and impassioned remonstrance with the Sceptic who, even when overwhelmed by the disasters of a present world, renounces all trust in futurity, she weaves some touching reflections upon a catastrophe, the remembrance of which will ever fall with surpassing sadness upon the spirit of a great people. A Review of 'The Sceptic; a Poem'
  • When men have once allowed themselves to think no more of what is to befall them after life, they readily lapse into that complete and brutal indifference to futurity, which is but too conformable to some propensities of mankind. Democracy in America, volume 2
  • Any event must have all three properties, pastness, presentness and futurity, but this is a contradiction.
  • During the late 90s in California, the web was futurity - in a very uncomplicated, boosterish way.
  • It is ‘the democracy to come’ not in terms of futurity, but in terms of instability; that is, it is structurally performative.
  • Reply Obj. 3: Hope implies a certain defect, namely the futurity of happiness, which ceases when happiness is present: whereas fear implies a natural defect in a creature, in so far as it is infinitely distant from God, and this defect will remain even in heaven. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
  • As Favaro noted, on the second line Galileo had first written 15 February, then changed it to the 16th - an initial error, we may conjecture, as caused confusion in futurity.
  • But the protection which the Paduan Doctor received from some friends of interest and consequence, enabled him to set these imputations at defiance, and to assume, even in the city of Edinburgh, famed as it was for abhorrence of witches and necromancers, the dangerous character of an expounder of futurity. My Aunt Margaret's Mirror
  • It is simply not right that a space program be merely a bauble of a billionaire when all of futurity beckons.
  • I am the celestial Spirit to whom eternal futurity is known. Selections from _The Last Man_
  • As though pursuing the serpentine river that in a Claudean painting unifies the diminutive human foreground with its vast skies, we now follow this "wanderer Man" into the "boundless void" of "futurity" -- or, in more painful moments, back into this human dilemma: "when affliction bade his spirit bleed,/If 'twere a Father's love or Tyrant's wrath decreed? Hemans, Heber, and _Superstition and Revelation_
  • We can so far take a prophetic glance into futurity as to foretell that it will be the common and widely-spread species, belonging to the larger and dominant groups, which will ultimately prevail and procreate new and dominant species.
  • He spoke of a new era that was dawning upon the world; an era that would link soul to soul, and the present life to what we call futurity, with a closeness that should finally convert both worlds into one great, mutually conscious brotherhood. The Blithedale Romance
  • Freedom from the old, freedom from aesthetic determination and the law of Rowley, depends upon an impossible futurity.
  • On the third point: hope implies a defect, namely the futurity of blessedness, which will cease when blessedness is present. Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas
  • The danger is of developing hibernation strategies which envisage a futurity whose solace is retrospective.
  • I've been reading Elizabeth Grosz on sensation and futurity: "There is an involuted and oblique relation between the energies of sexual selection...the attraction to and possible attainment of sexual (though not necessarily copulative) partners—human and otherwise—and the forces and energies of artistic production and consumption" (from *Chaos, Territory, Art*). Trauma
  • Reality is airbrushed and we're given promises of fabulous, mythical oases of futurity.
  • From reticence he said nothing of the ikon, the Madonna of Futurity. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • Former claimer Trailthefox became a graded-stakes winner on Saturday, cruising to a victory over Starbury in the Arlington-Washington Futurity.
  • Expectation is a calculus of futurity, an extrapolation of narrativised past events into the future.
  • They realized that, whether a man is most swayed by the one or the other, what he must most depend upon and desire, is a knowledge of futurity.
  • The sport was growing here in numbers, but many cutters did not want to travel all the way to Texas to compete in a first-rate futurity.
  • Like an equine futurity, the bulls were judged on their performance, even though most of the time the rider didn't make the 8-second buzzer.
  • There is enough of sorrow in this world, without looking into futurity for it.
  • No part - no part - of that liability in any way relates, on the evidence - it has not been suggested that it relates on the evidence - to any advantage flowing from the futurity of discharge.
  • Often the anxiety seems concealed under a discourse of futurity, in which attention is given to what life online might become - with contradictions deleted - rather than giving attention to what actually happens or has happened.
  • Yet pastness and futurity, he argued, are inherently contradictory; so nothing in reality can correspond to them.
  • At that point it's a conceptual lyrical moment where the poem is becoming aware, or I am becoming aware of the piece at that point as having to do with futurity.
  • If there is some take on that side, then there may be able to be some more give on mine. I was struck by the concept of futurity in both your poetry and criticism.
  • Is the Place a reservoir of history, or a well of futurity?
  • Asleep here are those who had sacrificed the life of this world for the life of futurity.
  • The second possibility was a fixed date - some date in futurity, which could have been the commencement date.
  • Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.
  • The futurity of God's self-naming- ‘I shall be what I shall be’ leads to the profound reflection that redemption is an episodic phenomenon.
  • The revelation of the secrets of futurity is sweet to one at first, but bitter and distasteful to our natural man, when we learn the cross which is to be borne before the crown shall be won. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Created over 30 years ago to perpetuate the traditional progression of training the California Vaquero Bridle Horse, the futurity has a special mystique.
  • As You Like It is perhaps ideal for such treatment, since in that play the attempt to marry wilfulness and futurity is the outcome of a comic action of forced reconcilement.
  • All phenomena are embedded in the wheel of futurity or the kaal chakra, and they are both future tools that shape our present as wells as an intrinsic part of the present. The Times of India
  • There would be no offspring to carry this face into futurity. SACRAMENT
  • The perceiving individual's terminal attitudes constitute an anticipatory contact experience in which the futurity of distant objects is reduced to an abstract contemporaneity.
  • Word spread in the Southwest about the Augusta Futurity's tight organization and added prize money.
  • Its great to go into a room somewhere and listen to all of this sound, sound that is full of futurity, sound that is presented as an event of the mind rather than the body - where it will take us, we shall see.
  • Wilkinson's piece is a consummate attempt to rise to the challenge of the embarrassment of the manifesto, with a hesitation and a promise for futurity in what he calls a ‘superversive manifesto’.
  • To the extent that apocalyptic eschatology is retained in the New Testament this mythological conception has the existential meaning of representing futurity, that is, the charismatic, or the character of grace of God's liberating word: new life fulfills itself solely in the acceptance of the “freedom of the children of God.” ESCHATOLOGY
  • What we're referring to is a futurity, a contest featuring young livestock.
  • Reality is airbrushed and we're given promises of fabulous, mythical oases of futurity.
  • This chapter announces the promising futurity of ‘Unnatural Acts and the Next Acts.’

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