epoch

• What I admire most about his singing in that movie is that he does not just sound "Broadwayish", but he sings in the style of the epoch, which is very different from the modern one, and that he is excellent at it. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
• But one of the curious phenomena of the epoch was the peasant writer Iván Tikhonóvitch Posóshkoff (born about 1670), a well-to-do, even a rich, man for those days, very well read, and imbued with the spirit of reform. —  A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections
• The fault of the epoch is the absence of meditativeness. —  Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women
• Our personal interest in the circumstances which immediately surround us produces on them for us the magnifying effect of a microscope: and our principal reason for thinking that our epoch is more extraordinary than others, is for the most part that we are living in our own epoch, and have not lived in others. —  The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism
• The arts at this epoch were already on the decline, and they stripped the past to honour new exploits. —  Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy

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