The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique or issue,' was popularized in American culture by 'The Wizard of Oz.'
I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.
Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests.
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this.
I did projects on Champlain coming up the St. Lawrence River and on Henry Hudson cast adrift in the bay that now bears his name. And I read dozens of historical novels: Rosemary Sutcliff on Roman Britain and G. A. Henty on British heroes, though my all-time favourite was Ronald Welch's 'Knight Crusader.'
Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
Editorial outfits are now advertising agencies.
In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.
Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.
Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.
He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
During the 19th century, Britain fought two wars in unsuccessful attempts to subjugate the Afghans. When Britain finally drew a border between India and Afghanistan in 1893, Pashtun tribes in southern Afghanistan were cut off from related tribes across the border in what was then India and is now Pakistan.
We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.
Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
Now that I've experienced ageism, I don't regard it as a bad thing. It's been a transition to something more exciting and maybe edgier.
The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.
The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans.
We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.
I always knew I was a star And now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me.
