| 单词 | present tense |
| 例句 | The present tense is moving forward, discarding concept after concept, and I am off to the side somewhere, fiddling with egg tempera and flat surfaces, as if the twentieth century has never happened. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Past tense. Maybe I can make it present tense again.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “I love you present tense,” I whispered, and then put my hand on the middle of his chest and said, “It’s okay, Gus. It’s okay. It is. It’s okay, you hear me?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z In the present tense, might is used rather than may to describe an iffier situation. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The second principle is that backshifting is not mandatory, which means that violating the sequence-of-tense rules and keeping the reported content in the present tense is not always an error. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z She wasn’t even a person anymore, just flesh rotting, but I loved her present tense. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The foxes of the Arctic, scavengers that they were, had picked up some language, but their brains were so formed that they could only understand statements in the present tense. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z We speak of them in the present tense, as if we still know them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But fear best thrives in the present tense. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z When the if side of the scale is in the present tense, the other side calls for will. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z August 21 Second Rule Add an s to verbs acted by one person in the present tense, even if there’s already an s sound nearby. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “I’m noting the present tense. Letters being letters.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I mean, I can even try to define is if I want, because equality isn’t really working in the present tense, is it? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z What I am paid to do is to observe him in a rigorous present tense, as a subject dynamically inhabiting a scene, as a phenomenon of study. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She still speaks of it in the present tense. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Each morning I took Ancient Greek from Annabeth, and we talked about the gods and goddesses in the present tense, which was kind of weird. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z If you’re scared of both the past and the future, having a dismal record in the former and no ideas for the latter, you can always just wallow in the present tense of demonstrative rhetoric. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Dustin Reid, who produced a Red Hot Master Mix tribute album to Russell, in 2014, and who has Russell’s initials tattooed on his arm, speaks of the musician in the present tense. The Word-of-Mouth Resurgence of Arthur Russell 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z In the course of a 70-minute phone call, he talked warmly about Michael, sometimes referring to him in the present tense, and joked about his own modest recording career. George Michael Preferred Music to Fame. The Doc He Made Does, Too. 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z I occasionally wished “Too Bright to See” was in something other than the earnest first-person present tense that so litters contemporary books for children, but this is a small cavil. This Coming-of-Age Novel Features a Girl on the Cusp of Manhood 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Alongside the strained pathetic fallacies, you'll notice that the above also carries the whiff of creative writing course in that modish present tense. Not the Booker prize: Advice for Strays 2010-09-27T12:49:00Z Tomboy doesn’t feel present tense to me at all. Where Have All the Tomboys Gone? 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z The immediacy of the present tense, coupled with such a compelling storyline, works to dispel resistance to the notion of a novel narrated by a preschooler. Room by Emma Donoghue and Forgetting Zoe by Ray Robinson 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z Just like the present tense, the hand-held camera is an expressive device whose expressive power is being drained away by making it the only way of shooting a film. Philip Pullman calls time on the present tense 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z As a rule, we use the present tense when writing about fiction: Characters exist in the eternal now, or that’s the idea. ‘The Many Saints of Newark’ Review: The Best Really Is Over 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z That’s presumably a way of avoiding hindsight and keeping in the present tense. Ken Burns on America: 'We're a strange and complicated people' 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Her main idea is that he existed in a "permanent present tense", or that he "lived in the moment", in the way that devotees of transcendental meditation aspire to. Permanent Present Tense: The man with no memory, and what he taught the world by Suzanne Corkin – review 2013-06-27T07:00:18Z Dickens, the greatest breaker of all rules about writing correctly, was probably the first novelist in English to use the historic present tense in a systematic way. A history of the present 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z She'll be dead in three weeks but till then, verbs are present tense. When your friend is dying, it's OK to steal her scarves 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z Most jarringly, the sense of doom hanging over the road is clumsily reinforced by interjections of present tense narrative that sit uneasily with the rest of the book. Not the Booker prize: Deloume Road by Matthew Hooton 2010-09-21T11:34:00Z It no longer felt tenable — no longer felt tolerable — to create a story in our present tense that didn’t acknowledge the singular, shared agony of that day. Perspective | How 9/11 altered the fiction landscape in 13 novels 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z Despite the play’s old-fashioned structure and sentimentality, as we watch Mr. Leon’s production, we feel it is happening in the present tense, in our own world of recessionary anxieties. Theater Review: ‘Raisin in the Sun’ Brings Denzel Washington Back to Broadway 2014-04-04T02:00:14Z Here he is recreating his feelings as a 5-year-old, but he relies on the present tense throughout the book, trying to summon the naïveté of earlier times. Books of The Times: He?s Handsome. (You Noticed?) but Not Just. 2011-04-20T18:01:03Z Mr. Haring’s story is recounted in the present tense, as though the artist is Mr. Doonan’s friend or roommate. Simon Doonan Has Been Keeping Busy 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z But, in the same breath, what better tribute can we pay him than that his greatest creation, Dame Edna Everage, is forever in present tense? Perspective | With devastating quips, Dame Edna foretold a vacuous era of fame 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z The story’s ending moves into the present tense. Catherine Lacey on Self-Inflicted Wounds 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z The Siege is narrated mostly in the present tense, living and dying through the first winter of the two-and-a-half-year German siege of Leningrad. The Siege by Helen Dunmore 2011-02-12T00:05:20Z As the perspective seems to slip inside the reflections of Saint Laurent, the story exists as both a present tense and a memory. How 'Saint Laurent' fashions a film odyssey for a designer who changed how women dress 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z They can only break the machine generating it, awakening a better future . . . in the present tense. The best new "Black Mirror" episode is a Netflix self-own that plays out our current AI nightmare 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z On an album so acutely concerned with the present tense, it suggests that the past isn’t something to flee. New Music: New Albums by Laura Marling, Terence Blanchard, Frankie J and Cecile McLorin Salvant 2013-05-27T21:56:34Z The Babble essay is written in the present tense, which is a bit deceptive since the wedding took place over a year ago. Motherlode: A (Very) Pregnant Bride 2011-03-01T17:49:25Z The timeline provided in the notes coyly states, in the present tense, that he “limits his activities” during the war years, though finds himself “obliged to participate in certain official events.” A Conductor’s Impossible Legacy 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z That’s the thing that made me sit up and pay attention, because people who can’t imagine their city in present tense are already in trouble.” What happens when factory jobs disappear? Playwright Lynn Nottage investigates in 'Sweat' 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Such questions linger in many people’s minds, but Lloyd’s slip into the present tense showed that Welles still casts an immense shadow. The Magnificent Memory of Norman Lloyd 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z I think that we are perpetually in a search to find meaning and connection in the context of the present tense. Third Eye Blind’s second act: Stephan Jenkins still living that semi-charmed rock life 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Hensher and Pullman both think this is a good novel, without quite conceding the artfulness of its use of the present tense. A history of the present 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z Occasionally, and for no apparent reason, she slips into the present tense. A Novel of the French Revolution, Enacted in British Parlors 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Finally living in the present tense, she finds herself swept up in not one, but two unexpected relationships that challenge her assumptions about what it means to grow old. Sundance Film Festival 2015 Lineup: High-Profile Documentaries Among Premieres 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Maturity was their present tense, and they had no visual history, lacking Facebook pages to plunder their own lives and archive the mistakes of adolescence. Non-stop action: why Hollywood’s ageing heroes won’t give up 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z And the album’s episodic title track, featuring a soulfully assured Charenée Wade on vocals, sounds both oldfangled and vibrantly present tense. Review: Aaron Diehl’s ‘Space Time Continuum’ Is a Jubilant New Album 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z “It was in the editing room that we saw the potential to tell the story in present tense,” he said in an interview with Filmmaker Magazine. | Television: In a Blaze of Confusion 2014-05-09T23:02:13Z The endless present tense of Dorian's unchanging beauty ought to be its own, radiant reward, especially when he's incarnated on stage by a beautiful young actor. Guest blog: Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray is a very modern poster boy 2012-10-08T14:20:00Z Weiner writes it in present tense, as if the memory it evokes keeps replaying on a loop: Review | Jennifer Weiner understands women. Her new novel, ‘That Summer,’ shows us why. 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z The novel shifts constantly between past and present tense, but it's never confusing. Jane Ayre, we hardly knew you 2011-03-11T16:36:00Z I flipped it into the present tense and introduced some fragmentary sections that might function on the page as prose poems. A Gay Man Remembers His Awakening, as AIDS Shook His World 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z And then we were able to just breathe, be in the present tense, be in one place, just relaxing and ... Benedict Cumberbatch: fanboy, photobomber, award-circuit rider 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z These glimpses of early 19th-century London bring Shelley closer to the reader, particularly as Sampson frequently writes in the present tense. Review | In this brilliant biography, the author of ‘Frankenstein’ comes ALIVE! 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z He still sometimes talks about his mother in the present tense. Rio Ferdinand: ‘I used to drink 10 pints then move on to vodka’ 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z One of the very few things in the book that receives a present tense, aside from those famous last lines, is "a valley of ashes" – but even this is perpetually fading. The Great Gatsby: F Scott Fitzgerald is right on time 2013-05-07T13:41:06Z It’s all right there, should future alien archaeologists ever discover it: Our obsession with celebrity of almost any wattage, past or present tense, mixed with a deeper, historical reliance on disguise. Perspective | ‘The Masked Singer’ lets us work out our national anxieties about who’s who and what’s true 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z This story is told in the present tense, alongside flashbacks to Mr. Clegg’s childhood in Connecticut. Books of The Times: ?Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man?: a Memoir by Bill Clegg 2010-06-15T23:13:00Z Electing to write in the present tense, Tobar draws us in from Page 1. Hector Tobar's 'Deep Down Dark' chronicles Chile's mine-shaft miracle 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z “I like to think that some of my work at least will stay in the present tense.” Art and Design: Ellsworth Kelly?s Wood Sculptures in Boston 2011-11-27T05:07:13Z It was written partly in the first-person present tense, and it used that tense to engage in a fierce scrutiny of this world. Toni Morrison, Remembered By Writers 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Writing in the present tense, Fei begins on the fateful October morning when everything changed for her — when she went from an expectant mother of one to a fretful, even reluctant mother of two. In ‘Girl in Glass,’ mom of ‘distressed baby’ takes on Huffington, the system 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Small exits from the excruciating present tense become habitual. He Can’t Save His Daughter. Can He Save Himself? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z “He’s making figurative sculpture relevant in the present tense, but connecting it to a long continuum of art history.” Charles Ray, Walking a Fine Line With a Hungry Lion 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z The book's written in first person, in the present tense, which I normally don't like but when I got to about the middle of the story, I realised why it was so effective. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - review 2012-06-26T14:00:00Z It’s the iconic connection of the physical world in the present tense to the past event in question. “The Jinx” and the Blight of Documentary Reënactments 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z When she talks about him, though, it still tends to be in the present tense. Doreen Lawrence: 'I could have shut myself away, but that is not me' 2013-04-20T22:26:39Z This is public art intended to address its audience in real life, in the present tense. A Naked Statue for a Feminist Hero? 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z I thought this book was unique because it flicked through each character and it is written in the present tense. The Last Minute by Eleanor Updale - review 2013-03-03T15:00:00Z Penhaligon withdraws, overwhelmed by gout, memories of his son and exhaustion of the present tense. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell 2010-05-10T23:05:00Z It’s also written in the present tense, which creates the same sense of urgency and immediacy that you get in the theatre, sitting in the same room as the characters, watching them react. Bringing “Wolf Hall” to the Stage 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z “Wolf Hall,” the first book in the series, begins mid-scene, in a galloping present tense. Hilary Mantel’s Triumphant New Novel Brings Thomas Cromwell Across the Finish Line 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z There’s a throwback spirit to the album, but it also sounds rooted in the present tense, thanks in part to the production of the 32-year-old Andrew Watt. The Rolling Stones Played Old! They Played New! 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z For all of its rich history, this is a story that is being written in the present tense. Sarajevo’s Enduring Optimism 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z The narrative shifts from the past tense to the present tense and from the third person to the second person, sometimes within the space of a single sentence. The Parent Who Wants to Fall Asleep 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z As in Wolf Hall, the story is told in the historic present tense, and for a very good reason. The big novels of 2012 2012-07-13T15:00:07Z Suffused with zombie-movie dread, it’s told in the present tense, adding to the feeling of immediacy. Young Adult Fantasy Novels That Sweep Readers Away 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z The play’s present tense, such as it is, is affectingly embodied by Mr. Watts and Roslyn Ruff, who portrays his solicitous partner, Black Woman With Fried Drumstick. Review: ‘The Death of the Last Black Man,’ a Nightmare Hypnotically Retold 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z This will turn into the apparently unending present tense of the siege itself. The Siege by Helen Dunmore 2011-02-12T00:05:20Z The present tense of the narration has acted as a preservative in the novel. We Still Live Within the Mediated, Alienated World of “The Moviegoer” 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z "Vic's got a funny story about how actually music did help him through once," he says, lapsing absently into the present tense. Kurt Wagner on Lambchop, Nashville ? and being seen as a redneck 2012-02-10T00:00:01Z She wanted a lot more present tense in there. Twyla Tharp, nearing 80, isn’t slowing down. Next question? 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z This lets The Good Wife stay firmly in the present tense. 'We're all news junkies': why The Good Wife writing team is one of TV's sharpest 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The book lives in the world, in the busy, contingent present tense of mid-19th-century Imperial Russia, which contained everything Tolstoy knew. Movie Review: ‘Anna Karenina,’ From Joe Wright, With Keira Knightley 2012-11-15T20:25:23Z As the narrative of the eating disorder began to favor this enlarging community over the individual, our understanding of the disorder shifted to the present tense, became plural and very, very defensive. Anorexia’s scary online empire 2012-07-28T12:00:00Z Maybe I'm just a middle-aged fuss-bucket, but I hate the present tense used in any representation of history, be it fact or . Park Lane by Frances Osborne – review 2012-06-07T10:00:01Z What’s missing, of course, is the sense of liveness, the thrill of the present tense. Devotion to the Stage, and to a Newborn 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z So are these domestic scenes the present tense of the show? Review: ‘The Encounter’ Is a High-Tech Head Trip Through an Amazon Labyrinth 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z It opens in what might be called an unsuspecting present tense, in the warm late light of a June evening. The Siege by Helen Dunmore 2011-02-12T00:05:20Z “Do the Right Thing” is, regrettably, not a work of history but a film set, in many ways, in the present tense. The Enduring Urgency of Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” at Thirty 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z The present tense, used throughout this strand of the novel, signals continuity but also oppressive stagnation. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 1: Bleak House 2012-02-07T09:59:35Z Because of his memory limitations, we see his whole life stream forward as if in the present tense, outside of the storm’s temporal confines. A Debut Novelist’s Elegy for Post-Katrina New Orleans 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Ellsworth’s book begins by recreating the bloody events of 100 years ago in a propulsive present tense. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Cutler doesn’t look back so much as try to tell Belushi’s story in a present tense. John Belushi in Focus: What a New Film Gets Right and What It Misses 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z When Leila’s grandmother says that, it is imploring Leila to be empathetic, and not to think of her mother in the present tense, but to think of her as a 14-year-old and what that meant. "The Persian Version" director on creating a film that is "playful in terms of sexuality" 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z “While they are dense with situated historical significance,” writes Groom in her book on the “Marsh Ruins,” “they exist in the present tense as ever-evolving forms.” A Vanishing Masterpiece in the Georgia Marshes 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z For all its abundant historical interest, “Black Girl” unfolds in the present tense, and directs its characters and its audience toward a still-unwritten future. Ousmane Sembène’s ‘Black Girl’ Turns 50 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Focusing on sickness brings climate and energy issues into the present tense. How to debate climate change deniers (without scaring them off) 2014-03-02T14:30:00Z His personal story is also a story of a new South Africa, where rules are being re-made, and the present tense undoes the assurances by which Lurie has lived in the past. A history of the present 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z Her choice in perspective — combined with the use of the present tense — produces an immediate and urgent portrait of the mounting public health crisis and how the characters’ lives are shaped by the epidemic. An Ominous Sleeping Sickness Paralyzes a Small California Town in ‘The Dreamers’ 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Helm and the film, which was shot in 2008, seem content to linger in the present tense. Movie Review: ‘Ain’t in It for My Health,’ Directed by Jacob Hatley 2013-04-18T22:22:35Z He’s a superb historian, but he’s not looking at the present tense in the light of future history. There Is No “Genius of the System” 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z The present tense also allows a kind of hallucinatory movement between viewpoints, as Anna, her family and her lover, Andrei, eke out their resources in one room of their freezing flat. The Siege by Helen Dunmore 2011-02-12T00:05:20Z I can order in a restaurant, I can get in a taxi, I can make small talk with people, but it's usually just present tense. Julia Stiles gets Shakespearean again: On murder, betrayal and the powerful women of "Riviera" 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z The Troubles exist in a present tense where every act contains the past and implies the future. Time Present and Time Past by Deirdre Madden – review 2013-06-21T17:30:02Z Their stories are told in short passages, presented out of order and in present tense, as if these still-vibrant personalities are inhabiting all moments, simultaneously old, young and middle-aged. A Debut Novel Traces the Boundary Between Life and Death 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z “The biggest regret of my life is this divorce,” he continued, noticeably using the present tense. Ben Affleck Tried to Drink Away the Pain. Now He’s Trying Honesty. 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z “That’s the thing that made me sit up and pay attention, because people who can’t imagine their city in present tense are already in trouble.” Essential Arts & Culture: Museum-quality emoji, George Lucas goes LA vs. SF, a new Hedwig 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z But your prose style — the present tense, second person, the omniscience blended into the almost hypnotic refrain first occurring in the title: ”This Is the Water” — is artfully perfect for the plot that unfolds. “Of course I’m not a prostitute”: Laura Kasischke and Yannick Murphy on first-person, genre fiction and parenthood 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z “In Every Moment We Are Still Alive” is narrated in a vivid present tense that collapses the distance between the time of narration and the harrowing events of the story. As a Daughter Is Born, a Young Mother Dies 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z On Sunday, fans will be celebrating and reckoning with someone they may not fully know: the Rihanna of the present tense. Rihanna: Since She’s Been Gone 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z While the novel’s action is related in the past tense, the unnamed narrator inserts additional comments in the present tense. Review | For fans of Indiana Jones and Dan Brown, an adventure story for the ages 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z LaBeouf talks about his return to set in the present tense. 'It was like lighting yourself on fire': how Shia LaBeouf's co-star changed his life 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z I'm quite prepared to believe that each of the listed novels that's told in the present tense is a miracle of literary art. Philip Pullman calls time on the present tense 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z For a moment, though, Sasha — resorting to the present tense — finds himself slightly reassured: ‘The House of Twenty Thousand Books’ recreates an intellectual milieu 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z She transitions — jerkily, messily — from the torturous present tense of watching a child slowly die to living in a future of possibility. After the Loss of a Child, How Does Life Go On? 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z But rich human relationships are fundamentally beyond his reach: they are built on shared memory and, as Foer puts it, cannot sustain themselves solely in the present tense. Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer ? review 2011-04-10T01:30:01Z “History,” he adds, “is present tense. It’s present for me.” L.A. artist Rodney McMillian peels back the facade on the ultimate symbol of power: the White House 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z What if, instead of seeking out an artifact of the past, you could experience the film in its own present tense? Film: A Fresh Look Back at Jean-Luc Godard?s ?Breathless? 2010-05-21T17:18:00Z Rarely has a novelist's consistent use of the present tense – a growing habit in literary fiction – been more purposeful. EL James, JK Rowling, Hilary Mantel … the women who dominated publishing in 2012 2012-11-30T22:55:17Z Mr. Stanley’s debut, on the other hand, was historic in the present tense. Review: At City Ballet, Taylor Stanley Is a God for Our Time 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Yet the headliners were performing live music, which takes place in the present tense, and they played as if they still have something to prove: not just longevity but a die-hard rock spirit. Review: At Desert Trip, Rocking Beyond the Hits With a Vengeance 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Back to the present tense, she hears Christopher entering his house and panics, then escapes through the window, and makes it back to the hospital in time to pick up Rosa. 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: Morello Hears Wedding Bells 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Williams gained a fair bit of weight to play her character, a nurse of about 30 in the movie's present tense. Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams: Cannes' hottest couple 2010-05-21T15:40:00Z Another, for a guy who loved Jay McInerney’s “ Bright Lights, Big City ,” was composed entirely in the second person, present tense of that hipper-than-thou novel. Is that Harold Bloom? Susan Sontag? ‘Muse’ brims with literary barbs. 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z And, given that nobody knows Kim’s future, it’s at least possible that the two will meet in this time period, assuming she survives the machinations of the show’s present tense. ‘Better Call Saul’: There Will Be (Way More) Blood 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Like any other literary effect, the present tense is an expressive device; but expression works by contrast. Philip Pullman calls time on the present tense 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z The use of the present tense in describing a black man who “dreams long ago” is no accident. Exploring Afrofuturism in Film, Where Sci-Fi and Mythology Blur 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z I hate books written in the present tense! The Fallen Worlds of Philip Pullman 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z By February 1942 the conditional future tense of the prophecy was expressed in the present tense, and in May 1944, Hitler spoke in the past tense. Hitler and the Holocaust 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Jenny’s glowing orb is a lone marker of the present tense. ‘Smart’ Review: A.I. in the Living Room 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z The Dardennes are great believers in the present tense, which can be difficult for viewers used to psychological exposition. Cannes: A heart-rending take on a movie classic 2011-05-15T17:21:00Z He is - I still talk in the present tense about him - he was something of a curmudgeon. Selleck's new Stone TV film honors late author 2010-05-09T06:16:00Z Nickelodeon, however, not only thinks the answer is much more complex, it believes the question should be asked in the present tense. ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Retooled for Nickelodeon 2012-09-26T18:35:17Z "Then, right after midnight, I would run inside and stand next to him, and he always has some funny, clever thing to make fun of me about," says Seacrest, unwittingly speaking in the present tense. Ryan Seacrest: 'Rockin' in another year on ABC 2012-12-29T16:45:10Z These documentaries use the standard tools — archival footage, talking-head interviews, carefully selected musical cues — to write history in the present tense. The Best Movies of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z In the present tense, we follow the beloved teacher and novelist Juan Diego Guerrero as he travels from Iowa to the Philippines to fulfill a promise made years ago to a young draft dodger. John Irving’s ‘Avenue of Mysteries’: One writer’s beginnings 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z This double-distancing allows a criticality that frees us to exchange one present tense for another.” Art Review: Gretchen Bender’s Work Is Displayed at the Kitchen 2013-09-05T23:02:42Z Once the lines were in our own voices, the world of Shakespeare — instead of feeling like this distant 16th-century world, this kind of Disney World — felt suddenly very present and very present tense. Druid Theater Company Makes Shakespeare’s Histories Its Own 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Through most of the show, he describes his mother’s personality and routine in the present tense, as if providing a voice-over narration. Review: A Son Mourns in ‘Notes on My Mother’s Decline’ 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z Arguments were won or lost on Facebook over the use of the present tense and favourite fonts. Literary luvvies all aTwitter 2010-12-19T00:05:36Z “I am working only three to four hours and three days only, so I can’t survive,” Ms. Agaton said, speaking in the present tense as she remembered events that happened years ago. New Report Details Exploitation of Hotel Industry Workers 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z His spry quintet — with the tenor saxophonist Walter Smith III, the pianist Sam Harris, the bassist Harish Raghavan and the drummer Justin Brown — knows how to flesh out his ideas in an unfolding present tense. New Music: Albums From Aloe Blacc, Sara Evans and Ambrose Akinmusire 2014-03-10T20:57:47Z The book is told from two different points of view: Rebecca tells the story in the present tense, after her twin sister dies whilst Hephzibah tells about her own life, obviously before her death. Black Heart Blue by Louisa Reid - review 2012-08-13T08:00:00Z "I like to think of it as a rare opportunity to tell a really engaging story in the present tense," says Mannucci. What makes Dr. Anthony Fauci an "American Master?" 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z She'll be dead in three weeks but till then, verbs are present tense. When your friend is dying, it's OK to steal her scarves 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z Like many literary novels now, it is narrated in the present tense, but with the irresistible purpose of inhabiting his experience. Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z But the present tense also suggests the extent to which the past is, for this narrator, an ongoing anxiety. Weike Wang’s ‘Chemistry’ charts a young woman’s toxic reaction to stress 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Her cranked-up rhythm guitar was a force of nature as she led her trio, with her words hoarsely tumbling out, carrying Velvet Underground basics into her own contentious present tense. All the Best Shows, of What the Critics Have Seen 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z How do you endow a relatively well-known episode from the recent past with the urgency of the present tense? In ‘Selma,’ King Is Just One of Many Heroes 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z It’s a way of loving a canon in the present tense. The History of “Loving” to Read 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z He avoids sentimentality for Scott, but, in his present tense narrative he falls headfirst into an sentiment crevasse. Guardian First Book Award reader nominations: Dead Men by Richard Pierce 2012-07-18T14:04:46Z "Charades" is narrated in the present tense, like several other stories in this collection, committing itself only to the present episode. Guardian book club: Lorrie Moore's Collected Stories 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z In the present tense of the book's composition, he gives us a portrait of two Egyptian guides, who possess something of the bemused and bemusing character of Arthur and Jeremiah in Kafka's The Castle. Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra by Peter Stothard – review 2013-07-05T11:00:01Z And each narrates a day of crisis, which the present tense dramatises. A history of the present 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z He uses the present tense to narrate his childhood experiences, helping him to inhabit the consciousness of himself as a boy. Spies by Michael Frayn 2012-05-25T21:54:02Z In her 2010 book “Being Wrong,” my colleague Kathryn Schulz writes that “error literally doesn’t exist in the first person present tense: the sentence ‘I am wrong’ describes a logical impossibility. The Year We Played Ourselves 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z That problem with the mechanics of the conventional prose novel are not true to my experience of life – which is chaotic, immediate, present tense, and not directed by some supernatural being. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z For almost precisely half of Mr. Gomes’s emphatically bifurcated story, we are in a cinematic reality that, while identifiably present tense, also evokes the soul-sick European art cinema of the early 1960s. Movie Review: Miguel Gomes’s ‘Tabu’ 2012-12-25T22:44:18Z “Ellsworth likes to play games with vision more than anything,” said Mr. Shear, who still speaks of his partner in the present tense. Ellsworth Kelly, Abstract to the End 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z “I just was so flummoxed by it,” she said, still referring to the composer in the present tense. Put Down Your Phone! It’s Patti LuPone. 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z Nonetheless, “Russian Seasons” stands as a great work, and its presence in the Bolshoi repertory shows the dancers firmly planted in ballet’s present tense. Dance Review: In London, a Triple Bill From the Bolshoi 2010-08-02T21:06:00Z They are distressed at the use of adopted in the present tense. Motherlode Blog: Deciding Whether to Have More Children 2011-08-19T20:15:05Z The author plays with time through flashbacks told in the present tense, an innovative approach well suited to capturing the upside-down nature of refugee narratives. Seeking Asylum but Finding Heartbreak 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z The book being narrated by Tris and in the present tense, it allows us as readers to establish a deeper connection with the character and understand her with more ease. Divergent by Veronica Roth - review 2013-03-25T12:00:00Z “He’s always been incredibly supportive,” Mr. Jones said, using the present tense. Duncan Jones, David Bowie’s Son, on Making ‘Warcraft’ and Facing His Own Battles 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z To start, he drew upon a technique he had learned in radio, asking Amin, with his eyes closed, to recount a story in the present tense. A Refugee’s Harrowing Story, Finally Told Through Animation 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z At first, series director Karen Plumb seems to be pushing too hard to link Tyson's childhood love of the birds with his present tense struggle to reconnect with something pure and innocent. What Charlie Sheen can learn from Mike Tyson 2011-03-03T15:40:00Z I like to think of it as a rare opportunity to tell a really engaging story in the present tense. What makes Dr. Anthony Fauci an "American Master?" 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Like “A Hard Day’s Night” — or, for that matter, Jean-Luc Godard’s contemporaneous films — “Don’t Look Back” retains a startling hold on the present tense. Critic?s Notebook: His Back Pages, Captured on Film 2011-05-17T19:00:20Z In both stories Mr. Bennett’s prose occasionally and almost unnoticeably switches from the past to the present tense, as if to signal his glee at the immediacy of it all. Books of The Times: ?Smut: Stories? by Alan Bennett ? Review 2011-12-29T23:29:06Z When talking about their work together, Ms. Linna sometimes catches herself still referring to her husband in the present tense. Norton Records, Still Rocking, Is Releasing a Lost Dion Album 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z She writes and speaks about him in the present tense. For Hilary Mantel, There’s No Time Like the Past 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z The story is told in the present tense - something I generally dislike but this is a real exception: you will find that you are subconsciously glued to this extraordinary and exciting story. The Last Wild by Piers Torday - review 2013-05-27T11:00:00Z The characters are so vivid, so real, so familiar that it’s impossible to think of their struggles — and in some cases their deaths — as unfolding in anything but the present tense. Review: ‘BPM (Beats Per Minute)’ Captures the Fierce AIDS Fight 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z It’s a scene narrated in the present tense, stitched together from a patchwork of memories — for who didn’t leave a record of their time in 1920s Paris? More Than a Muse 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Browne mingles the personal histories of several musicians, early collaborators as well as Dead members, with future events in the chapters’ wavering present tense. How much more is there to know about the Grateful Dead? 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z And part of what annoys me about it is that it's always asked in the present tense: who are my influences? Jonathan Franzen: the path to Freedom 2012-05-25T21:55:12Z “Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job, that is being recognized more and more, I notice,” Trump said, referring to Douglass, who died in 1895, in the present tense. Teaching Southern and Black History Under Trump 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z The narrative shifts to the present tense, and what writing gurus call "the inciting incident": the young man's fall. Poem of the week: City Boy by Peter Daniels 2012-05-22T15:23:00Z “And a return to the present tense rather than thoughts of the future and doubts about the future or traps to the past.” Netflix’s ‘The OA’ and the Transformative Power of Dance 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Writing in the second-person present tense, Stross skilfully and accessibly demonstrates how reality is affected by virtual technology, and how life in Europe could soon change as a result. Eric Brown's science fiction choice ? reviews 2011-08-04T09:00:01Z Apparently, and understandably, it can sometimes wear on the dancers, keeping the loss of their choreographer in a sort of eternal present tense. Dance Review: Swimming Through Bausch?s World 2010-09-30T21:15:00Z A three-legged organism loping through a strange world, Coriky is, instead, living, breathing, and seething in the present tense. Review | Coriky is the sound of D.C.’s punk past landing squarely in the present 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z More important, “Hamilton,” which is directed with vigor and finesse by Thomas Kail and features the multifarious Mr. Miranda in the title role, persuasively transfers a thoroughly archived past into an unconditional present tense. Review: In ‘Hamilton,’ Lin-Manuel Miranda Forges Democracy Through Rap 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z This is Dickens in the present tense, Dickens for the 21st century. The Rebel, the Policeman and a Chase Through Britain and Beyond 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z “Ohler employs the present tense throughout,” our reviewer Ariana Neumann writes, “imbuing his account with a sense of urgency and reminding us that the past in many ways remains our present.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z The prevalence of the historic present tense is but one symptom of an itch for formal trickery that has been evident in British fiction for a couple of decades. A history of the present 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z To keep the cast “in the present tense”, only the writers knew what was coming next. The Wire, 10 years on: ‘We tore the cover off a city and showed the American dream was dead’ 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z Her narrator is Clare, a middle-aged academic speaking in the present tense. 2010-01-12T06:57:00Z For another demonstration of how powerful and purposeful the historic present can be, look at the novels of JM Coetzee, a great writer peculiarly drawn to the present tense. A history of the present 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z Lyon's prose throughout is elliptical and hauntingly spare, unfolding exclusively in the present tense. The Sweet Girl by Annabel Lyon – review 2013-01-17T09:00:01Z “I promise you, our guys are going to be in the present tense,” he said. One team will ditch losers label in World Series 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Each addresses the reader: Nick in the present tense, and Amy by way of an italics-filled, giddily emotional diary about the marriage. Books of The Times: ‘Gone Girl,’ by Gillian Flynn 2012-05-29T20:37:17Z One of Nixon’s wars, Mr. Woodward said, “is a war against history” — intentionally speaking in the present tense. Robert Redford to Produce a Documentary About Watergate 2012-04-02T22:05:31Z Occasionally, he talks about her in the present tense, before swiftly correcting himself. Amy and me 2012-06-25T19:00:04Z The real-time urgency of “Love” is undergirded by the present tense and made incandescent by Orstavik’s seemingly effortless omniscient perspective, sometimes switching between Jon’s mind and Vibeke’s from sentence to sentence. Cold Cases: Three Scandinavian Novels Explore Chilling Emotional Territory 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Even now the scene seems so real to me that I can’t but write it in the present tense.” Review: ‘The Liars’ Club,’ by Mary Karr 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z “The verdict is always in the absolute and in present tense. Are we depressed or not?” A Publishing Superstar Whose Memoir Shuns Glitz to Explore Private Torment 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z What he’s talking about is memento mori, or, in Norman Klein’s word, an imago, a trace of some lost landscape, encoded in the present tense. 'All Night Menu' uncovers a hidden history of Los Angeles 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Because using the present tense connotes the belief, or at least the hope, that the missing are still among the living. 'I am with you': In Israel, anguish over dozens of Hamas-held captives 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z "Luddites may have been the last group to see technology in the present tense." Rage against machine learning: Lessons from the Luddites in an era of exploitative technology 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z He opens his book in the 1600s, well before Russia or Ukraine were countries with set borders and identities, and he writes entirely in the present tense as he journeys through the centuries. This Russian exile fights Putin's imperialism. If you don't want to hear from him, he gets it 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z For a brief moment, she slips into the present tense, as if transported back to the scene. Lilia Valutyte: Mother relives moment of stabbed daughter's death 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z For Glazer, it was about creating something “in present tense, not as a museum piece or something in aspic.” Jonathan Glazer rocks Cannes with a chilling Holocaust drama from a different perspective 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z When I was talking to Mr. Belafonte, he would address Martin Luther King, in the present tense, like a ghost that was with him. Author Jeff Sharlet explains why "neofascists are not going to stop" 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z David Noble, the historian of automation, says that the Luddites may have been the last group to see technology in the present tense. Rage against machine learning: Lessons from the Luddites in an era of exploitative technology 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z The book, written in the present tense, as if Vanessa is writing directly to her cousin, has a sad immediacy. Why Molly Ringwald translated an infamous story of film exploitation 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z “People who are intensely poor have other priorities. People think present tense. They don’t think future. They think about making it through the day. People are fighting for their lives.” Dr. Colin McCord, Who Helped Impose a Smoking Ban, Dies at 94 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Four months after he died, the Westlake Village Oaks Christian High softball team honors every Pete Ackermann custom, still speaking in the present tense of their late coach like a beloved grandfather. 'Be like Pete': Oaks Christian softball carries on in memory of Coach Ackermann 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z “Full control over one’s smart home is, at least in the present tense, an impossibility,” she said. Unwanted connection: Who has control of your smart home? 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z She still uses present tense when referring to her brother, who has two teenage children. Family wants to know why police shot Anthony Lowe, double amputee who used wheelchair 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z In the interview, she could not help referring to Ms. Nhan in the present tense. My Nhan, a Victim in the Monterey Park Shooting, Loved Fashion and Ballroom Dancing 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Your life is happening in the present tense, but then you have this quick reminder of this person. How one novelist built a world without prisons that's even crueler than ours 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z “It’s surreal to be talking about 2020 in the present tense, over two years down the road,” he said. In Pennsylvania, the 2020 Election Still Stirs Fury. And a Recount. 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Like many who left Mariupol, she still speaks of the city in the present tense. Russia scrubs Mariupol’s Ukraine identity, builds on death 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Yet the huge speculative banner is not the only magnum opus in Doud’s show, which is titled “Prolepsis” after the literary device of referring to a future event in the present tense. Review | In the galleries: Weaving together the fabrics of society 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z His mother, Sabrina Aston, vacillated between past and present tense as she discussed her son Sunday night in their Colorado Springs home. ‘Master of Silly Business’ among 5 dead in Colorado shooting 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z But it became apparent to me that the strongest version of this film lived exclusively in the present tense. 'Causeway's' Lila Neugebauer on directing Jennifer Lawrence and the joy of Elaine May 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Like Martel, Wells knows the power of narrative elision: “Aftersun” may be a feature-length flashback, but apart from a few lyrical framing elements, its story unfolds in a spare, self-contained present tense. Review: 'Aftersun,' one of the year's great debut films, is a piercing father-daughter story 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Marc Mukasey, a defense lawyer, acknowledged that Mr. Milton sometimes spoke in the present tense about things Nikola hoped to achieve in the future. Founder of Electric Truck Maker Is Convicted of Fraud 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Instead of a dry recitation of 500-year-old facts, her novels were told in the present tense with the hot breath of everyday life. Hilary Mantel, best-selling author of ‘Wolf Hall’ novels, dies at 70 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z And at Snowmass, many particle physicists—particularly those of an older vintage—still spoke of it in the present tense as an old friend. Physicists Struggle to Unite Around Future Plans 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z If you are writing for a course in history, art history, philosophy, religion, or a related discipline in the humanities, you generally will use the present tense or the present perfect tense in signal phrases. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z The film, which got raves at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, is trying to take audiences on both an emotional and intellectual journey as it unfolds in the present tense. In ‘The Princess,’ a documentary on Diana flips the focus 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Each chapter begins in the present tense, with a sort of breathless you-are-there commentary, giving the accounts an attractive immediacy. Review | History’s famous delusions, those who believed them — and why 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z It uses as much time as it needs to be certain while looking backward, because it can’t get it right in the present tense. How to Ride Out a Murky Economy 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Fairly late in the book, for instance, there’s a live-action scene written in the second person, present tense that’s a tour de force. Review | In Gabrielle Zevin’s novel, two video game designers chase love IRL 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z In referring a past event while he narrates in the present tense, Byrd uses the past tense. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Do I talk about Joaquin in the past tense or present tense? My high school classmates were massacred in 2018. How are we still in the exact same place? 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z The idea for the book definitely came from the conditions of our present tense. Why Lidia Yuknavitch aims to 'unwrite an Americanness' with a new novel about America 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z Kallappa hopes the Since Time Immemorial curriculum can help reframe people’s perceptions about Native citizens and put Native people in the present tense. Learning Nisqually history starts with building a sense of place 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z Collisions of scale are important here, as the vivid, intimate present tense of viewership crashes into images linked to vast, timeless dissolution. Review: Mark Dion tackles extinction in his art—and offers neither false hope nor despondency 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z For example, MLA style asks writers to refer to textual materials in the present tense, even though they have already been written. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Narrated in the present tense, the book has a dreamlike immediacy, especially in the opening chapter, “Where the Minari Grows,” which illustrates San’s abject girlhood in the countryside in the 1970s. Kyung-sook Shin’s ‘Violets’ tells the story of a lonely young woman in 1990s Seoul 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Whatever it may illuminate about the past or the future, “Happening” confines itself to a swift, suspenseful present tense. Review: The tense French abortion drama 'Happening' is the movie you need to see right now 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Not everyone in Yulia's situation spoke about their loved one in the present tense, but she never wavered. In Ukrainian villages, a desperate wait for news of the missing 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z Significantly, they will retell the Exodus story in the present tense, because slavery and escaping from terrors in one’s homeland remain an unfortunate part of today’s world, said Rabbi Jay Shupack of Yakima’s Temple Shalom. Central Washington Jewish community celebrates Passover 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z Complete the exercise twice—once for a text written mainly in the present tense, and once again for a text written mainly in past tense. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z She still speaks about Relisha in the present tense, leaving open the possibility she might still be found alive. Perspective | Two girls went missing from the same D.C. shelter 8 years ago. One came back. The other was Relisha Rudd. 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z Some of these climate change harms have been warned about for years, even decades, and have become reality, now written in the past and present tenses. UN climate report: ‘Atlas of human suffering’ worse, bigger 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z For me, using the present tense to create unfolding action was part of that. Reimagining ‘The Brothers Karamazov’? Lan Samantha Chang likes a challenge. 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z Grammatically, everything occurs in the present tense, unless otherwise indicated: yesterday, this morning, next Tuesday, three months from now. Every Year He Texts Me: ‘I Love You’ 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Typically, you will choose between past tense and present tense. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Tabitha still referred to her brother in the present tense: “I’ll miss how he expresses love. He’s so gentle and so warm and so kind.” Jamie Raskin faced a year of grief and purpose after his son’s death and the Capitol attack 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z But then, in the late 2010s, a few years after Barack Obama draped the National Medal of Arts over Kushner’s neck, “Angels” surged back into the present tense. Tony Kushner, Oracle of the Upper West Side 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z One reads his narrative, mostly in the present tense, as if watching a film. Review | The chaos of France’s defeat, and the thrill of its liberation 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z “He does the job,” the Big Man said, enhancing the praise by putting it in the present tense. My encounter with a football miracle: In search of the stories behind 'The Play' 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z Demonstrate competent use of the literary present tense in textual analysis. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z "When I’m here, I feel like he’s probably in the building somewhere. It’s hard not to talk about him in the present tense." 'Jeopardy!' host Ken Jennings apologizes for 'dad joke' 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z The people onstage discuss these same issues, very much in the present tense and with their eyes turned toward an ever-elusive future. Tony Kushner, Oracle of the Upper West Side 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z “Runs” is present tense and indicates that the tests are currently happening. Happy Halloween! Theranos showed up in a Pfizer costume 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Her sister Jamie, 7, still talks about him in the present tense. ‘This is a crisis’: Tens of thousands of children affected by pandemic-related deaths of parents 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Narration in the story may be in the past tense—the narrator tells the story as though it has already happened—but your discussion of the literary work is done in the present tense. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Her sister, Jamie, 7, still talks about him in the present tense. ‘This is a crisis’: Tens of thousands of U.S. children affected by COVID-related deaths of parents 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z He slips into present tense when discussing life on the edge, perhaps because he was there for so long. How Taylor Heinicke went from sleeping on his sister’s couch to Washington’s QB 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z The president still sometimes mentions his son in the present tense in private discussions, according to people who have spoken with him. In Invoking Beau, Biden Broaches a Loss That’s Guided His Presidency 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z Curtis Machlan alternated between past and present tense as he spoke about Greenville. Massive fire wipes out much of California town, leaving broken hearts, broken dreams 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Also, when discussing the author in relation to the literary text, use the present tense, even if the author is no longer living or wrote the text in the past. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Curtis Machlan alternated between past and present tense as he spoke about the town. 'We've lost everything': Survivors reeling as downtown Greenville leveled by Dixie fire 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Still, Davis talks about his career in the present tense, not the past. A former college basketball star was waiting for his big chance. Then came the accident. 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Again and again — often within the span of a paragraph — he shifts the focus from first to third person, present tense to past. Review: How does it feel to see your city destroyed? A new Syrian novel on Aleppo 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z “Even on the mound visits, he’s so much in the present tense. He knows exactly what he’s doing. I thought he received really well.” Griffin Canning’s gem, Shohei Ohtani two doubles: Five takeaways from the Angels' win over the Dodgers 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z Thus, using the present tense may not apply to all actions within a text. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Written in the immediate present tense, “Whereabouts” consists of a middle-aged woman’s musings and encounters in an unnamed Italian city that both coddles and unnerves her. Review: Two iconic novelists, Adichie and Lahiri, step off their pedestals 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z Those who collaborated with him on the film still can’t believe he’s gone, talking about him in the present tense and joyfully recalling his spirit and determination. 'One more!' How Chadwick Boseman embraced life and his 'Ma Rainey' castmates 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z For Dr. Nadia Zuabi, the loss is so new that she still refers to her father, a fellow emergency department physician, in the present tense. A Year of Risk, Fear and Loss for Families in Medicine 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z Two years after the former Beatle died I returned to the Dakota to interview Yoko Ono - she had just begun to comment on Lennon's death - she still spoke of him in the present tense. John Lennon: I was there the day he died 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z Notice that Garrison has used the literary present tense in discussing both Chopin’s and Jackson’s fiction. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z “He was a very good storyteller”, she corrects herself after using the present tense. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘America under Trump felt like a personal loss' 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z Justice Sharon Kennedy dissented, noting the law refers to records of a student attending a public school, in the present tense. Ohio court rejects request for Dayton gunman school records 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z Written in the present tense, it is a mindful journey through the beauty of his surroundings, interspersed with nuggets of information. Monty Don on why we should put our phones down 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Discussions of Trump’s election sabotage need to shift from the future to the present tense. Don’t be misled by Trump’s brazen election sabotage 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Notice, too, that Garrison returns to the literary present tense in the paragraph that follows. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Keys still talks about her in the present tense. Alicia Keys: 'I was supposed to end up a prostitute or addicted to drugs' 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z Each section had to start in the present tense, include an exchange with another person, etc. Review: A writer reflects on contradictions of capitalism 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z Staying firmly in the present tense, he and his camera crew spend a lot of time following their subjects, some of whom have temporarily relocated to trailer homes in nearby Chico. Review: Ron Howard's 'Rebuilding Paradise' is a stirring portrait of a town devastated by the Camp fire 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Even today Costantini and her fellow filmmakers speak about Mercado in the present tense, as if the timeless clairvoyant was still physically among us. Love in the stars: 'Mucho Mucho Amor' filmmakers on gender trailblazing astrologer Walter Mercado 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z This expression means that when you analyze a literary text such as a story, play, poem, or novel, you use a form of the present tense in your discussion. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z “It’s very important for me to make clear that I love working at Moffitt,” she says, speaking of her former employer in the present tense. Fired cancer scientist says ‘good people are being crushed’ by overzealous probes into possible Chinese ties 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Note that the discussions about Ovechkin’s excellence are all in the present tense. Perspective | How staggering a feat is Alex Ovechkin’s 700 goals? It might be better than Gretzky’s 894. 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z Written in the present tense, in short bursts, the text appears like chopped-up radio transmissions, dispatched from someone squirrelly wearing a tin hat and raised binoculars. A feeling of doom permeates the air in ‘Weather,’ Jenny Offill’s latest forecast of American culture 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z As they reminisced about their former coach last week, both players inadvertently lapsed into present tense, almost as if willing him to still be alive. ‘Instant disbelief’: UW baseball hit hard by death of junior-college coach John Altobelli in helicopter crash 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Your discussion nevertheless remains in the present tense. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z She deliberately puts them in the present tense. ‘I was raped at 14 - the video ended up on a porn site’ 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z “Are they talking in first or third person, using the past or present tense … we are looking for those sorts of things,” Parker said. Employers use algorithms to rate job interviewees; now, 1 state is giving job candidates rights | Produced by Advertising Publications 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Attorney Lee Merritt said Jean’s family intentionally refers to the native of St. Lucia in the present tense, even though he died in September 2018. PSA on man killed by Dallas officer to air during Super Bowl 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z The historian David F. Noble once wrote about the importance of perceiving technology “in the present tense.” The need for a federal privacy law has never been greater 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z When revising and editing your textual analysis, review it for consistency and clarity in literary present tense when you discuss the text, events within the text, and the author’s relationship to it. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z He is always in my thoughts, so present that I still catch myself using the present tense when I talk about him today. Karl Lagerfeld remembered by Carine Roitfeld 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z She changed “was” to “is,” arguing that the present tense made for a stronger credential. Pelosi’s Leap on Impeachment: From No Go to No Choice 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Whereas he used to rap mostly in the present tense, much of his new album switches to the past, offering a more rueful perspective on the hedonistic pursuits of his teen-age years and early twenties. Wiki Goes from Young Rap Star to Grizzled Veteran 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z The business of life, of healing and renewal, forges ahead in the present tense — which is another way of saying that it is never truly finished. Review: The Catholic Church abuse scandal hits France in 'By the Grace of God,' and the powerful drama will make you furious 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z For more about the literary present tense, see Verbs. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z The Detroit Pistons are hoping Griffin was right to use the present tense after signing Rose as a free agent this offseason. Pistons’ Rose, Johnson are big names with something to prove 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Four years later, she still describes him in the present tense: “Ricardo is,” instead of “Ricardo was.” Trump’s USDA is letting factories with troubling safety records slaughter chickens even faster 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Note that it is never “cracked” seed, but always present tense, like another island specialty: shave ice. The Enduring Appeal of Hawaii’s Preserved Fruits 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z In the present tense, however, putting computers everywhere is bad for most people. To decarbonize we must decomputerize: why we need a Luddite revolution 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z The text occasionally adheres to the “Editing Focus” of this chapter: using the literary present tense as discussed in Section 16.6. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Thereafter, Biden couldn’t summon such passionate anger for any other issue, and tended to get lost in his reveries of being a vice president in the present tense. Democrats retreat from reality: Understanding last week's depressing debate 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z The present tense cropped up more often and he relied on the third person pronouns “he” and “she” rather than full names – something that’s typical of fiction. Could language be the key to detecting fake news? | David Shariatmadari 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z They were about life lived firmly in the present tense. Where would you eat if you didn't have long to live? 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z They saw what certain machines were doing to them in the present tense – endangering their livelihoods – and dismantled them. To decarbonize we must decomputerize: why we need a Luddite revolution 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Notice the difference between the past and present tense. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Volunteers spoke of her in the present tense. Final Alaskana sale honors Candy Waugaman 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z “We want people to know that this is present tense,” Johnson said. Paddling in canoe, students learn Native American history 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z "In a political campaign, there is no past tense and there is no future tense. Everything in your life you've ever done, thought of and said is in present tense." Tom Steyer’s bets on private prisons and coal mining could spell trouble in 2020 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z “In a political campaign, there is no past tense and there is no future tense. Everything in your life you’ve ever done, thought of and said is in present tense.” Tom Steyer’s bets on private prisons and coal mining could spell trouble in 2020 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z If an action or description occurs now or occurs regularly, in the present time, writers use the present tense. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Police say Wetherington spoke in the past and present tense when discussing the children’s apparent deaths and said he was doing so because he presumed they were dead. Journal entries, smell of gasoline: Details released about deadly arson fire at Port Angeles trailer park 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z As he listed the dead, his co-workers, he referred to them in the present tense. Virginia Beach shooting: 12 victims and gunman named after 'horrific crime' 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z Reviewing the film for The Times, Justin Chang wrote: “In its finest moments, ‘The Souvenir’ doesn’t just bring personal history into a wrenching present tense. Indie Focus: Making memories new in ‘The Souvenir’ 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z In its finest moments, “The Souvenir” doesn’t just bring personal history into a wrenching present tense. Review: Joanna Hogg’s ‘The Souvenir’ is a filmmaker’s exquisitely moving self-portrait 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z If you are using the present tense in writing but you want to tell about something that happened in the past, you need to change tenses to make that time difference clear. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z The two leads alternate chapters, speaking in first person and present tense. Jeffrey Fleishman’s noir novel ‘My Detective’ unleashes a killer architect in downtown L.A. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z We’re never encouraged to settle into the movie’s version of the present tense. ‘Transit’ review: Intriguing tale follows a refugee’s deception 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z The film ends with an emotional coda of actual footage from the violence in Charlottesville, Va., in August, 2017, bringing a story of the past into a startling present tense. For Spike Lee and his two longtime collaborators, ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Oscar nods hold extra meaning 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z They speak of their son only in the present tense. EJ Bradford's family: ‘If he had been white they wouldn’t have shot him’ 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z The writer is discussing the artist in the present tense, and the artist is speaking in the present tense. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z And his denials of business dealings with Moscow during the campaign all were cast in the present tense, gliding over any deals proposed in the past, an omission that left a misimpression. Questions surround scuttled Trump Tower Moscow deal 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z They did not witness the Paris attacks, but wanted the same immediacy, so they asked those they interviewed to speak in the first person and in the present tense. After Grief and Defiance, Arts Help Process 2015 Paris Attacks 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z “My mom’s definitely an emotional woman,” Prescott said, slipping into the present tense. Mom’s memory steadies Prescott amid ups, downs with Cowboys 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z “The language is beautiful. And the ideas are kind of impressive too. The thing with the present tense is the thing that I bought.” Alex Katz: 'The smartest people bought my work' 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Another option is to tell your story in the present tense, which provides a sense of urgency to the events and allows readers to feel closer to the action. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z But “First Man,” shunning the temptations of complacency and revisionism, unfolds in a jagged, immediate present tense in which uncertainty is the only certainty. Review: 'First Man,' starring Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong, thrills, moves and perplexes - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z “They talk in present tense, and I’m OK with that, because they do understand. I don’t think there’s any rush to let go of them,” Kreutzer said. ‘The Property’: A family’s getaway cabin defined its dreams, until a tragic Sunday morning 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Instead, he used the present tense to dismiss the prospect. Talk of the 25th Amendment Underscores a Volatile Presidency 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z Cooper, who adapted the screenplay with Eric Roth and Will Fetters, keeps the story in a vivid, immediate present tense. ‘A Star Is Born,’ ‘Beautiful Boy’ bring stories of love and addiction to Toronto 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z If you are considering using the present tense, try substituting it in the excerpt from Life on the Mississippi. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z He used present tense — but the plant hasn’t made electricity in years. How a nuclear stalemate left radioactive waste stranded on a California beach 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z “I’m not allowed to eat anything or go out,” he says, slipping into the present tense. ‘I still have flashbacks’: the ‘global epidemic’ of LGBT conversion therapy 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z I write in the present tense because Audeze is still selling the LCD-2s to this day, nearly a decade of widespread popularity after their initial launch. Audeze LCD2 Classic review: these cans will turn you into an audiophile 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z It’s our story too, told in the present tense, which is always frustrating. Bill Browder and Vladimir Putin: A tangled tale of two nations, two centuries and a lot of history 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z For example, if you are narrating in the present tense and want to indicate something that happened at a time before the events of your story, you would change tenses for clarity. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z The Guardian’s Suzanne Moore relayed that “when people talk about the rise of fascism, it is in the present tense”. Five human rights we should enjoy – while we still can | Van Badham 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z He stressed that he was not thinking about any specific trophies that he needed to win, nor of personal rivalries, saying: “I just want think of me in the present tense.” Cristiano Ronaldo: ‘Usually players of my age go to Qatar or to China’ 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z But sceptics will have noticed the use of the present tense in that sentence. Putin will run rings round Trump in Helsinki. Bad news for the rest of us | Natalie Nougayrède 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z When people talk about the rise of fascism, or the coming of Gilead, it is in the present tense. Fundamentalism is coming for us – and women, as ever, will be first | Suzanne Moore 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z Writers may accidentally change from past to present tense within a text—or even within the same sentence—for no particular reason. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z She thinks of her brother, who almost 80years after these events, writes of them in the present tense. Planet of refugees: Children make up more than half of the displaced 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z You will notice our use of the present tense in mentioning public corruption. West Virginia editorial roundup 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z He still writes about it in the present tense: Nazis separated me from my parents as a child. The trauma lasts a lifetime | Yoka Verdoner 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z “I need to see his face,” she writes, slipping into present tense. Why do we — women in particular — love true crime? 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Therefore, she and the writer use both past and present tense to make the time distinction clear. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z It goes without saying that “The President Is Missing” is written in the present tense, or, to be accurate, in a specialist subset of that tense. Bill Clinton and James Patterson’s Concussive Collaboration 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z His point being that because Bennett’s statement was in the present tense that there was nothing technically wrong with Bennett’s statement. When the President Testified: People in the Room Recall Clinton’s 1998 Interrogation 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z We can expect old men and women, decades from now, still suffering, still remembering, still writing in the present tense. Nazis separated me from my parents as a child. The trauma lasts a lifetime | Yoka Verdoner 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Mrs. Clinton kept using the “we” word — and the present tense. Hillary Clinton Democratic Party’s face of 2018 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z To put all events in the present tense would not make sense in such cases. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z In the foreground is one more carved statement, this one in the present tense – as if that was all it took to make it real: Gentrify or die? Inside a university's controversial plan for Baltimore 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z However, he said, a common experience among hospice workers is hearing people who are dying start to speak of the deceased — long-dead family or friends — in the present tense, “like they’ve been talking with them.” Analysis | How the Oscar-winning ‘Coco’ and its fantastical afterlife forced us to talk about death. 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z “They see what Breitbart did and they want it in their own language,” said Mr. Bannon, who slipped into the present tense when talking about the website from which he recently separated. Steve Bannon Is Done Wrecking the American Establishment. Now He Wants to Destroy Europe’s. 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Pastor Morris won't correct his problem with racism until he realizes it's present tense not past tense. A Quiet Exodus: Why Black Worshipers Are Leaving White Evangelical Churches 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z The text does not adhere to the “Editing Focus” of this chapter: using the literary present tense as discussed in Section 16.6. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z He often slips into the present tense when he speaks of his wife, as though his grammar has yet to accept this new world without her. After his wife was killed, a widower reflects on what needs to change: 'It's the guns' 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z Men like myself are targets in the present tense. Numbers Hint at Why #MeToo Took Off: The Sheer Number Who Can Say Me Too 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Resort President Andy Wirth says Wednesday’s announcement demonstrates that moving to all renewable energy “in the present tense - not a generation from now” is not only possible, it’s “entirely doable.” Tahoe ski resort aims for 100 percent renewable energy 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Resort President Andy Wirth says Wednesday’s announcement demonstrates that moving to all renewable energy “in the present tense — not a generation from now” is not only possible, it’s “entirely doable.” Tahoe ski resort aims for 100 percent renewable energy 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z He now goes to Torrey Pines, site of his breakthrough victory last season, with a rarefied distinction: a player not just discussed in the present tense. Rahm's triumph, Rory's positive return and the latest odds on Tiger's comeback: What you missed this weekend - Golf Digest 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z They write in the present tense, as if they are witnesses to events as they unfold. Review | President Richard Nixon and LSD guru Timothy Leary, crazy in their own ways 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Last February, Trump kicked off Black History Month by praising long-dead abolitionist Frederick Douglass in the present tense, as if Douglass were still alive. Leaders say Trump presidency is at odds with MLK’s legacy 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z Morgan talked in present tense about “an 82-year-old’s fixation with 18-year-olds,” yet Morgan mostly discussed work Allen wrote at least 40 years ago. Opinion | A dishonest analysis of Woody Allen 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z She played recordings of his talks and spoke of him in the present tense until her death in Gladwyne, Pa., at 91. A woman who married God, a chess-playing priest and 10 more fascinating religious figures who died in 2017 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z These hardships silently mark the landscapes we see and the people we meet, even as the movie itself remains entirely in the present tense. Senegal's Oscar entry ‘Félicité’ is an intimate drama set in the music scene of war-scarred Congo 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z “The only thing I don’t do is her hair,” he said, slipping into the present tense when describing his late employer. ‘Cowboy butler’ recalls 16 years on the Circle EW Ranch 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z For a story that seems to compress an entire history of human civilization into two hours, “mother!” always unfolds in an unsettlingly immediate present tense. Jennifer Lawrence endures the hell of other people in Darren Aronofsky's darkly exhilarating 'mother!' 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z We can’t sum up what’s happened on Texas’ Gulf Coast since Hurricane Harvey made landfall Saturday, because this disaster remains in the present tense. Alabama editorial roundup 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z When writing about past events, the present tense doesn’t allow for reflection. How to Conquer the Admissions Essay 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Gastman said, still speaking in the present tense about his friend. ‘A folk hero’: D.C. street art legend Cool ‘Disco’ Dan dies at 47 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z His use of the present tense skillfully elided the fact that he put his oldest son in charge of a deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow in 2014. 7 reasons why a cornered Trump is a real threat to our country and constitution 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z When I asked Manning this spring to describe those conditions, she answered in the present tense. The Long, Lonely Road of Chelsea Manning 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z When speaking of his wife, Bob shifts between using the past and present tense. EXCHANGE: Church display memorializes a shared life 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z Some beginning writers think the present tense makes for more exciting reading. How to Conquer the Admissions Essay 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z He still spoke of his old friend in the present tense. Remembering a Pioneer of Asian-American Studies 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Just like Cirinda's family, Maria Solo's relatives still refer to her in the present tense as if she weren't dead at all. Living with the dead - BBC News 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z I’m especially partial to this twist: We sing Avadim Hayinu, “Once were slaves in Egypt,” but we also ask the question I began with, as a metaphor, and in the present tense. This Passover, I’m setting myself free from technology 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z That sentence remains present tense, at least for this year. Joe Davis replaces Vin Scully in Dodgers broadcast booth and delivers 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z At home in Pennsylvania, Mother Divine continued to address her husband in the present tense, and a place was set for him at every meal. Mother Divine, widow of eccentric religious figure who claimed to be God, dies 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Using the present tense, he added: “There is no effort at all to round up, to utilise the national guard to round up illegal immigrants.” White House on leaked memo: national guard swoop on migrants is not policy 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z “When Little Vic knows he’s right,” says Vanessa, who speaks of her son in the present tense, “he has a way of getting under your skin.” The Preacher and the Sheriff 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Trump spoke of him in the present tense: Trump’s Black History Talk: From Douglass to Media Bias and Crime 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Note that he said we are transferring power, in the present tense. How the House Will Roll Back Washington’s Rule by Bureaucrat 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z For the past eighteen months, Trump has attempted to plunge the country into a relentless present tense. A Dark Inaugural 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z It doesn’t surprise me that she speaks about Reed in the present tense. Laurie Anderson: ‘I see Lou all the time. He’s a continued, powerful presence’ 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z The title song is a moody, bass-driven work that opens with Bowie singing in present tense that “Here, there’s no music here/ I’m lost in streams of sound,” and asking, “Am I nowhere now?” What to listen to now: Dale & Ray, Jacob Latimore and David Bowie 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z He concluded that the use of the present tense “serves” in Section 209 meant that it covers only current federal employees, not those about to take a position. With Cabinet Nominees, a Challenge to See Which Master Is Served 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Ms. Ramos is still waiting for her son and speaks of him in the present tense. Hungry Venezuelans Flee in Boats to Escape Economic Collapse 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z That slip into the present tense is telling. Zadie Smith’s Memory Tricks 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z "I promise you, our guys are going to be in the present tense," Maddon said. Next year here: Lovable losers Cubs, Indians meet in Series 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Her vocabulary is wide, but it is true: she does restrict herself largely to the present tense. ‘I face so much jealousy’: Marina Abramović talks friends, enemies and fear 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z BARCELONA, Spain — Just occasionally, as he begins another story about what his father did, or said, or thought, Jordi Cruyff lapses into the present tense. Lingering on the Edge of His Father’s Long Shadow 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z But the way Dixon talks about gambling in the present tense is telling. Kerry Dixon: Gambling, goals, drugs and jail - an England striker's fall from grace 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z “Pressure lives in the future, not the present tense. If you can live in the moment, then you can enjoy the pleasure of it.” The Cubs Confront the Curse: Is This the Year? 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z The entire book is narrated in an urgent, poking present tense, and the pithed characters, of different ages, are presented without complex histories—indeed, without much history at all. Nine Tales of Crises in “All That Man Is” 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z “He helps all the poor and displaced and refugees,” said Mr. Salmo, the chief of the rescue group known as the White Helmets, using the present tense long after his friend’s death. ‘From Paradise to Hell’: How an Aid Convoy in Syria Was Blown Apart 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z I imagine Jordi still referring to his Johan in the present tense for a while: some things about a father are hard to forget, others are harder to remember... Lingering on the Edge of His Father’s Long Shadow 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Under close supervision, patients close their eyes and talk about the memories in the present tense. Faith-based treatment for veterans questioned 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z “This new interesting man is more resourceful, he’s more willing to roll up his sleeves and he is more present tense than past tense.” Dos Equis Makes Its Case for Its New ‘Most Interesting Man’ 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z And, no, that doesn’t mean employing the historic present tense, which is used far too often, and mostly badly. My best writing tip by William Boyd, Jeanette Winterson, Amit Chaudhuri and more 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z He added, “When I said I love the guy, that’s present tense.” Roger Ailes Is Out as Head of Fox News 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Like many people, he described Pulse and its Latin night in the present tense, as if confident the night would return. Latino advocates mourn Pulse shooting victims: '90% were Hispanic' 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z And more generally this seems to be the way that obscure art becomes venerated – by generating a political meaning for these long ago things that matches what is happening in the political present tense. Chuck Klosterman: 'The only TV people watch to unwind still is sports' 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z On Sunday, Maryum Ali shared memories of her father with The Times, often still referring to him in the present tense, because “his energy is present,” she said. Muhammad Ali's eldest daughter remembers her father 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z But, writing in the present tense, she claims she had moral doubts. Trump chair Paul Manafort: 'mercenary' lobbyist and valuable asset 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z “When your husband justifies getting you a sympathy card for Mother’s Day by making it present tense,” tweeted @NoraBattle. Mother's Day: The Aftermath 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Think carefully about opening in present tense narrative or with dialogue. Craft a Captivating Law School Personal Statement 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z He referred to his career in the present tense. It's the final roundup for Peyton Manning, who decides to retire after leading Broncos to Super Bowl title 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z This is Girls, present tense: the scene might look more adult, but the pieces are still the same. New Girl, same Girls: what happens when coming-of-age shows grow up 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z His spirit was so powerful, and his sudden loss so shocking, that some who knew him are still talking about him in the present tense. Antonin Scalia’s candor, humor recalled ahead of Supreme Court justice’s funeral 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z For these words are built to have more weight and permanence than ordinary language; spoken in the present tense, they are meant to bring something concrete into being that will last into the indefinite future. I love you, I love you, I love you … why we can’t stop using those three little words 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z Cook did not clarify whether the December foray was the only one, but occasionally used the present tense to refer to the outreach. US considering fresh military action in Libya over Isis threat 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Contemporary newspapers did not corroborate it, Svinth found, and “A Treatise Upon the Useful Science of Defense,” written in 1747, referred to Stevenson in the present tense. An Obsessive Chronicle of Deaths in the Ring 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Four versions of this simple word, and that’s not even getting beyond the present tense. At Homestretch, students learn to live the American Dream — and how to say it 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z It is about taking the present tense and turning it into past, from being in the midst of a good run to recognizing it has gone by. Tiger Woods’s words finally caught up with his reality 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z Most experience episodes in which they lose contact with the present tense and imagine they are back in captivity. Helping the Escaped Slaves of ISIS 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z “I wanted to plunge the reader directly into the cauldron of an artist’s mind, and certainly the present tense is very effective in such a case,” Barry says. Make it now: the rise of the present tense in fiction 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z Farther north, Verplank takes the present tense so vital to golf and applies it to fandom. You’re doing fine, Oklahoma, at least until College Football Playoff is set 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Things you did in the past should be in the past tense, and things you do now should be in the present tense. 5 Steps to Creating a Nearly 'Perfect' Resume 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z The opening scene takes place in the present tense, in real time, as Ashbery struggles for inspiration. Larissa MacFarquhar interview: ‘People think I’m a total freak for not using the first person’ 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z I just couldn’t deal with the present tense. Booker winner Marlon James: ‘I was the nerd, I wasn’t into sports, assumed gay’ 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z The present tense seems natural for capturing “the jitter and flux of events, the texture of them and their ungraspable speed”, Mantel explains. Make it now: the rise of the present tense in fiction 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z “I look at this year as this year, present tense,” Dodgers Manager Don Mattingly said in defense of Kershaw. Steven Matz Throws Simulated Game and Could Start Game 4 for Mets 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z What he said next applied to what happened in the 80s, but he phrased it in the present tense. Marxism Today: the forgotten visionaries whose ideas could save Labour | John Harris 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z Mattingly still talked of Berra in the present tense. Dodgers Manager Don Mattingly fondly remembers Yogi Berra 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z It’s in the very nature of fiction that it lives suspended in a perpetual present tense. Ian McEwan: when I was a monster 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Barry is just one of a host of contemporary novelists who are turning to the present tense to weave this kind of magic. Make it now: the rise of the present tense in fiction 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z Ahmed speaks about her husband in the present tense, and is grieving her loss. The brutal fight of Bangladesh’s secular voices to be heard 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z “Neal got sickly in the last few years. But Neal never wavered in his journalistic passion. He is, I prefer the present tense, a great man. He will be missed,” Lustre said. Cruz writes 30 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Rashad’s presence in the scene is still felt; so much so that everyone speaks about him in the present tense. Fancy footwork: how Chicago's juke scene found its feet again 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z These co-stars are fused into this season’s larger ensemble, in the present tense. ‘True Detective’ returns, staying true to its powerful past 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z I thought that writing an historical novel in the present tense gave The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet a strange paradox. Make it now: the rise of the present tense in fiction 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z “There were also times when he used present tense but he frequently used past tense,” San Diego County sheriff’s Detective Troy DuGal testified. Former business partner to face trial in slayings of family 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Though Warren insisted she wasn’t seeking the nation’s top job, political grammarians couldn’t help noticing that Warren spoke only in the present tense. Elizabeth Warren won’t be president. But the Senate may not be her final destination. 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z That repetition is bothersome, and equally irritating is the author’s tendency to shift abruptly from the present tense to the past and back again. Details of Waterloo: Scenes of fighting, cooking and scavenging 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z It’s common to forget to change older experiences to past tense or switch back and forth between simple present tense and present continuous tense. 5 Common Resume Mistakes You Can Fix On Your Own 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Large parts of my novel A Place of Greater Safety are in the present tense, and bits of it are close to the form of screenplay. Make it now: the rise of the present tense in fiction 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z Several times, Gioia used the present tense in describing his time at Ford, even though it had been decades since he’d worked there. How Do We Build a Safer Car? 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z "I'm not sure that many people would keep someone alive in the present tense the way she did," McCain said. Neighbors grieve quietly for Maryland man killed in drone strike 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Shelley Anderson still sometimes slips into the present tense when speaking of her husband, Jason. Correction: Gulf Oil Spill-Empty Graves-Full Hearts story 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z A typical composition requires only a couple of minutes, not many more chords, and a fistful of acute lyrics delivered in the first person, present tense. Katie Crutchfield’s Musical Memoirs 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z There are bits of Jane Eyre and Villette that jump into the present tense, where the focus is rapidly narrowed – there’s a tracking shot. Make it now: the rise of the present tense in fiction 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z They translate Alice into the present tense, much as Nabokov once made her Russian. Think You Know Alice In Wonderland? This Exhibition Reveals Her Dalliances With Dali And Nabokov 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z He did so with fidelity to the raw facts of living in the present tense. A Painting a Day 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z In all seriousness, it is always sobering as I get older to see stuff that I vividly remember happening in the present tense being treated as somewhat ancient history. 'Straight Outta Compton' Trailer: NWA Teaser Is NSFW 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z She left the military last month, but she still speaks of it in the present tense — “my clients” — and retains its customs, invariably addressing me as “ma’am.” A new voice for sexual assault victims in the military 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z The present tense isn’t an easy answer, she continues, or suitable for every story. Make it now: the rise of the present tense in fiction 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z Although she couches her denials in present tense — "I am not running for president" — she is doing nothing yet to suggest preparations for a serious campaign. Democrats' past on repeat: 2015 has echoes of 1991 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z She has repeatedly insisted she “is not running for president,” but her consistent use of the present tense has left some liberals begging her to get into the race. 10 people to watch in 2015 who may shift the 2016 campaign 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Amid all these recollections of love and its wreckage, there is one moment when a character makes a romantic gesture in the present tense. Embarrassed by Fiction | The New Yorker 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z But liberal activists hoping to draft her hold out hope, noting that she only gives the denial in the present tense, and refuses to rule out a future run. Your 2014 guide to 2016 presidential contenders 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Warren has insisted she’s not running for president, but has taken care to use the present tense in doing so. Pro-Warren protesters take their fight to Wall Street 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z When pressed about only using the present tense and not saying “never,” Ms. Warren responded sharply: “I am not running for president. You want me to put an exclamation point at the end?” Charles Schumer emerges over Elizabeth Warren as GOP’s preferred dealmaker 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Instead, she just repeated the same present tense denial she’s uttered dozens of times this year: “I’m not running for president.” Elizabeth Warren isn't running -- but she'd like you to think she might 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z All four of the Bascombe books are written in the present tense. Richard Ford: Heart of the Country Dupont was using the present tense, even though Melvin had died just a week before our conversation—but not before he enjoyed nearly two full years with his clones, Ken and Henry. For $100,000, You Can Clone Your Dog 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Ross and others at the event, which occurred five days after Graham was last seen, spoke about the missing sophomore in the present tense. Police search area where remains thought to be those of Hannah Graham were found Even though he’s been clean for 11 years, Brand still often talks about drugs in the present tense. Russell Brand: ‘I want to address the alienation and despair’ 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z That puts it into present tense—what is happening, making it much more motivating—rather than fear of what might happen later. Love, Not Fear, Will Help Us Fix Climate Change 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z When Warren is asked about her intentions, her standard formulation is “I am not running for president,” using the present tense — which doesn’t definitively rule anything out. Hillary Clinton, tell us your vision One number was his score on a hole, and the other was "the number of times I was in the present tense when I hit a shot—I'd write that down," he says. The Grit Factor: Bob Carney 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z The present tense is a narrowbeam flashlight in the dark, limiting the view to the next step – now, now, now. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell – dazzle of narrative fireworks 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z But that’s cold comfort given his use of the present tense and his demonstrated inability to keep his calamitous caucus in line. Boehner refuses to say ‘impeachment is off the table’ Humphrys swiftly moved on to the use of the present tense when speaking of history. John Humphrys throws down gauntlet to Melvyn Bragg over use of present tense 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z This eternal, unnervingly upbeat present tense — those exploding bits of pop trivia and instantly expiring news items and celebrity-gossip nuggets and enticing cultural quizzes — certainly wasn’t invented by BuzzFeed. 794 Ways in Which BuzzFeed Reminds Us of Impending Death 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Warren says she is “not running for president” but carefully phrases the demurral in the present tense, meaning “not running at this very minute.” A bad patch, yes, but don’t write off Clinton Present-tense narration is now taken for granted by many fiction readers because everything they read, from internet news to texting, is in the present tense, but at this great length it can be hard going. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell – dazzle of narrative fireworks 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z Speaking of Mandela, she slipped between the past and present tense. Mandela's widow, Graça Machel, speaks of her loss for the first time 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z The Massachusetts Democrat insists that she’s not running for president, and there’s little reason to doubt her — although, interestingly, Warren sticks doggedly to the present tense to describe her intentions. Elizabeth Warren’s mission in Washington Let’s talk about the present tense: In America alone, 42,000 lives and a million injuries occur annually because of cars. Google Goes Autonomous, Virgin Goes To Space, And Everyone Gets Lucky -- Welcome To The Future of Transportation 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z But to put that in the present tense and say Tumblr “continues to grow” is a bit misleading — at least if you want to attribute that assertion to comScore data. Is Tumblr Enjoying A Post-Acquisition Growth Spurt? Not So Fast. 2014-05-05T18:25:00Z And that, as ticklish and even acrid as it can be here in the present tense, is a sign of true progress in this country. On Obama and Race, It’s Not Black and White 2014-04-11T17:03:50Z “He is a person who is super gifted, who God chose like he did King David, like Moses,” Fidela Rebolledo, 60, a nurse, said of Mr. Chávez, speaking about him in present tense. One Year After Chávez’s Death, a Divide in Venezuelans’ Fervor 2014-03-06T02:52:44Z I like to speak of the future in the present tense. The Upcycle And Waging Peace Through Commerce: William McDonough Wants Us To Design Our Way To Abundance 2013-11-12T12:48:00Z I prefer the focus to be on the field in the present tense and our efforts to win championships.'' Haugh: Bears will be playing moneyball 2013-07-25T02:51:00Z In German, for instance, where the present tense is used whether you’re talking about today, tomorrow, or next year, the future is now. Around the World in Six Ideas 2013-03-05T05:00:00Z Five minutes later, the past tense had morphed into the present tense. My Eastleigh experience was enough – I won't stand for election in 2015 2013-03-01T17:00:16Z A news cycle divested of linear time, pushes politicians into present tense reactions with unsustainable results. Douglas Rushkoff's Present Shock: The End Of Time Is Not The End Of The World 2012-12-22T18:05:55Z Grimes spoke of the boy only in the present tense. Profiles of the victims 2012-12-16T16:48:00Z For example if a person knows only present tense but not past tense, then the system will only serve up present tense questions. Duolingo Gets $15 Million To Translate The World's Text Through Online Learning 2012-09-17T15:01:52Z Ms. Shaw-Leary and Mr. Brooks speak of their boys like this, present tense becoming past becoming present again. Gotham: In the Safest Big City, a Summer of Guns and Death 2012-09-04T01:00:02Z “She is an old soul,” he added, speaking of his younger daughter, still, in the present tense. The Short Life and Lonely Death of Sabrina Seelig 2012-07-28T23:33:46Z In the telling, Greg slid into present tense, pantomiming his mother’s caress. Greg Ousley Is Sorry for Killing His Parents. Is That Enough? 2012-07-19T16:27:19Z "We talk to people before we interview them," Mr Sleiba says, continuing to use the present tense about his work as a reporter for the channel. The view from inside Syria's propaganda machine 2012-07-05T04:20:48Z This music was never going to represent punk, rap, dance music or even the present tense that remains underground and is not for the likes of me to know about yet. So the Olympics opening-ceremony soundtrack is radical? Yeah, right 2012-06-20T19:00:05Z As the Praefatio speaks of the emperor Ludwig in the present tense, the former part of it at least was probably written in his reign, i.e. not later than A.D. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z The present tense too is far more pleasant and less monotonous than the preterite. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z The first person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mode, present tense. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z If it were a lawyer's or a merchant's or any other man's 'phone she could wind the other side first—but the doctor's is in the imperative mood and the present tense. The Story of a Doctor's Telephone?Told by His Wife 2012-02-05T03:00:11.420Z The present tense, whenever employed, is meant to refer to the year 1819. The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 2012-02-04T03:00:17.917Z They are mere moods, and always to be construed in the present tense. A Romance of Wastdale 2012-02-01T03:00:11.227Z The present tense is to be regarded as prophetic. The Roman Empire in the Light of Prophecy The Rise, Progress, and End of the Fourth World-empire 2012-02-01T03:00:10.887Z "The whole passage is in the first person and present tense." Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z “Torture does not exist,” he said, employing the present tense, about the treatment meted out to suspected subversives. Memo From Bras?lia: Search for Truth as Ghosts Stir From Brazil?s Military Rule 2011-12-21T01:17:06Z But that is all in the present tense. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z Exercise 107 The present tense is used to indicate general truths—things true in past time and still true. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z No one of them seemed to be in the present tense of achievement. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z Note that the setting is usually written in the third person, present tense, and in italics. Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-11-12T03:00:36.860Z The present tense was used and it meant just what was said. Seed Thoughts for Singers 2011-10-09T02:00:24.093Z Mandeville orders his scene spatially and chronologically, and he enforces its vividness by relating the action in the present tense. An Enquiry into the Causes of the Frequent Executions at Tyburn (1725) 2011-10-08T02:00:24.473Z Adjectives follow nouns, conjunctions and prepositions are omitted, and verbs are used in the present tense only. Indian Scout Talks A Guide for Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls 2011-09-11T02:00:11.207Z In the months following the attack, the elderly lawyer referred to his son in the present tense, telling the BBC and other news outlets that he was still awaiting his son's bimonthly telephone call. Atta's Sister Won't Dwell on 'Why' 2011-09-10T00:14:10Z |
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