retrievement

The dialogue between culture and subcultures together with the gentle retrievement of all forms of art, from all times, have made Postmodernism an age of cultural pluralism, where elitist arts still exist, but not as mainstream.

POSTMODERN LITERATURE: 2007

This is what Postmodernism is all about: the gentle retrievement and revival, towards a fertile creative cohabitation, of all the cultural trends from any time and space, of all the individual voices from all over the world.

POSTMODERN LITERATURE: 2007

Generations must come and go before the Dayton flood will be forgotten, and standing out in bright contrast with all else there will perhaps remain longest the inspiring picture of the energy and fortitude with which the stricken residents set about the retrievement of their city from the devastation of the angry waters.

The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado Logan Marshall

The stage, naked of setting; the actors whose haggard faces looked ghastly beyond the retrievement of make-up; the noisy and belated frenzy of carpenters and stage crew: all these were sights and sounds grown so stale that he found it hard to focus his attention on those nuances of interpretation which would make or ruin his play.

The Tyranny of Weakness Charles Neville Buck 1904

Sometimes the heavens are black over them, and the earth trembles under them; public, personal calamities and distresses appear so full of horror and darkness, that they are ready to faint with the apprehensions of them; — hence is their great relief, and the retrievement of their spirits; their consolation or trouble depends not on any outward condition or inward frame of their own hearts, but on the powerful and effectual workings of the Holy Ghost, which by faith they give themselves up unto.

Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

At times, retrievement, success, unsullied honor, all seem to me as nothing, since she is not to be at the end of them. "

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science Various

? er, yet all would not help; they sank apace, and their stock wasted, so that in five or six years they were very near the bottom; yet, being not willing to give over, they did, as it were, gather together all their remaining strength, to the building and loading out one ship for England, to try if any better success might befall them for their retrievement.

Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792