In the present tense, that means that we should do the things that we can control.

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Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely.

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But she succeeds in evoking a sense of history about a place usually thought of in the present tense.

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Politics is history in the present tense, and the study of history can inspire us to aim high in our own lives.

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She, she sometimes thought, of herself, and always in the present tense.

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"It's a look into the daily life today of ordinary people, that's why I called my film Present Tense, " says director Belmin Soylemez.

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"You notice I'm speaking in the present tense ... because that's where all your future prayers are going to come in, " she wrote.

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This explains the ascent of his reputation in the mid-nineteenth century, when his work showed modernists such as Manet that candid technique could serve the direct registration of things as they really appear, in streaming present tense.

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Suddenly they are present tense.

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Arpaio has had a number of run-ins with his fellow-lawmen, and his present obsession with illegal immigrants has made things even more tense.

NEWYORKER: Sheriff Joe