Sentence examples for On relics from inspiring English sources

Heywood's 1533 play The Pardoner and the Frere satirizes a corrupt pardoner who, like Chaucer's Pardoner, uses relics to make money.2 Heywood lifts from Chaucer phrases such as "Here is a mytten eke, as ye may se"3 and "I shewe ye of a holy Jewes shepe / A bone,"4 and he augments the General Prologue's eighteen lines on relics to eighty-one.

The kind of writing on relics that supposedly dated back four millenniums hadn't come into widespread use until the last 100 or so years.

Unfortunately, the problem in both cases is that we are relying on relics of the feudal guild system (copyrights and patents) to finance the development of the product.

10 P.M. (Discovery) THE RESURRECTION TOMB MYSTERY The filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici and James D. Tabor, a professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, examine inscriptions on relics found in the Patio Tomb in Jerusalem, which sits 200 feet from what is known as the Jesus Family Tomb.

Riffing on the idea of junk e-mail as a lowly commercial life form, Mr. Jarnow along with the other curators, Daniel Greenfeld and Mike Rosenthal, tried to depict how an archaeologist 450 million years in the future might present current culture, based only on relics of spam.

Previous studies on characterization of the degree of weathering of large exposed stone relics have focused mainly on experimental or test analyses, which involve sampling methods that may bring further effect on relics.

Even his clothing is monochrome – filthy black waistcoat, scruffy collarless shirt, fusty old kecks and, incongruously, white slip-ons, relics of nattier days.

"There are beautiful pieces of brutalist architecture, but a lot of these people are … holding on to relics of a time gone by.

Never has there been a discovery of relics on this scale from the early Christian movement, in its homeland and so early in its history.

Carbon dating of the linen wrapping inside puts its origins at 850 to 540 BC, making it among the oldest of relics on view.

The current cathedral stands on layers of relics where at every stage of its existence, the faithful attempted to enlarge and beautify it, and added murals and icons.