Sentence examples for Quite historical from inspiring English sources

It is quite historical for a blockbuster, short on gold and long on elegant funerary statues.

I think that books like this are often ignored in the tempestuous world of YA because they do stray into a somewhat different category, not quite historical, not quite romance, not quite drama but they pave the way for a new kind of book, one that I will enjoy immensely.

He stated that he hoped Bradley was not the killer, though in an interview with daytime television show This Morning, he stated it would be "quite historical to go down as the one who killed Archie Mitchell".

In an interview with daytime television show This Morning, Clements stated it was possible that Bradley was responsible, but was unsure whether he "[had] it in him", though felt that it would be "quite historical to go down as the one who killed Archie Mitchell".

Rurouni Kenshin isn't quite historical fiction, but it weaves real history into its shōnen; Kenshin is a samurai in a world where samurai are no longer needed and wanted, where the prowess of the sword-bearing warrior is being replaced with the might of a standard military.

That claim is on quite shaky historical ground.

"I thought we were going to Barcelona, but apparently Prague is quite a historical and cultural city".

On the other hand, these are sophisticated literary works, embedded in often quite complicated historical situations, dense with cultural allusions, and a little guidance doesn't go amiss.

This is one of the best reasons for thinking that such models capture the workings of the climate quite well.The historical record largely bears out what the models suggest Tambora did.

Two women in particular - the "female Caligula", the black Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar in Flashman's Lady, and Jeendan, the nymphonmaniac Maharini who dressed as a dancing girl and ruled the Sikhs in their war against British India in 1845-46 - seem the work of a fevered imagination, but they turn out to be quite real historical figures.

But in actuality they often had quite disparate historical and cultural origins, and this presented Chinese Buddhist scholars with immense hermeneutical challenges.