Sentence examples for age-old expression from inspiring English sources

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Remember that, as unrealistic as the dream may seem to you, for them it was a "real" experience, and it'll do little good to drop the age-old expression "don't worry, it was just a dream".

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The revived dispute over the Confederate flag that has erupted in the wake of the Charleston shootings is just the sharpest expression of an age-old seeping wound.

The tale gives fresh expression to an age-old primal fear: a mother's dread of being supplanted or destroyed by a daughter.

Arguably, and in some of its moods, the whole enterprise of science fiction is an expression of the age-old universal human longing for something more; a reaching out to the unknowable – beyond this life, out and up, beyond the horizon of the stars – our great escape out of the body of this death.

9. H.-G. Gadamer asks: "Although Plato assures us to the contrary, is not his inability to do justice to the poets and to the art of poetry nevertheless an expression of the age-old rivalry between poets and philosophers?" See his "Plato and the Poets," in Dialogue and Dialectic, trans.

Cole in the port of Aden, Yemen, and the turmoil in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank are, above all else, violent expressions of the age-old confrontation between Islam and the West.

He says MPs are discussing the "age-old" tension between privacy and freedom of expression.

An age-old question.

Then began the age-old negotiation.

Calvin Trillin settles an age-old dispute.

Value versus growth, the age-old battle.

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