Sentence examples for an ancient model from inspiring English sources

An astoundingly gifted sculptor, he has reworked an ancient model, the Guelede mask which belongs to Yoruba and Nora tradition.

As inevitably as an Advent calendar, the Street-Porter telly (an ancient model bequeathed by my late mother) has adjusted to traditional seasonal fare.

It transfers those songs over an ancient-model USB 1.1 connection that takes about 30 seconds per tune.

The ultimate discovery is a monumental marble vessel derived from an Ancient Roman model.

Like many successful entrepreneurs in the United States, Woehrle followed what seems like an ancient business model: making things by hand.

A large head of the goddess Aphrodite, copied in the first century from an ancient Greek model, has been disfigured by a cross gouged into her forehead, a crude act of branding.

Now it does: a curving, armless klismos chair, based on an ancient Greek model, that stands two stories tall and frames the entrance to the new showroom of Artistic Frame, a 73-year-old chairmaking concern, at 985 Third Avenue, between 58th and 59th Streets.

These days, Pyongyang relies almost entirely on a single petroleum-burning generator for its balky electricity supply, and it is an ancient Soviet model, so overworked that the diplomat said, "It is giving off thick columns of smoke half the time from places where smoke has no business coming from".

Tibetan medicine offers an ancient, timely model for the promotion of health and treatment of disease by teaching individuals to make healthy lifestyle choices.

In an era of plummeting CD sales and free downloads, most musicians survive on live performances, as the ancient model of the troubadour returns in the digital age.

Remarkably, this ancient model has been resurgent in recent years, as sales of university-press books have dwindled and the price of journal subscriptions has risen.