Sentence examples for ancient eye from inspiring English sources

The detailed interpretation of this ancient eye muscle pattern and innervation draws heavily on classical anatomy and embryology of living species.

For eyes to be monophyletic would require that each species inherited its eye developmental network (ancient eye scenario) rather than having independently recruited a similar developmental network (parallel recruitment scenario) or an entirely different developmental network (convergent scenario).

Gould's descriptions help us appreciate the complexities of resolving the extent to which diverse eyes are monophyletic or polyphyletic, or stated otherwise, the extent to which diverse eyes evolved by the ancient eye scenario (monophyletic evolution) and by the parallel recruitment and convergent scenarios (polyphyletic evolution; Abouheif et al. 1997; Hodin 2000).

From the meters of hidden history beneath Rome's streets to the centuries of flourished architecture rising up as high as the dome of St Peter's Basilica, it is often hard to look beyond the Eternal City's ancient eye candy to see its more recent adventures in contemporary architecture.

More than four decades later, trudging on the beach in Malibu, Nachman saw again the red rims of Aunt Natasha's ancient eyes.

Connelly doesn't get into her hypothesis until halfway through the book; the first chapters are devoted to generously padded descriptions of Athenian topography, history, and mythology, intended to let the reader "see the monument through ancient eyes".

The Presley story, he said, is that of "the young man with the ancient eyes and the child's mouth... [who] awoke from the nightmare of poverty to find the brilliant sun of Fame suddenly burst in his eyes".

But where modern viewers see smut and gore, ancient eyes may have seen something different, writes Alastair Sooke.

You cannot expect the Bible -- written in ancient times for ancient eyes -- to enter a modern scientific discussion, and you cannot fault the Bible when it fails to answer our questions.

Traditionally this is the heart of the ancient injunction "an eye for an eye".

In Yeats's line, those ancient, glittering eyes were gay.