Sentence examples for ancient face from inspiring English sources

Today it turned its sturdy ancient face to a lively, if less certain, future.

An ancient face, a face of stone, passed down through the centuries into those overalls, this hurtling train, this moment.

And though he waived the traditional ritual of having Mr. Lau light incense and kowtow before a portrait of an ancient face changing master, he did call a news conference in Beijing at which Mr. Lau kneeled and served Mr. Peng tea.

She never rated photographers, but co-operated with them well, from the early family snapshots and the pictures of her as a young New Yorker with hip-length hair to the session that yielded the wonderful image of Bourgeois in a black coat like a great bird and with an unreadable, faintly sinister smile on her beautiful, ancient, face sculpted with the eroded grooves of age.

You can sense all that lineage, her face suggests the ancient face of Gaul.

Ever looked up into the night sky and seen the ancient face of the "man on the moon"?

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That sublime pot boiler None Shall Sleep played softly as ancient faces gathered in front of the stage.

Gathered together in a time-traveling exhibition titled "Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits From Roman Egypt," they make a haunting ensemble.

"Ancient Faces" is installed at the Met in the galleries that Ingres vacated, and chronology aside, it's a logical succession.

Yet walk just 10 minutes out of town, and you come to shady rustic lanes where people with ancient faces are working in the fields or walking to the temple as if they've never heard of Paris (or Paris Hilton).