The phrase "ancient feeling" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a feeling or emotion that has been present for a long time, possibly even since ancient times. Example: Despite living in a modern city, walking through the ancient ruins of the coliseum brought about a strong sense of ancient feeling within me.
Ah, the great wen of ancient feeling, hot loyalty and shameful acts that is Scottish sectarianism.
"It will be a fusion of ancient feeling and contemporary design," he says.
Forces which bring great fear, and bring great hope… I'm discovering the pastoral; it's a powerful, ancient feeling".
Horror of debt is particularly marked in the elderly, perhaps out of an ancient feeling that one should not meet one's maker with a negative balance sheet.
You can stare at the minuscule writing on the phone handset in hopes that dialing the listed numbers won't throw you into an infinite loop of forwards and "accidental" hang ups or, at some hotels, you can click your way through a sluggish and ancient feeling TV interface.
The landscape is a brilliant desert; it has this vast, ancient feeling to it.
So all of you burdened and weighed down, with those ancient feelings of northern hemisphere guilt and inhibition, you are now free to cast off your yoke of a kicking game.
Sir Christopher Lee, whose death on Sunday at the age of 93 was announced today, was an actor who used the modern art of cinema to evoke ancient feelings.
A lot of dark ancient feelings I had about The Light Above The Hob (I'm sorry: I thought about it a lot at the time and then I forgot about it, and now I'm having the emotions again) (that fucking light!) have come to the surface recently because I moved house, again, and it is statistically likely you have done so recently too.
In the days when Beijing was famous for swarms of cyclists, its unsuitability for automobiles didn't matter; now that the Chinese have cars, Beijing has gone in one generation from emanating an ancient spirit to feeling like Houston.
I had forgotten just how excruciating it can be to listen to something so unadorned, so intensely human, ancient-feeling in its primal ambitions.
