Sentence examples for ancient from from inspiring English sources

It is a fierce awareness of implacable absolutes that, in the end, really distinguishes the ancient from modern athletic competitions.

But if the country seems ancient from the viewpoint of human habitation, it is among the youngest geologically.

It looked ancient from the moment the trade center basement was excavated and the inside of the wall was exposed.

Once in a while, I lie there as the television runs, and I read something wild and ancient from one of several collections of folktales I own.

From the photograph, which had been e-mailed to him, Pääbo had decided that the skullcap could be quite ancient — from an early Neanderthal, or even a Homo heidelbergensis.

They were after a sound that Feist described as "modern ancient," from Mr. LeBarton's vintage keyboards to the live strings and backup vocals of the Real Vocal String Quartet, a four-woman group from San Francisco that sings and plays simultaneously.

"Our inspiration comes from ancient Egypt and Africa, from folk art and modern art," Mr. Tsao said.

Yet he gets his inspiration from ancient sculpture from India as well as modernist masters like Joseph Beuys.

Tattoos are preserved on other mummies from ancient civilisations, from the Scythians of central Asia to the Chiribaya of Peru.

The specific epithet is also derived from Ancient Greek, from the adjective phoinikes "red".

Beta-blockers from my doctor, some ancient Valium from Thailand, Librium from my sympathetic builder.