Sentence examples for ancient idea from inspiring English sources

He was retrieving the ancient idea of the artist as a shaman.

Below, he retools the ancient idea of apprenticeship to suggest five ways for young people to succeed today.

The ancient idea that it purifies the heart, sharpens the mind and leads to transcendence is attractive to her.

In "See the music, hear the dance," he was quoting a contemporary voicing of an ancient idea.

I use the ancient idea of an "Ollas", a terracotta flower pot sunk into the soil and filled with water.

Descartes's method, in combination with an ancient idea of curves being generated by a moving point, allowed mathematicians such as Newton to describe motion algebraically.

But, please, not ancient ideas that have been well tried and failed dismally.

Ancient ideas, especially those buried in the unvisited burial sites of words, have a tenacious afterlife.

It is a compilation of modern and ancient ideas, admixed with a great many horrendous European ideas.

Teresi's narrative is thick with inklings, hints, suggestions and similarly "vague parallels" between ancient ideas and accepted modern knowledge.

As China undergoes an economic transformation ten times the speed of the first industrial revolution, people are turning to ancient ideas for a connection to the past.