Sentence examples for ancient influence from inspiring English sources

The result is that there is little prospect of the monarchy, with all its carefully choreographed mystique of ritual and ancient influence, being unstitched from the workings of the British state.

Works such as Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1467) and Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Campo Marzio (1762) show profoundly the ancient influence of phallic architecture in design and worship, and contain numerous illustrations of Priapic temples and architecture.

Modernism and ancient influences elegantly combine in art at once beautiful and thought-provoking.

Despite its ancient influences, it feels constantly fresh and utterly original.

They write, "Each relationship is a binary star, a burning flux of exchanged force fields, the deep and ancient influences emanating and felt, felt and emanating" (p. 142).

Despite these ancient influences, some of his painting techniques, especially his experiments with the effects of light and his autonomous use of brush and ink, converged with those of Western Impressionism and Modernism.

I agree with the British Museum that its exhibits tell the story of cultural achievement throughout the world and that the display of the Parthenon Marbles allows millions of visitors each year to admire them and "gain insights on how ancient Greece influenced, and was influenced by, the other civilizations that it encountered".

Not surprisingly ancient Greek influence was evident in Scythian gold previously discovered, but the recent find dates from before contact with the Greeks and from the heart of Siberia where, scholars say, contact with outsiders can almost be excluded.

The Occitanian culture retains characteristics of the ancient Celtic influence, through the use of six or seven hole flutes (fifre) or the bagpipes (piva).

Thus, if the current references are representative of Russians in this respect, the observed affinity to Eastern Asia would not be mediated by contacts with Russians but could reflect an ancient eastern influence predating the arrival of Slavic populations to Northeastern Europe in the end of the first millennium [23].

Models showing the gross architecture and facies successions of Late Cenozoic deposits in the Gulf of Alaska and on the western portion of the Nova Scotian Shelf and Slope of southeastern Canada have been developed to guide the interpretation of ancient glacially influenced marine sequences and to illustrate the influences of their tectonic setting.