Sentence examples for ancient influences from inspiring English sources

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.

As a survey of ancient influences, the book does a mixed job.

Flint House, in Buckinghamshire, mashes up ancient influences (pyramids, ziggurats, hillforts) to create a dazzling 21st-century home that somehow gels with the British countryside.

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).

He was a fan of western pop, particularly the songs of Dire Straits, Cliff Richard and Stevie Wonder, but these were matched against other, more ancient influences – the beliefs, customs and songs of his people.

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.

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".

PERUVIAN cuisine is a melting pot of Asian, European, African and ancient American influences, so it's not so improbable that a Malaysian is behind Cocina Cuzco, a new Peruvian restaurant in the East Village.

As a result, Cythera displays hearty remnants of its cultural bouillabaisse, with Venetian, Ottoman, British and Ancient Greek influences coexisting on the island.