Sentence examples for ancient mentality from inspiring English sources

"Our exhibitions and digital teams," he said, "present a 21st-century approach to the ancient mentality concerning geographic space and how it is represented".

Also crucial are aspects of the ancient mentality: disdain for manual work, a preference for transcending (rather than transforming) nature, a basic belief in the permanence of limits.

Football is, perhaps, one of the last recesses, or perhaps hiding-places of an ancient imperial mentality – however internationalised football has become, however rich in a heritage of diversity England's players.

African politics is a weird mixture of ancient tribal mentalities and democratic ideals imported from the West.

It was only too easy to perpetuate cliches about "ancient hatreds," "tribal mentalities" and a thirst for blood afflicting every second or third generation; or to support myths about "Muslim fundamentalism" and "Serbian heroism". The cliches implied that nothing could be done anyway: that the violence is but a form of congenital madness endemic to the region.

The change in diet also affected the mentality of ancient people, he said.

But the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences must stop acting with ancient out-of-date mentality.

To the vast majority of Arabs and Muslims, it is this apparently trigger-happy mentality, not some ancient, millennial hatred, that spurs emotions.

Rebecca's teacher attributes his inaction not only to herd mentality but to "something ancient… It's you or them.

Instead of polishing their old formula and staying true to ancient codes, they adopted an open-source mentality.

This article proposes that evolutionary approaches contribute important insights into how the human mind has been shaped by selection and how human mentality may be (or not!) adapted to ancient and modern environments.