Sentence examples for ancient need from inspiring English sources

It is an ancient need to be told in stories.

"Blasted comes from the centre of our humanity and our ancient need for theatre.

I'm not quite ready to go as far as the poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht, who writes that holiday shopping fulfills "an ancient need to gather and tithe, and serves as a modern-day ritual of renewal".

He concluded, "It is an ancient need to be told stories.

The very act of making a meal from scratch fills an ancient need in us that cannot be met with even the tastiest store-bought products.

"This is about the ancient needs of a Hopi clan to practice their religion as part of the survival of their culture," Dr. Parker said.

But all the ancients needed, Ms. Mayor discovered, was empirical evidence, not modern scientific understanding, that by the time of the Hercules myth, snake venom was lethal and could be delivered effectively by bow and arrow.

That the New Year should follow so closely after Christmas underscores the point: in the Common Era, the ancient human need for ritual renewal manifests itself in essential Christian ways, even as those needs are, like Christ, suprachristian and suprareligious.

The "universality" so often claimed for ancient Greece need not mean a cold and lofty eminence to which lesser breeds can but aspire.

Sam is captured and imprisoned in a language retraining camp, where he is forced to devise nontoxic forms of communication: "Did the language itself matter?... Did an ancient one need to be revived, or were we bound to invent a new one, avoiding the perils of every language that has heretofore existed, I wondered".

To better understand the evolution of this region, ancient remains need to be analysed by all possible means.