Sentence examples for ancient scholar from inspiring English sources

Now Chow Yun-Fat, the tough-guy actor best known for his roles in films such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and hard-boiled Hong Kong gangster movies, has been lined up to play the ancient scholar in a state-funded film that aims to bring his thinking to the masses.

A more impressive version of antiquity-modernity interplay is a wall-size Cubist construction of mirrors designed by Jeong-Soon Oum to represent in a semi-abstract way an ancient scholar's bookshelf (at Seomi & Tuus).

"You had a connection with him," he says, sounding like no ancient scholar ever.

Both IS and Boko Haram argue from primary sources and ancient scholars.

They know the dimples on the Steeden as ancient scholars knew Aramaic texts.

All that is certainly known (perhaps all that ancient scholars knew) of Thucydides' life is what he reveals about himself in the course of his narrative.

"The belief among ancient scholars," he said, "is that nature offers an ethical model that we should follow in human society.

Thousands of people filled a local stadium, giant balloons bearing the names of ancient scholars bobbed overhead, and a Korean pop star performed in an abbreviated outfit.

Petitioners buy slips of papers inscribed with historical parables or sayings from ancient scholars, which are supposed to yield clues that will aid in decisions.

Celestial Music Ever since ancient scholars imagined "the music of the spheres," people have been wondering what sounds might exist in outer space.

Ancient scholars took seriously Pindar's remarks about rival poets in the first Pythian ode, concluding that Pindar actively disliked Simonides and Bacchylides; later scholars, however, viewed such remarks as poetic convention more than personal truth.