Sentence examples for ancient setting from inspiring English sources

The ancient setting is incredible, with huge gardens offering a real oasis within the city.

Now, in her new novel, she makes further play with the tensions between ancient setting and modern medium.

Looking up at these apartments from the new walkways, which are open free until 7 30 p.m., one can spot signs of modern life in an ancient setting.

The mixture of the elements of light, the ancient setting and the talk of resistance made it, in my mind, a quintessentially English scene.

And goodness, did I, Claudius cut through some taboos: the ancient setting proving very useful in allowing Pulman to get away with subjects and scenes that wouldn't have been tolerated in a show with a modern backdrop.

Yet a growing number of New Yorkers who have been finding solace in a different type of motion, using an ancient setting to combat the trappings of modern urban life: the labyrinth.

When we opened the packing cases we found that in their place someone had put an ancient set (in English) of Ian Fleming's James Bond books.

Last year, Greenpeace ran into criticism for damaging the Nazca Lines, an ancient set of etchings in the Peruvian desert, during an ill-judged protest.

So far, so Flaherty: an ancient set of tribal skills and rituals, documented in a way that makes one vaguely suspicious that this is all being falsely maintained in its ancient forms.

It's that very advantage that makes Steve Novak so deadly, and allows an ancient set shooter like Kidd to fire off eight open 3-pointers in a single game.

Each week, a different theme will be tackled in the show, which is described as taking a "very 21st-century approach to an ancient set of questions", exploring ideas from philosophers including Thomas Hobbes and Immanuel Kant.