Sentence examples for ancient shapes from inspiring English sources

There is a series of Neolithic Chinese vases that he has dipped in lividly bright commercial paint, so that the modern colours drip down the ancient shapes.

Jenny Diski on icebergs: "All night they floated along, carved by wind and water into ancient shapes - ships, castles, monuments, mythic creatures..

They have become famous and a tourist attraction due to their ancient shapes and local wildlife.

And, this summer, the most sought-after ticket at the Manchester international festival was to see Maxine Peake as an ancient shape-shifting sprite in The Skriker (1994).

Peake played a skriker – or ancient, shape-shifting fairy – who craves to be part of the human cycle while haunting two young girls.

Upon her arrival at the facility Stukov explained that Skygierr housed the Dominion's primary Hybrid research and development laboratory, and that "Emil Narud" was actually an ancient shape shifter in the employment of a fallen Xel'Naga named Amon.

Starting in Uruk in southern Iraq, he travels to Syria, Egypt, Anatolia and Greece, revealing how the successes and failures of the ancients shaped the world we live in today.

We recently used box, yew and multi-stemmed Amelanchier lamarckii to formally mimic the ancient tree shapes across the valley, and I'm not sure anything else could have done that.

In contrast to biparental mapping populations, in which the pattern of LD and the allele frequency distribution are known and are independent of population genetic parameters, every association mapping population has a unique population history (both recent and ancient) that shapes its patterns of genetic variation and may determine which mapping method works best.

How mistakes and changes by ancient scribes shaped the Bible we use today.

It was smaller than before, but still had its ancient circular shape and its mix of oak, ash and hazel trees.