Sentence examples for ancient skill from inspiring English sources

There were many versions of the celebration, and most included the ancient skill of kindling fire, using friction.

But time is not running out entirely on the ancient skill thanks to a £2.8m grant awarded to the British Horological Institute.

It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.

Kwanchai Gomez, the executive director of the Thai Rice Foundation, a research center financed by the Thai royal family, believes the decline of interest in such hard work is inevitable, but a decade ago she set up an annual summer camp to keep at least some young people engaged in the ancient skill of coaxing rice from the ground.

There are still odd sight ings of the likes of Ray Alan and Lord Charles, or Roger de Courcey and Nookie Bear ,and the American David Strassman has attempted to breathe new life into the ancient skill, but ventriloquists are thin on the ground today.

Architecture is an ancient skill that has been practiced by visionaries since the prehominids decided to create and build shelters to cope with the chaotic life patterns of their natural world.

Icon's business is barter, whose ancient skills remain surprisingly popular.

Yet, eventually, ancient skills of silent resistance and subversion wore out one prelate after another.

And where, most horribly, the Bushmen turned their ancient skills upon themselves.

Modern memories of ancient skills are the subject of K.D. Eaglefeathers's "These Cheyenne Hands," a photographic meditation on the importance of maintaining continuity with ancient traditions.

She employs retired master glassblowers so that they can pass on the ancient skills of a craft that has changed little for seven centuries.