Sentence examples for ancient subjects from inspiring English sources

If you are studying Byzantine or ancient subjects, older things, you are less likely to find something in museums.

Though he was inspired by pre-college visits to Italy and he returns there as often as he can, Mr. Saari's fake ancient subjects are his own invention.

Whitman called upon the poetic Muse to abandon its ancient subjects -- "That matter of Troy and Achilles' wrath" -- and take up residence instead in the New World of industry, invention and technology.

The Italian epics made before World War I displayed Roman and Egyptian styles that the public had come to expect from popular paintings and stage plays dealing with these ancient subjects.

His paintings suggest something of those tensions in dealing with ancient subjects and figure styles; indeed, Chen gave a brief but vigorous new life and dignity to the art of figure painting that had been in limbo since the Song dynasty (960 1279).

This might not be a problem with some ancient subjects that are more recognizable and accessible, such as Greek or Roman art; however, with the largely unfamiliar arts and artifacts of the Ancient Near East, this sensory distancing often translates into an intellectual distancing as well.

Cryptography as an ancient subject is endowed with new vigor by chaos theory.

Ontology is an ancient subject; metaontology has been around for only 30 years or so.

Along with Hassan, an archaeologist from the Libyan Department of Antiquities in Tripoli, the team are working through their holiday with an urgency that might seem unusual considering the ancient subject matter.

But the last half-century has seen this ancient subject pulled down from its academic perch and into courtrooms, laboratories, real-world questions about moral responsibility, and even popular culture.

The folly of the supposed wise was an ancient subject, of course, but Carroll's characters — the White Knight, Humpty Dumpty, the White Queen, the Mad Hatter and the March Hare — are intellectuals in what was then a new sense: people who like to come up with chains of abstract logical reasoning for their own sake, just to see where they will lead.