Sentence examples for ancient talk from inspiring English sources

However, ancient talk of justice often maps on to modern talk about 'morality' reasonably well, since it is in relation to justice that, in the ancient world, questions about conflicts between self-interest and the demands of virtue tend to be framed.

But what do Sting and the ancient gods talk about?

The peripatetics might, like ancient philosophers, talk about such things as truth and the meaning of life -- or, to spice things up a bit, their favorite culinary delights.

The ancient Greeks talked about this problem in their philosophy departments.

Here we see Bunting, aged 82 and looking like the Ancient Mariner, talking about Briggflatts and reading excerpts.

In his 44th lecture on the Gorgias, for instance, he reassures his students that pagan myths ought not to be taken literally; one ought to understand that names such as Zeus and Hera and Hades were merely part of the language in which 'they' (i.e., the ancient Greeks) talked.

"I'm not talking about Ayurveda, I'm not talking about ancient scripture — I'm talking exclusively about how to do the physical postures".

"The ancients certainly talked about it".

I'm talking raw, I'm talking ancient.

We use Ancient Greece to talk about the things important to us and about those economic-political experiments in which we participated.

To interview one of them who was very frail and very deaf, I had to hop under an ancient afghan and talk to her in her bed, and the camera kept turning.