Sentence examples for antique idea from inspiring English sources

I was drawn to the antique idea of a correspondence because it seemed restrained and formal, even ritualized.

The famous figure of Vitruvian man, for instance, splayed out in his encircled square, is in origin a derivative illustration of an antique idea about regular proportions: a man's proportions when the arms are horizontal make a square; with the arms diagonal they center a circle.

But, at heart, Harper's team are not that different from politicians across the developed world who have discovered that democracy is a pretty sweet theory but that, in reality, if you want to get hold of power and use it, there are all kinds of devious moves available that have very little to do with that antique idea.

The antique Persian idea of the afterworld as a garden, when interpreted by the tile-makers of the Islamic era, turned mosques from mere places of worship into simulacra of paradise.

If we start invoking Trollope or Dickens as popular, prolific writers who also have literary respectability, we're only confirming that there's something antique about the idea of creating a large body of serious yet popular writing.

Buy from Amazon.com; Amazon.co.uk A novel about an antique watch, exploring ideas of time and the threads of history, by an Asia correspondent.Guide to Country Risk.

Mrs. Dalva who is partowner with her husband in the firm of Dalva Brothers, antique dealers, got the idea in '49.

Even Fox's freshest ideas are antique: a show about a hunky Ichabod Crane called "Sleepy Hollow" and "24" with Kiefer Sutherland, but this time squeezed into 12 episodes.

So when the idea of antiquing caught on in the United States — the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia made Colonial furniture popular — much of the great old furniture was already there.

"Who knows where it would be by now if they had moved it forward?" Since his tenure at Google, Mr. Schachter has been working on his next creation, a clever service called Jig that lets people post requests and needs, like calls for help in finding a repair shop for an antique watch or brainstorming ideas for a company.

Taking the idea of distressed antiques literally, he hammers on tatty old furniture, urinates on it and screams curses at it.