Sentence examples for archaic air from inspiring English sources

Occasionally, Greek terminology gives the journal an archaic air.

And it remains to be seen whether the board will be able to raise the substantial amounts needed to update the building, whose dioramas on ship building, institutional blue walls and noisy air-conditioning give it an archaic air.

Mendes da Rocha's buildings have an archaic, almost primal air, with huge fins of concrete possessing a raw, visceral roughness.

Paranoia and fear hung in the air, an archaic, Soviet-style paranoia that slowly conquers the mind until everyone suspects everyone else of being an informant.

The reason Europe continues to have so many is because of their status as "national champions", which means that one carrier per country is designated to exploit the international traffic rights defined in bilateral air-service agreements, the archaic treaties that separate aviation from normal business.The first airline to get the message about the new competitive environment was British Airways.

Indeed there was, in his gilded youth, the air of an "archaic Apollo" about him, as one admirer sighed to another in his memoir "Palimpsest".

With many criticising the biannual shows – and the ensuing air miles – as archaic and environmentally unsound, designers explored new ways to reach the masses.

The idling trucks are spewing toxic pollutants from their archaic exhaust systems into the air.

The idling trucks are spewing toxic pollutants from their archaic exhaust systems into the air, and prevailing wind carries these pollutants to many areas in the region, further subjecting the entire region to more ambient pollution.

Whether or not you're a fan of the artwork itself, there does seem to be some archaic expectations of privacy and propriety in the air that cause a project like this to provoke such seething reactions.

Injecting air into the abdomen is a painful, archaic, last-ditch way to battle tuberculosis when medications are scarce or can no longer help.