Sentence examples for archaic at from inspiring English sources

It's archaic at best, and I rarely get to everyone before the day is out.

Instead, they proposed alternatives that were seen as archaic at the time, but which we increasingly accept as commonplace: organic produce and livestock, locally sourced products, and traditionally made food from whole ingredients.

Now, tape delays are nothing new, but they do seem archaic at a time when online video and social media bring an air of immediacy to live events.

He notes the problem of translating poetic kennings such as sundwudu ('flood-timber', i.e. 'ship') and that the language chosen by the poet was already archaic at that moment.

Prehistoric cultural periods over that span included the Middle Archaic starting at 6500 BCE; the Late Archaic starting at 3000 BCE; the Early Woodland starting at 1000 BCE; the Middle Woodland starting at 0 CE; and the Late Woodland starting at 900 CE.

As is the case with the Cuban crisis, the historical record is open to widely varying interpretation, much of it rendered archaic - at least to non-historians - by the passage of time.

The beady but twinkling eyes; the shnoz that didn't quite get "fixed" despite an archaic attempt at nasal reconstruction.

Disenfranchising felons is an archaic practice, at odds with basic American values about both punishment and democracy.

"There was a kind of archaic version at six months," DeFeo recalled to a curator some years before she died.

Its caryatid porch, with figures of women for columns, makes use of an old Asian motif that had appeared earlier, in Archaic treasuries at Delphi.

When concerts are depicted in the movies, you see élites in evening wear gazing snootily through archaic eyewear at misbehaving interlopers.