Sentence examples for archaic conventions from inspiring English sources
People facing death cannot be made victims of a debate over nomenclature and archaic conventions and treaties.
In art, the victory over the Persians probably speeded the abandonment of the Archaic conventions the Greeks shared with the Egyptians, Mesopotamians and Anatolians from the 8th to the 6th centuries BCE.
Without looking or sounding like the archaic, convention-driven movies we call musicals, these films sing.
He cited, for one thing, the archaic, largely Byzantine convention of depicting Christ head on, delivering the usual raised-fingers blessing, at a time when Leonardo was doing wonders with figures turning in pictorial deep space — as with "The Virgin of the Rocks" and "Virgin and Child with St. Anne," both at the Louvre.
New York's Supreme Court judges — who are trial-level judges, not members of the state's highest court, the Court of Appeals — are nominated through an archaic system of judicial conventions.
Archaic writing means you use writing conventions that people writing 300 years ago preferred.
At the start of the RNC, The Huffington Post's Howard Fineman described the convention model as "an overburdened, archaic, doomed institution," while NBC's Tom Brokaw suggested shifting to a one-day event.
Levitt also implied that without decimalization archaic U.S. markets would fall behind: "The U.S. securities markets must adopt the international convention of decimal pricing in order to remain competitive". Steve Forbes has explored these issues on a few episodes of Intelligent Investing.
A wall-eyed study of a weekend convention for fiercely competitive chess programmers in the early 1980s, it's shot on archaic black-and-white video stock – intended, along with its eerily undetectable storytelling perspective – to give it the impression of something found festering in an archive.
However, instead of taking power in this space and subverting the archaic standards of beauty and sexuality presented to us by mass media, most of us often mimic the same conventions.
