Sentence examples for archaic designs from inspiring English sources

James Hall's costumes are more intriguing, beige tights or tunics with abstract or archaic designs.

It really is amazing how much our appliances and gadgets rely on archaic designs that are almost senselessly stress-inducing.

Worst of all, its 4-cylinder engine was an unfortunate mix of innovation and archaic design.

The factories are archaic, designed to make goods of a standard that other industrial economies left behind in the 1950s and 60s.

The An-2's archaic design is a means to an end; the two sets of wings in its biplane design generate a lot of lift – which means it can take off in a very short distance, as you can see below.

As he stares out at us, we realize that he is of a piece with Foreman's archaic stage design: the walls are dark; chandeliers provide the illumination; a railing separates the stage from the audience.

He was flabbergasted by how archaic screw design was.

These methods are presently accessible and affordable enough to make the approach chosen by Goldman et al. seem somewhat myopic in scope, and archaic in design.

The BiVACOR moves away from archaic, complex, pulsatile designs with many moving parts, and a high probability for device failure to a more elegant, simplified, and durable design.

Among the sober folk of the village, the creatures are referred to as "those we do not speak of" — a clever locution on Shyamalan's part, because although its archaic courtesy is designed to fend off the very thought of aggressors (here, in this peaceful place?), you can also imagine it on the lips of a ruling class politely disdaining lesser souls.

While selling sex is legal, brothel-keeping is not, thanks to the archaic and poorly designed laws that govern the industry.