Sentence examples for archaic manner from inspiring English sources

Authorities disagree about the intent of David's eclectic, deliberately archaic manner.

Although painted in a static, formal, archaic manner close in style to Byzantine prototypes, these frescoes show a particularly sombre and intense emotionalism that goes beyond even the typical Russian emphasis on emotional expression.

I remember when I first stumbled into the art world, I was shocked that it could be run in such an archaic manner".

On one of the bases was a short dedication in Lydian and Greek, the first bilingual of this character that has been discovered, and the sculptures included two lions and an eagle of marble carved in an unusual archaic manner which is very surely to be called Lydian.

When good cheer is dispensed by all, a musical comedy that overrules stifling class and archaic manners is even more freeing than expected.

He trained as an icon painter in a local variant of the archaic Byzantine manner, whose rigid formulas were aimed less at representing the divine than at magically summoning it.

Pskov perfected an extremely forceful style of icon painting that to the end of its development combined a remarkably skillful expression with a somewhat archaic, even naive, manner of presentation.

What is surprising given the importance of the comprehensive fee is the archaic and haphazard manner by which many institutions assemble their classes.

He long wanted to see this bloated and archaic bunch streamlined in the manner of Tony Blair's New Labour.

But he is in no way archaic.

In like manner, artistic expression in archaic or "primitive" societies, often related to ritual presentation, is modelled on the structure of the cosmogonic myth.