Sentence examples for archaic mode from inspiring English sources

(Farren, on the other hand, in a distinctly archaic mode, complained that the painter had made her look too thin).

The eight-syllable lines in an archaic mode written for the 14th-century poet John Gower in Pericles show his reading of that poet's Confessio amantis.

Tolkien professed a childhood interest in Native American stories, with their "bows and arrows … and strange languages, and glimpses of an archaic mode of life, and, above all, forests".

In his Theory of Communicative Action, he treated religion primarily from a sociological perspective, as an archaic mode of social integration.

A ship is a collective and archaic mode of transit meaning he's in a serious transition period common to everyone, and hasn't found the particular way through.

Yet while historians often dismissed it as the last of the archaic mode of Ancien Régime warfare, elements of the war foreshadowed conflicts to come: the sheer sizes of the armies deployed reflected emerging abilities and willingness to conscript, train, equip and field larger armies than had been done in previous generations.

Gizzi has been attracted to archaic modes before.

He determined to revive archaic modes of plainchant and Renaissance polyphony, and imposed upon them experiments in alternative scales and unconventional harmony.

Carlos Chávez's brief, terse Symphony No. 1 ("Sinfonía di Antígona"), based on music created for a 1932 staging of "Antigone" in Cocteau's modernist revision, conjured its subject with archaic modes and appealingly otherworldly timbres.

Human society developed in stages from the magical through the religious to the scientific and myths and rituals (which survived even into the scientific stage) bore witness to archaic modes of thought that were otherwise difficult to reconstruct.

Cushman clearly has fun with this archaic speech, and to maintain the tone, writes her narrative in the same mode as her dialogue.