Sentence examples for archaic role from inspiring English sources

As secretary-general of the Central Military Commission (a post he had first held three decades earlier), he forced the military to abandon its archaic role as a politicised revolutionary force, to become a modern fighting body.

And like another science-loving Asian monarch, Emperor Hirohito of Japan, he found himself thrust into a fantastically archaic role – or rather a dual role, with an apparently modern face directed to the outside world and an ancient, sacred identity fashioned to give him spiritual authority over his people.

My 4-year-old and I are stuck in the archaic roles of child and daddy.

That's where he started to reinforce archaic gender roles.

But in communities which view the outside world as dangerous or threatening, these traditional values -- values like medieval male authority and archaic gender roles -- are enforced more rigidly.

Our generation is somewhat shifting that particular narrative around marriage at least those of us rooted in social justice and feminism trying to combat those archaic gender roles, especially about what it means to be in a perceived heteronormative relationship.

It has been suggested that Tolkien used the dual to give Quenya an "archaic feel" in its role as an ancient language of the Elves.

Lesbian feminists considered the butch roles as archaic imitations of masculine behavior.

The chorus of the drowned speaks and sings in a multilingual haze; the Icelandic boys chant archaic raps; Qudsja, a soprano role, alternates between spare, searching arioso lines and stifled screams.

The process of discovering similarities of personality between plants and animals, on the one hand, and human beings, on the other, also plays a significant role in certain archaic sciences.

These tyrannical beauty ideals forced upon women are rooted in archaic expectations of what our roles should be – decorative, mostly, which is why I find Dove telling us to suck it up and submit so nauseatingly disingenuous.