Sentence examples for archaic sense from inspiring English sources

The Russian ballets were theater in a more inclusive, more archaic sense.

This is not a testament of faith, but of passion in the archaic sense.

Dante was the highest expression of Christian civilization, in Eliot's view, whose Divine Comedy was "awful" in that archaic sense of the word of inspiring awe.

In its archaic sense, the term hell refers to the underworld, a deep pit or distant land of shadows where the dead are gathered.

He was grinning and all but dancing as the woodwind chirruped and tweeted, in the archaic sense of the word, in the "Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks".

The return of that archaic sense of them-and-us is worrisome, but some here say it has also sparked a new mood of reflection.

It feels — in both the modern and archaic senses — awesome.

It places the central and most frequent meanings of each word first, followed by secondary and technical senses, slang, idioms, and historical and archaic senses.

Kant is using it in a now-archaic sense in which it contrasts with 'anaesthetic'anaesthetic

And so, in the end, the contemporary reader is likely to come away from this ostensibly archaic epic with the sense of something remarkably familiar, even contemporary.

Of course, different innovations will appear in different dialects, so, in comparison with its contemporaries, no one dialect as a whole can be considered archaic in any absolute sense.