Sentence examples for archaic tale from inspiring English sources
One key example is the archaic tale of Salmoneus, who claimed to be Zeus, demanded sacrifices to be offered to himself, and created thunder by dragging kettles around behind his chariot.
Using a tone that for this reader instantly recalled the wonderful "Fractured Fairy Tales" on the old "Rocky and Bullwinkle" program, with a dose of sour realism used to lift the clichés, "The Hero's Guide" features a kind of humor that may feel charmingly dated, resting as it does mostly on anachronism — contemporary speech placed in an archaic, fairy tale setting.
He taught linguistics, the history of the English language, and archaic literary classics like "The Canterbury Tales" and "Beowulf".
But to Ms. Hunt's Facebook supporters, it seemed like a tale of high school love, archaic laws and antigay prejudice.
Rather than idealizing the subject matter, Sibelius took an archaic-flavored, musically radical approach that embraced both the tale's ancient nature and its modern guise.
As usual, his reedy Scottish brogue wraps around archaic lyrics mining everything from Jehovah and Babylon to a tale of ejaculation into a mash tun.
Although the script adaptation by Todd Louiso, Jacob Koskoff and Michael Lesslie may streamline, at times twist, the play's original text, this famed tale of ambition, paranoia and murder still bursts with archaic verbiage and cadence.
— Hayley Evers-King (@HayleyEversKing) October 15, 2013 But these stories were far outweighed by the tales that flooded in from women in Stem careers facing sheer archaic sexism at every turn.
The films they have scored to great acclaim - recent reverie on the British landscape From the Sea to the Land Beyond and 1934's tale of wind-battered Irish island life, Man of Aran – give a clue, as does their name, to their archaic yet idealistic concerns.
