Sentence examples for archaic traditions from inspiring English sources

Christian pokes fun at Rebecca's college, Magdalen, notorious for its archaic traditions.

Myths of archaic traditions generally imply a conception of the world, nature, and man in terms of cyclic time.

It's easy to mistake parliament for a civilised place: the archaic traditions, opulent settings and glut of privately educated old men suggest as much.

"Our tenets defend equality, condemn cultural relativism and combat archaic traditions," like those that interpreted a young woman wearing a skirt as available for gang rape.

Would it be such a bad thing to call for an end to archaic traditions that alienate well over half the student population?

Imagine a slew of archaic traditions and festivities, from the reverent to the raucous.

In her respectful hands, geisha are women first, symbols of an increasingly archaic tradition second.

This early Archaic tradition is best known from the Modoc Rock Shelter in southern Illinois and from Graham Cave in Missouri and Russel Cave in Alabama.

Modern society's neglect of cosmic symbolism (which in contrast was widespread in archaic tradition) has provoked certain reactions, such as the continuing interest in astrology, which may even be seen as an attempt to present a coherent account of the cosmos.

Through Nov. 22 After the United States invaded Iraq, Steve Mumford set out to revive the archaic tradition of the war artists whose on-the-spot depictions of life in the combat zone -- in pencil, pen or watercolor -- were long ago vanquished by the camera.

The Satanic Temple has maintained that their Satan is a metaphorical one and not a deity, stating on their website "to embrace the name Satan is to embrace rational inquiry removed from supernaturalism and archaic tradition-based superstitions.