Sentence examples for archaic version from inspiring English sources

It's like an archaic version of it".

"There was a kind of archaic version at six months," DeFeo recalled to a curator some years before she died.

It might have meant something else during the Moorish occupation of Spain, when an archaic version — made with bread, water, garlic and oil — was probably going strong.

Only the barest traces remain of the gruesome punishments meted out here by the Taliban in their archaic version of Islamic justice.

This was not some archaic version of the Edinburgh festival or Latitude: it was deeply embedded in the heart of state politics, imperialism, warfare and religion, in ways that we might find unfamiliar or uncomfortable.

The lofty towers of Gothic architecture led to much larger, more resonant bells and gave rise to an archaic version of the present campaniform bell: tulip-shaped with a narrow, rounded top; a long, straight waist spreading outward at the bottom; and a flared mouth, or sound bow.

You see, she wasn't a natural, or a great talent - except in Pandora's Box and there, coming right at the end of the silent era, she is so good that she makes us ashamed at giving so much patience to fatuously archaic versions of womanhood as were offered by Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford and Janet Gaynor.

Growing up in Italy at the end of the 90s, net artist Franziska von Guten found herself spending hours online in chat rooms that were a lot like archaic versions of the social networks we use today.

At the other end is a quality which – if he squirms at words like "spiritual" – none the less belongs to somewhere removed, to some archaic or geological version of time, rather than the here and now.

I had written a post where it might have been suggested in a totally humorous way that the sport of curling was silly and would never be taken seriously by Americans because the rules made no sense, plus there was this obscure entry in the puzzle that had to do with curling (HOG SCORE, an archaic but legit version of the modern HOG LINE).

Jammed between the righteousness of punk's Rock Against Racism and the multiracial cool of 2 Tone, Oi was a fizzing mess of contradictions - combining self-parody with wilful ignorance and a desperate nostalgia for an absurdly archaic music hall version of East End proletarianism.