Sentence examples for as the ancient from inspiring English sources

As the ancient Greeks said, hubris comes before nemesis.

Robert Brubaker sang punchily as the ancient husband; Susan Bickley conveyed eloquent distress as Smith's mother.

As the ancient philosophers said, there is no truth in astronomy.

The judiciary is as rickety as the ancient British bangers that still lurch around downtown Yangon.

This is a tribe, in the modern sense as well as the ancient one.

As the ancient joke runs, what's the difference between capitalism and communism?

This world has appeared as the Ancient Greece of Euripides and as Strindberg's Scandinavian nightmare.

The world did not end on Friday as the ancient Maya calendar foretold.

People had the idea for this precursor of photography as far back as the ancient Greeks.

You can ignore shadows when you are drawing, as the ancient Greeks did, for example.

It was the beginning of Crowhurst's career as the Ancient Mariner.