Sentence examples for blend of ancient from inspiring English sources

The Assay Office in the City of London is an intriguing blend of ancient and modern.

Like the town's blend of ancient pubs and haute cuisine, beach bums and gallerists, the contrast was stark but welcoming.

In reality, American Indian life has long been a blend of ancient traditions and pop culture flotsam.

And, of course, the Croatian city of Split was the usual fascinating blend of ancient and modern".

Measurements of the bones show that the creature has a curious blend of ancient ape and modern human-like features.

The best surviving example is Goofy Golf, which has a blend of ancient monuments, space-age icons and a couple of monsters.

It is a world in which all places, regardless of location, history or culture, embody a "bewitching blend of the ancient and modern".

The blend of the ancient - the art of penmanship, the scribery - and the modern: the transmission of this penmanship via the ether to appear, as if by magic, on a page in a far-distant country.

Lowell Pettit's clever set blends hints of ancient Rome (flats painted and mounted to evoke marble columns) with that of America today (TV cameras mounted on both sides of the stage).

Foreigners have long vaunted the ingenuity and daring of the Fascist architects, who sought to blend the classicism of ancient Rome with 20th-century functionalism and rationalism.

The blending of the ancient and the modern is a preoccupation of her novels on many levels, and comes through in the way she addresses gender.