Sentence examples for burden of ancient from inspiring English sources

These iconoclasts would happily leave behind the burden of ancient stones and get on with the church's real mission.

The main burden of the ancient Latin poet Lucretius Dee rerum natura ("On the Nature of Things") is a presentation of the materialism of the Greek philosopher Democritus, and an embodiment of the worldview of medieval Roman Catholicism is the very warp and woof of Dante's Divine Comedy and such considerations (it would be contended) are relevant to these works as literature.

She would have given up her life in California, moved home and "taken up the ancient burden of unpaid female altruism.

While they were often viewed as benevolent protectors, they also carried the ancient burden of being pariahs, or scavengers, and were sometimes seen as symbols of sexual promiscuity, as Edgar Peters Bowron, curator of European art at the Houston museum, notes in his catalog essay.

Despite considerable reductions in the overall burden of malaria in the 20th century, this ancient disease still represents a significant public health problem in China, especially in the southern and central regions.

Arts of Ancient Viet Nam.

They are of ancient origin.

Ventriloquism is of ancient origin.

The vast state of ancient….

"Treasures of Ancient China".

Tyson questioned its vaunting of ancient wisdom.