Sentence examples for certain antiquity from inspiring English sources

The windowless third floor, the site of the galleries, gave the building a certain antiquity, accentuated by the 14-foot-long aluminum sculpture over the doorway by Wheeler Williams: a woman holding a torch floats over a reclining young man.

If you're of a certain antiquity, you may recall a protest that was held in the 1980's against the shadows that an earlier version of this building would have cast on Central Park.

From antiquity certain days were devoted to intercession for particular groups of the dead.

First, he flatly dismisses claims about the great antiquity of certain monuments in India that allegedly refute the Bible's chronology and of certain records that name people who lived before Adam.

What Europe does claim is a certain tradition reaching back to Greek antiquity.

"No matter how much we may shrink with horror from certain situations — of a galley-slave in antiquity, of a peasant during the Thirty Years' War, of a victim of the Holy Inquisition, of a Jew awaiting a pogrom — it is nevertheless impossible for us to feel our way into such people...

But if nothing certain was known about Andronicus in late antiquity, how can we establish the date of his edition of Aristotle?

I would add these points: First, it takes some nerve for certain Mediterranean countries to claim that all antiquities found in their territories belong to them.

In 2007 the sides reached a tentative agreement that would have set up a long-term collaboration and granted title of the disputed antiquities to Peru while allowing a certain number to remain at Yale for study and display.

In 2007 the sides reached a tentative agreement that would have set up a long-term collaboration and granted title of the disputed antiquities to Peru while allowing a certain number, including the piece above, to remain at Yale for study and display.

I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.