The orchestrion's odd combination of 21st-century technology and 19th-century aesthetics — the contraption harks back to orchestral simulators popular before the advent of recorded music — is sure to fascinate, he said.
A calculated reverse sweep and an elegant six over long-on off Ravichandran Ashwin stood out for their combination of 21st-century extravagance and 20th-century MCC textbook timing.
Classical kathak (the word means story or storyteller in Hindi) is a combination of centuries-old Hindu and Muslim dance traditions, in which dancers wear elaborate costumes and adorn their ankles with bells.
The grill's genius is its combination of centuries-old science (Newton's earliest discovery: grease rolls downhill) and the more recent principle that Americans will buy anything that makes them feel virtuous about eating grilled sausages and baby back ribs.
They thought that they must be voting by computer, not by a combination of nineteenth-century pen and paper and twenty-first-century technology of dubious reliability.
I like hanging out on Christianshavn, which has a beautiful combination of 18th-century warehouses and modern Scandinavian design.
His realistic operas on his own librettos represent a successful combination of 20th-century dramatic situations with the traditional form of Italian opera.
"It's a combination of 21st-century, computer-controlled milling and manufacturing equipment and old-world craftsmanship and attention to detail," he said of the process.
It has taken thousands of years, but a combination of 21st-century forensic science and luck has finally revealed what happened to Tutankhamun – the world's most famous pharaoh.
The country's outstanding handicraft is the production of ñandutí lace, which is thought to represent a combination of 16th-century needle lace-making techniques from Europe with Guaraní traditions.
At the October dinner, she had been in Shanghai for just a few hours, having taken a booth at the Design Art London fair the week before, and would be off again in a few days for an exhibition at Mr. Aaron's Paris store, the Didier Aaron gallery, which she had redecorated in a wacky combination of 18th-century French furniture and contemporary Chinese design.
