Sentence examples for essentially ancient from inspiring English sources

As I said before, nunchucks are essentially ancient, deadly weapons.

The schematic presentation of Zhu's cosmic theory of li pattern and qi cosmic vapor that lay in the background of his commentary to the Four Books easily opened him to charges of dualism and of reading abstract categories into the down to earth, essentially practical ancient texts.

"Chinese society hasn't essentially changed since ancient times.

The Bartman incident essentially happened in ancient history.

Then, in yet one more Hillel moment, he essentially invoked the ancient sage's "if I am not for myself" question.

Because it's running 1.6 – with an expectation that Dell will roll out 2.2 in the next few months – you're essentially using an ancient version of Android until, well, you're not.

The overarching plot is essentially about two ancient groups battling in psychic duels, taking over other people's minds, and the ordinary citizens that get stuck between the warring parties.

The common literary heritage is essentially that originating in ancient Greece and Rome.

On the whole, then, early tanks were essentially motorized versions of ancient siege machines.

The African continent essentially consists of five ancient Precambrian cratons Kaapvaal, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Congo, and West African that were formed between about 3.6 and 2 billion years ago and that basically have been tectonically stable since that time; those cratons are bounded by younger fold belts formed between 2 billion and 300 million years ago.

For example, ancient middens, essentially preserved dumps of food waste such as bones and shells, were studied to glean the historical diets of the Aleuts.