Sentence examples for less ancient from inspiring English sources

The French are the canonical "nation", even if this identity is more constructed and less ancient than most Frenchmen realise.

JF What's funny, listening to you, is how much less ancient this all seems than my own early 20s.

Another carbon lamp projector, but larger, and less ancient, showed Jean Epstein's beautiful coastal romance Coeur Fidèle (1923).

Still, at times the bakers carrying long rods loaded with discs of dough and sprinting to get them into the oven recall a less ancient phenomenon — the Olympics.

Italians believe they still live in a country free of the sort of irrational acts of violence that afflict less ancient societies.

Written records in other civilizations are less ancient, but in China, India, Java, and elsewhere in Asia there are ancient traditions of puppet theatre, the origins of which cannot now be determined.

It first aired in 2000, so has the advantage of looking less stylistically ancient than Friends, and Lauren Graham is a better actor than her more famous contemporaries.

Dionysian Dancers In fact, though this exhibition recently opened the library's six-month citywide Hellenic Festival, which offers Greek-themed concerts, readings, lectures and dance, the growing conviction as you proceed through the show is that there is far less of ancient Greece on display than its avant-gardist acolytes would have acknowledged.

The stories, the admonitions, the dramatic scenes must have seemed less opaque in ancient days.

But the performance was less about reviving ancient battles than about looking at Brahms afresh.

And the Gulf states, which insist that they are less mired in ancient hatreds, must be urged to step out of the shadow of Riyadh and Cairo and do what they already know is necessary.