Sentence examples for medieval manner from inspiring English sources

Multiple setting in the medieval manner was used there.

Agnes de Mille's "Three Virgins and a Devil" is a comedy in medieval manner.

Weidmann is an exceptionally handsome male in the medieval manner; his features are those of an etching by Holbein of some German moyen-âge merchant, with an alert, inquiring, open, hungry eye, a well-cartilaged nose terminating in a cold, curious ball like that on the end of a thermometer, and a large, amply delineated classical mouth with adequate lips.

Morris long dreamed of weaving tapestries in the medieval manner, which he called "the noblest of the weaving arts".

They came to my house to take a break from their careers at Google or Airbnb, or their Ph.D. dissertations on Soviet film or medieval manners.

Americans therefore preserved for themselves not only the right to bear arms — rather than yielding that right to a strong central government — but also medieval manners: impulsiveness, crudeness, and fidelity to a culture of honor.

But the proletariat does not rule; rather, it is ruled in a mock-medieval manner, by benevolent tyrants more often than not female, in keeping, perhaps, with the feminist tendencies of Theosophy and Matilda Gage's militant suffragism.

Roving actors, minstrels, archery competitions, skittles and quoits will provide 15th-century style fun for all the family, ending with a feast where you're encouraged to indulge in some rather messy medieval table manners.

The ineluctable difficulty of idolising footballers when you never know what manner of medieval crime they're going to get up to next.

Poursuivant - French for "pursuing", this word conjures up all manner of medieval skulduggery for me, but in cycling terms refers to riders who are not leading - tete de la course - but are not in the peloton either.

And so, from the exalted realm of court manners and medieval allegory, Boccaccio dropped down into a milieu of calculation and ambition and realism — of merchants, after a day's work, sitting around the fire at an inn, with their boots on the grate, talking business and trading stories.