Sentence examples for mixture of ancient from inspiring English sources

The result is an uneasy mixture of ancient tradition and contemporary spectacle.

An astounding mixture of ancient and modern art complements the cultural life of Mexico City.

So the mixture of ancient and modern features appears to set these hominins apart as a separate species of Homo.

WITH its mixture of ancient dignity and modern power, the papacy is unlike any other job in the world.

What may intrigue those who don't know much about India is this odd mixture of ancient and modern that holds the Verma family in its thrall.

The wood is a mixture of ancient woodland (defined as having existed continuously since 1600), semi-ancient woodland and some more modern plantation.

Medieval medicine was basically a mixture of the ancient "four humors" theory and the astrological formulations of the Arabic physicians of the end of the first millennium.

This mixture of The Ancient Mariner, Orson Welles and Ruiz's own distinctive voice makes for a film that takes one, like the haunted sailor, off the beaten track.

Directed with creativity and force by Katie Mitchell, the opera is a bracing, beautiful mixture of the ancient and contemporary that brings a medieval legend about an illuminated book and a troubled marriage provocatively into our time.

Classics: A Very Short Introduction, by Mary Beard and John Henderson, read by Tim Bentinck (3hrs 42miNaxosaxos, £13.99) Along with media and sports studies, classical civilisation - a dumbed-down mixture of classics, ancient history and archaeology - has become one of those subjects whose remit is so vast and imprecise it's seen as a bit of a doddle.

Located in the Lombardy region of Northern Italy, Milan is a vibrant city with a mixture of both ancient and modern influences.