Sentence examples for of immemorial from inspiring English sources

"The time has not yet arrived," says the Bishop, for such a course; such a course would "disturb statutes of immemorial standing," says the Bishop.

So if you care about the foreign victims of immemorial, immoral rituals, you will want to proceed carefully and perhaps learn from history.

"How often I have imagined this scene, and now it lies stretched before me full of immemorial history and of history now being daily made".

The rituals of the monarchy are glazed with a patina of immemorial heritage, but Queen Victoria, with her white dress and her twelve bridesmaids, basically invented the royal wedding as we know it, in 1840.

This slightly arch disguise of a French alter ego allows Hawthorne to pretend that the story is another of his "finds", and so invests it with a kind of immemorial halo - a cautionary fable from ancestral wisdom.

Because the president's language has to struggle to maintain the ceremonial pomp of the occasion, lofty similes and metaphors are the order of the day, and classical tropes, with names like Aegean islands, from Anaphora to Zeugma, are retrieved from storage to give the oration an air of immemorial antiquity.

Now, at the Bank Street Theater, in a co-production of the Peccadillo Theater Company and the Yangtze Repertory Theater of America, "The Shanghai Gesture" resurfaces as a flamboyant hybrid of soap opera, parable of East-West relations and restatement of the immemorial baseness of humanity.

For, whatever their claims to civilization, the British, too, were victims of the immemorial forces of human greed and violence that had received an unprecedented moral sanction in the political, scientific, and economic systems of the modern world.

Karoha and his fellow hunters, !Nqate Xqamxebe and the bow and arrow specialist Xlhoase Xlhokhne, are the focal figures of a film that reveals their remarkable skills as it displays the sere beauty of the landscape they inhabit at a time when civilization is encroaching and the survival of their immemorial way of life seems unlikely.

At the same time, Edvard Radzinsky writes, "a new myth has emerged about the czar and the peasant Rasputin as the preservers of the immemorial Russian ideas of Orthodoxy and autocracy" -- ideas now being appropriated by Yeltsin's successor, Vladimir Putin.

They march off to the wedding bed in a kind of robots' lockstep, symbolizing the grip of remorseless, immemorial tradition that ensures the immortality of the race even as it diminishes individual freedom of choice.