Sentence examples for really roman from inspiring English sources
Is this onyx cameo that looks so like the artist really Roman or did Perry carve it himself?
Whether or not these earlier types were really roman, there would seem to be no reason for putting the production of the first clearly recognizable roman any later than the work of a Frenchman, Nicolas Jenson, who had learned printing in Germany and set up business in Venice at about the time the von Speyer monopoly ran out.
The first really notable roman type had been cut by Jenson for a text by Cicero in 1470.
The Hippodrome of Constantinople (really a Roman circus, not the open space that the original Greek hippodromes were) was connected to the emperor's palace and the Church of Hagia Sophia, allowing spectators to view the emperor as they had in Rome.
Really Greco-Roman wrestle it or something.
Last night my daughter, an 8th grader at a Jewish day school, said to me, "Mom, a lot of kids at my school think that the Jews killed Jesus, but it was really the Romans, right?" After I caught my breath - for the second time yesterday over the same issue - I replied, "Well, at least that part of my Union Theological Seminary education has filtered down to you.
Brideshead Revisited is really a platonic, Roman Catholic allegory.
Never mind the amorphous theme, which really befits only Roman Opalka's obsessive number painting and On Kawara's compulsive date recording.
Ben Carson looks more like a third-century soldier: he has great dignity, but he doesn't really resemble any Roman emperors.
If you want to know what "ancient Roman" really means, in terms of war and religion and love and parties, read "Memoirs of Hadrian".
