Sentence examples for relics around from inspiring English sources

Yet there are many "secular relics" around the world that carry as much, if not more significance for their devotees.

Mr. Madsen moves these inanimate relics around with great energy but never truly makes them come alive.

You open a drawer to the past for the purpose of moving some old relics around as though curating an exhibit, and then something with life still in it jumps up and bites you.

There were relics around Gipsy House of the losses: a trunk in Dahl and Neal's room that contained Olivia's clothes and toys; a prototype of the Dahl-Wade-Till shunt in a frame, hanging on the wall.

The solemn processing of Richard III's relics around the villages of Leicestershire followed by a grand, archbishop-led reinterment service is reminiscent of the saints' cults of the middle ages.

The result of a lifetime's hunt for whalebone memorials and relics around Britain, Redman's quirky quest takes him from Whitby's famous whale bone arch, via the skeleton of a sperm whale decaying in the grounds of Burton Constable Hall, Hull, to a blue whale skeleton set up in Trafalgar Square in 1829.

But the world we live in is often stupider than fiction: keeping the deadly relic lying around isn't just an honestly expressed opinion – it's the dominant political orthodoxy.

In the heart of the tomb would be the pivotal relic around which the show would revolve, a flint hand axe 250,000 years old, the tool that begat all tools.

Unsurprisingly, there are a number of others also moving into the same space as Nexthink, including Microsoft, VMware and Riverbed, as well as others like New Relic around the same neighborhood of services.

As the Game Boy became something of a relic around 1996, I part-exchanged most of my games and moved on to the SNES, a glut of PC strategy and FPS titles, and the N64, my interest in video games waning steadily until my mid-20s.

In an intemperate article last year, Gregory Clark of the University of California, Davis, described these numbers as "fictions, as real as the relics peddled around Europe in the Middle Ages".