Sentence examples for relics of learning from inspiring English sources

Here Catholic monks have preserved a few relics of learning from the ravages of time - and from the attentions of mobs angry at the ills technology has brought them and eager for "simplification".

Though the Old Man is no more, the site is still well worth a visit to see relics of its past, learn about the geologic forces that brought about its demise and have an ice cream.

Hendrick's first teacher, the engraver, poet, and philosopher Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert, was a relic of an older, learned, relatively tolerant Catholicism about to be smashed between the grindstones of Calvinist iconoclasm and Counter-Reformation image veneration.

Rather than treat these creatures as relics, might we learn something from their methods, take a page out of their handbooks, adopt a little of that romantic Victorian approach in an effort to return to ourselves?

That image of learning is a relic of the 20th Century too.

Learning about silent letters is absolutely baffling to a lot of children, for example, but "as relics of earlier pronunciations, they are interesting ways of signalling how the language has changed over time".

"These are relics of the last century.

There are plenty of relics of Soviet times.

The relics of classical music are no less venerated.

My aunt's VHS tapes are relics of my childhood.

Some will dismiss them as relics of another era.