Sentence examples for slightly archaic from inspiring English sources

It is based on an earlier print, which accounts for its slightly archaic look and caption.

He reserves a slightly archaic folk-art style for his pen-and-pencil drawings on textiles.

A call seems slightly archaic; like the Rachel cut or carbs.

It's a fight waged largely with long words over big issues that now feel small, not to mention slightly archaic.

And, to borrow another slightly archaic posh phrase, it would indeed be just the ticket for a Sunday roast.

Although the figures look slightly archaic, the beauty of the landscape setting, with its soft melting distances, unmistakably reveals the hand of the painter of The Tempest.

This language is slightly more archaic than the contemporary Middle Mongolian recorded in Chinese transcription in the Secret History of the Mongols (c. 1240) and in other texts and glosses in the Chinese, 'Phags-pa, Persian, and Latin scripts.

CONVENTIONAL wisdom holds that party platforms are only slightly less archaic than torchlight parades on election eve -- a grab bag of dogma for true believers at a time when nearly every candidate wants to run as a centrist, wooing the swing voters of the suburbs.

Another is the slightly more archaic style of Vaticanus, and the complete absence of ornamentation.

Often, mobility is not recognised by governments as generating a viable production system but is perceived to be an archaic and slightly shameful form of traditional behaviour that should be stopped as soon as possible to facilitate real 'development' (Morton 2010).

In particular, Fry gave the dialogue a slightly more formal and archaic tone without making it sound stilted and medieval.