Sentence examples for something archaic from inspiring English sources

Something archaic about them makes them seem strange and otherworldly.

To them, heavy industry was something archaic, which you saw in a book.

I believe that there is something archaic about America's being the policeman for the wrongs in the world.

The biographer summons his subject with easy authority, his descriptions poised between sympathy and skepticism: "One senses something archaic about him.

"Someday in the future, people will look back at a regular surgical incision as something archaic and barbaric," Dr. Paul A. Wetter, chairman of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, said Friday.

'When he sings, you hear something very archaic - like the roots of the blues.

There was something pleasingly archaic about reading lectures given so long ago, and still full of the speaker's housekeeping notes: "Next Thursday it will be the motive of Encounter — the experience of two people meeting in love.

Today cooks use it mainly for flavouring: we still have a taste for it, and although fatback or salted hock could substitute for it in most recipes, there is something pleasantly archaic about it even if it was formerly a byword for deprivation at sea, rather like scurvy.

For the smartphone generation, the idea that you have to sit in front of the TV at a very specific time to watch something is archaic and unconceivable.

There is something at once archaic and new in the company's orientation toward the Empire State Building.

But there was something rather more archaic about this story, too: the way it was reported, the packaging and the framing of it.