Sentence examples for somewhat ancient from inspiring English sources

At twenty-six, Frey considers herself somewhat ancient, and feels lucky to have the inspiration of youth.

An exposure to different, and somewhat ancient, types of music in this atmosphere made a lasting impression on Guilty.

Secondly, the dataset we used is somewhat ancient in itself, having been generated in the 1990s.

The lack of clearly increased sequence difference is somewhat surprising since several of the inversions are present at moderate frequencies and are therefore presumed to be fairly ancient alleles.

Others, like the Via Macelli di Soziglia or Via di Prè, have retained their somewhat seamy ancient air, but are safe to walk.

This 130-page book grabbed my attention with the idea of the pleasure of wine espoused with an adventure into a somewhat mystical ancient culture.

They are justifiably well known as one of the great evolutionary sequences preserved in the fossil record, illustrating the evolution of mammals from an ancient, somewhat lizard-like ancestor.

One is reminded here of Archilochus's ancient and somewhat baffling adage: "The fox knows many things - the hedgehog knows one big thing".

And not to be ignored is the venerable George S. Irving, double cast (somewhat confusingly) as the ancient Merlyn and the doddering Pellinore.

Only instead of cheering for gladiators and hungry lions, contemporary Romans are paying to see a more ancient and somewhat more high-minded form of entertainment, "Oedipus Rex".

To the reflexively jaundiced modern eye, Gandhi evokes a presence seemingly ancient and somewhat naïve, but naïve is the last word you could apply to Gandhi, who wedded moral insights to a shrewd tactical sense of politics and public opinion.