Sentence examples for sound ancient from inspiring English sources

Together, they make an astounding sound, ancient and other-worldly.

Worse, it inevitably makes the critic sound ancient.

It shifted keys and tempos, masked its blues form in the theme sections and could sound ancient — older than the Delta blues for instance — or modern.

A jangly, reverb-laden old piano and Peter Buck's 12-string guitar made this music sound ancient, somehow; Mike Mills' sad, descending bassline in the chorus only deepened its melancholy.

In the same way, the straightened, vibrato-less tone that Anonymous 4 produces, along with the touches of portamento and the little two-note downward hitches that serve as accent points, sound ancient and American at the same time.

The score for "Gladiator" is an improbable collaboration by Hans Zimmer, the prolific film composer who scored "The Lion King," and Lisa Gerrard, who sang and played early-music instruments with Dead Can Dance, a group dedicated to creating new songs intended to sound ancient.

IT'S true that 59 sounds ancient for a dancer, but the sight of Vicky Shick might change your mind.

Seeking old purpose in new songs and vice versa, Mr. Young and company sounded ancient and ageless.

Again vocal and instrumental sounds are combined in irregular verses, but now the music sounds ancient and undiscovered.

"Their music still sounds ancient, mysterious, haunted," David Gates wrote here in 2002, and though this biography is flawed, "sometimes Zwonitzer and Hirshberg get the Carters' strangeness just right".

It allows for maximum freedom while holding down the center; it sounds ancient while letting in all the rhythms and phrase-shapes of the moment.