Sentence examples for unlike ancient from inspiring English sources

Though both are relatively modern, unlike ancient classic games like chess, their place in the eternal Puzzle Hall of Fame is assured.

He noted that, unlike ancient cities such as Copán and Caracol, which were built around a central core, the Mosquitia cities were spread out — "more like L.A". than like New York.

Unlike ancient bones and stone tools, language does not fossilize.

Bluntly, unlike the ancient grandees hanging on the high walls of his beige office, he is no oil painting.

Unlike the ancient Hebrews, they have no miracles to call on and no Promised Land to flee to.

"The crew grew perceptibly nervous," he says, "not unlike what ancient mariners must have felt as they ventured into unknown seas".

Unlike the ancient Greeks, who considered man the "measure of all things", we feel at home in an infinitely expansive cosmos.

He would talk for hours with Sang-bong Lee, a featherweight whom he had befriended, arriving at a pugilistic philosophy not unlike the ancient Hwarang warriors, who eschewed the idea of retreat in battle.

Any comparison between Alexander the Great and Higgins might be considered an absurd stretch, but unlike the ancient Greek, undefeated in his fourth-century BC battles, the Scottish cueman does have more worlds to conquer.

Harry's wisdom is the Stoics', with their fatalism and their belief in endurance and perseverance, he argues: "Fate shapes Harry's life, but his responses to it are not unlike what ancient philosophers such as Zeno, Marcus Aurelius, or Seneca would suggest".

Unlike fish, ancient aquatic arthropods apparently fared well out of water.