Sentence examples for was much revived from inspiring English sources

Stained glass was much revived in the early 20th century.

Oscar Wilde's work is being much revived now on stage and screen, and it is well to be reminded that Salome and Lady Windermere were not his only creations.

The Renaissance in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries was much more than just a reviving of interest in Greek and Roman culture; it was rather a change of outlook, an eagerness for discovery, a desire to escape from the limitations of tradition and to explore new fields of thought and action.

Spurring foreign investment and reviving internal confidence was much of the rationale for recent updates to the Commercial Code pushed by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

Biblical Hebrew was not so much revived as made the basis for a new language, which probably doesn't bear much resemblance to the original spoken tongue.

Most shows by Rodgers and Hart are not so much revived as rewritten and overhauled.

There will doubtless also be much talk of reviving the old orange alliance between Mr Yushchenko's party and Yulia Tymoshenko, his revolutionary ally and one-time prime minister, for whom every crisis brings fresh opportunity.The trouble is that, whatever its constitutional arrangements, Ukraine will for the foreseeable future be governed by corrupt, discredited politicians.

The 1970s have been much reviled and much revived, as Andy Beckett – author of the excellent When the Lights Went Out (Faber) – put it so well.

He isn't so much reviving traditional ideas as revealing what he seems to consider enduring truths.

So the economy may now prove to be much weaker and harder to revive than people assume.

Rudlin's prize-winning vision of a new generation of garden cities is much more radical, and based on reviving the garden-city economic model last used for postwar new towns in Britain.