Sentence examples for while the ancient from inspiring English sources

Gotch was celebrated for his palette of golds and russets (no one did autumn quite like him), while the Ancient Mariner is all salt-lashed blues and greys.

And while the Ancient Order has now stepped back from direct parade organization, some on the current voluntary committee are still Order members.

MacColl's establishment of the Ballads and Blues club in Soho in 1953 gave birth to a folk revival that remains in vigorous health today, while the ancient and industrial ballads he exhumed and championed are still being explored.

While the ancient Greeks and others conducted experiments, he said, Dr. Gilbert was the first person to methodically tie these observations to theories he proposed and to detail the experiments so that others could reproduce them.

The town of Durango will put you in mind of sheriffs and gunslingers, while the ancient Indian pueblo ruins in the San Juan Mountains, and the adobe dwellings on rock cliffs at Mesa Verde national park, are awe-inspiring.

While the ancient Greeks were familiar with the positive integers, rationals, and reals, zero (used as an actual number instead of denoting a missing number) and the negative numbers were first used in India, as far as is known, by Brahmagupta in the 7th century ce.

Contemplating a plaster model of the sculpture in his office, Warren later wrote that while the ancients entered cities through triumphal gates that punctuated mighty fortifications, in New York and other cities the gateway is more likely to be "a tunnel which discharges the human flow in the very center of the town".

It was called Liquid Music festival and I intended for the musicians to rise up (in live virtual reality) from the lake in front of the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ while playing the ancient Canto de la Sibilla.

While the 25m people in the Amazon and their local politicians welcome the opening of new horizons the question troubling scientists, environmental policymakers and campaigners is whether all these riches can be delivered while leaving the ancient trees of the Amazon standing.

They said at least four people were wounded during a firefight between opposition and pro-government crowds in the northern Christian village of Halba, while in the ancient Christian town of Byblos, a gunman fired on protesters wounding three people before soldiers arrested him.

The new proposal of China, while reviving the ancient concept of the Silk Road, aims to carry forward the spirit of peace, cooperation, openness and inclusiveness for shared benefits.