Sentence examples for would be archaic from inspiring English sources

Lazenby never signed a contract, with negotiations dragging on during production, and he was subsequently convinced by his agent Ronan O'Rahilly that the secret agent would be archaic in the liberated 1970s; as a result he left the role before the release of On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969.

Lazenby was offered a contract for seven films; however, he was convinced by his agent Ronan O'Rahilly that the secret agent would be archaic in the liberated 1970s, and as a result he left the series after the release of On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969.

Even his use of the word groin ("I could've translated it as 'loin,' but I felt that would be unnecessarily archaic") raises eyebrows, since Malchus made regrettably graphic observations.

Of course, all this would be totally archaic in our age of the Internet, Interstate and iPhone.

The makers of the flints would have been archaic humans, of a so far unknown species, whose ancestors left Africa at least a million years before the emergence of modern humans about 100,000 years ago.

Those identities may be archaic.

The new art must be archaic, jagged, abstracted.

Pastoralism was perceived to be archaic and backward.

But could my thinking be archaic fodder?

To act solely according to what families want would be not only archaic but immoral: just because someone wants something doesn't mean he should get it nor that his demand is right.

"The equitable ideal would be to modernise the archaic so that most of their values and institutions survive.