How To Use ancientness In A Sentence
- And if he gets his way, then there would be another occasion for textual frotteurism and iconographical link-orgy: a sculptural band of friezes in which we see the wannabe urban planner in the guise of the Angel of Modernism — Meier Dux, the liberator of the Eternal City from its own ancientness. Sewer Zeppelins for the Era of Infrastructural Anarchy & Other Roman Tales
- As I sucked the iceberg piece, contemplating its ancientness, trying to taste the armor of Caesar or the ash of Krakatoa in infinitesimal traces, the pristine cold water seemed to evaporate through my membranes with no intervening stage.
- Not to betray my ancientness, but I have been around for every incarnation of this place.
- To see an opera like Manon in a structure such as Colon is to experience the ancientness and severity of talent that opera enjoys. Nicole Campoy-Leffler: Sing To Me: Il Postino, Manon, Cosi Fan Tutte
- The conditions placed on karate were therefore doubly contradictory: karate needed a modernization that declared its traditionality, and it needed to found this ancientness on a history that effaced much of its past. Karate and Modernity: A Call for Comments
- As an artist I'm not that interested in the landscape itself, rather what made it what it is - the energy, the ancientness, the layers and time that have shaped it.
- On one of its guests making some remarks on the "ancientness" of its appearance, The Romany Rye
- In a speech, she protested the modern Jewish attitude of condescension based on the ancientness of Judaism, adding that “the glories of which we boast become mere crutches to a limping self-esteem.” Elsie K. Sulzberger.
- I had arrived at some deep, palpable ancientness, at the womb of the world, where virtually everything was and will be created. Shulamith Hareven.
- Self-naming offers a safe way for a pontiff to boast of Christian ancientness.