Quotes About Archaic

My music sounds different because the techniques are archaic, seeing as most people only record digitally.

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The 8th is also the gateway into the underworld, the transitional place where we discover that we are not masters of our lives, but must bow to more archaic, primal needs and patterns that are larger and older than any individual. The meaning

No; I want to send a telegram, if there's any electric fluid in this old tomb.

The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.

Protestantism. Latin. viand n. (usually viands) ARCHAIC an item of food: an unlimited assortment of viands. late Middle English: from Old French viande 'food', from an alteration of Latin vivenda, neuter plural gerundive of vivere 'to live'. via negativa n. a philosophical approach to theology which asserts that no finite concepts or attributes can be adequately used of God, but only negative terms.

Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel.

This 'archaic' stage of Sumerian script is not wholly understood by modern scholarship; and Sumerology is a tightly-knit, somewhat secretive academic discipline, which does not make it easy for the outsider to form a clear view of the current state of knowledge in the field.

'Canticum Sacrum' is wonderfully archaic. What Stravinsky does is extraordinary. It takes you on a journey from Gregorian chant right through to the modernism of Webern - and all in 17 minutes.

A millennial belief in a Holy God may have the effect of deepening the soul, but it is also obviously archaic, and modern influences would presently bring me up to date and reveal how antiquated my origins were. To turn away from those origins, however, has always seemed to me an utter impossibility. It would be a treason to my first consciousness to un-Jew myself.

Only a thoughtless observer can deny that correspondences come into play between the world of modern technology and the archaic symbol-world of mythology.

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Adam Freedman points out in his book on legalese, "What distinguishes legal boilerplate is its combination of archaic terminology and frenzied verbosity, as though it were written by a medieval scribe on crack.

I think the most influential aspect of my work is to show that Judaism and Christianity exist in a continuity with archaic religions.

History had led me to this archaic grave. History, indeed, was all I had after everything else ended in mocking Satanism.

Only dialectical images are genuine images (that is, not archaic); and the place where one encounters them is language.

I don't think marriage is in the cards for me. I think it's an archaic institution.

Obnubilés par la productivité, nos contemporains sont à l'évidence très en retard, en matière de réduction du temps de travail, sur ces sociétés archaïques. S'ils nous voyaient, les moujiks surexploités se demanderaient pour quelle étrange raison nous continuons de travailler. Nous devrions sans répit nous poser la même question.

My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the family, and the houses I associate with his side of the family, belonged to a traditional rural Ireland.

What was then an augury for direction of action among the ruins of an archaic mentality is now the search for an innocence of certainty among the mythologies of facts.

In modernism, as I will try to show later on, some residual zones of "nature" or "being" of the old, the older, the archaic, still subsist; culture can still do something to that nature and work at transforming that "referent." Postmodernism is what you have when the modernization process is complete and nature is gone for good.

After spending so much time in America, I started travelling with 'In Defence of English Cooking' by George Orwell. It's archaic and old-fashioned in its Englishness and reminds me of home.

Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.

Admittedly there could have been interbreeding between archaic and modern Homo sapiens, but there is no convincing evidence for this in our male and female gene lines. So