The archaic vessel that was found near Cherthala could have thrown light on the State's maritime history. |
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And unlike the previous use of archaic folk tunes, Cajun stomps and swamp water boogies just don't have the same traditionalist staying power. |
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Modern humans probably exterminated the world's other archaic humans, the Neanderthals in Europe. |
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The elegantly run-down synagogue evoked an archaic or abandoned temple from a nearly forgotten age. |
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I was on my way home from school when this bunch of jerks in archaic duds tried to drive a knife into me. |
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He yelled at me in an archaic dialect of Spanish, and I understood every word. |
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Cumbrian gamekeepers and stalkers have embraced Government plans to scrap archaic laws stopping the sale of game all year round. |
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Many larger vessels were made in this later period in imitation of archaic shapes, originally associated with bronze. |
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Indeed, this formulaic, strategic intermingling of text and image accentuates the use of the seated dynasts as so many redeployed archaic motifs. |
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For many ethnologists and anthropologists, collective identity does not represent the truth even among the most archaic communities. |
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Though the labyrinth has been explored for decades, the persistence of archaic survey techniques has led to only rudimentary maps. |
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The simple, archaic gesture, a performance of downcast eyes and busy hands, puts across a feminist rereading of the woman's straightjacket. |
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He is appealing for help from members of the public who own obsolete machines so he can unlock archaic files. |
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Computers would replace the archaic technique of creating an image on paper, transferring it to transparent cels and again onto film. |
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The Summer Palace at Beijing with its archaic temples, pavilions, huge mansions, lakes etc. make a superb picnic spot. |
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The priests were decked out in gray robes and surcoats which were decorated with archaic runes that Kefari didn't recognize. |
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Mrs Burdett was to be paid in marks, which is an archaic form of English currency. |
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Instead of searching for a modern definition of culture, Nietzsche transposes an archaic ideal of culture onto modern society. |
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In his hand he produced a worn scroll depicting several pictograms and archaic passages. |
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Although some of the terms used to describe the foundation stones are archaic, others are simply uncommon. |
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He was dressed in archaic plate armour and a long white cloak, which was held around his shoulders by a fine gold clasp. |
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It's a fairly meaningless, if archaic piece of self-indulgent flummery in most parts of Australia. |
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It was actually quite entertaining to watch grown men and women gesticulating and waving their arms around violently in an archaic tongue. |
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He retained archaic word choices and used footnotes to explain the meanings of those words. |
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It's an archaic term that first appeared in 1812-and it's erroneously used to describe any lucky bounce, good or bad. |
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It seeks to present ideas clearly, concisely, and directly, and to avoid legalese, archaic terms, and repetition. |
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This would put an end to the archaic anomaly that in the UK we are subjects, not citizens. |
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A group called the Knights Templars had secretly gathered information, ancient lore and archaic texts. |
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In short, the modernization of economic structures leads to a rise, rather than a decline, in archaic attitudes of mind. |
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Within a month of buying one, I disconnected my archaic home phone and took the cell everywhere. |
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Given these changes, it would seem logical that the survey would become an obsolete, archaic technology in a postmodern world. |
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By the end of the Eocene, modern orders and families replaced the archaic fauna of mostly extinct groups with no living descendants. |
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Concerts were staged in Hebrew and archaic Spanish, and ancient folklore dances were performed on Sunday. |
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Why can we not shun our archaic practices and methods and step into the new world. |
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Schaps, however, underestimates the market orientation of Greek agriculture in the later archaic period. |
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It is an archaic remainder of a bygone age which has no place in modern New Zealand. |
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The charm of these films relies not solely on the thrill of magic, but also on the appeal of the archaic and anachronistic. |
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Director of the Scottish Tourist Forum, Ivan Broussine, warned that archaic attitudes were threatening the health of the tourist industry. |
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Most dramatic of all are the tall, enigmatically smiling kouros, which are archaic statues of godlike young men. |
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The inner surface was still controlled by the archaic splenial, sometimes multiple splenials, as well as the coronoids. |
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The meaning of traditional astrological texts is frequently obscured by the use of archaic or obsolete terms. |
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It tasted appropriately archaic, like a library full of old leatherbound books where someone's been smoking a pipeful of something aromatic. |
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We suggest that the shallow epicratonic platform area of the Canadian Shield may have served as a refugium for relatively archaic taxa. |
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Fascinating though his company was, I thought him then an archaic figure, caught in a time warp with excessively reactionary views. |
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Say what you like about tired old unreconstructed eighties lefties, but one thing remains true about their creaking, archaic value system. |
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You know, it's time to throw out this archaic notion of age 30 as old or beginning middle age or whatever it is that gets people in such a tizzy. |
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In support of this claim, they invoke the archaic Greeks, often citing Hesiod's Works and Days, among other classical sources. |
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Arnold captured archaic folk songs of anonymous origin passed on orally through generations. |
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Libraries that use card indices may seem archaic, but they are actually very modern. |
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The two friendly moustached officers trundling along also exuded an archaic air with their starched white cotton shirts and trousers. |
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The costumes were a mix of traditional Korea, ye olde Denmarke, and 20th century styles both modern and archaic. |
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The style Maudslay employed is deliberately a little archaic, and in my judgement exactly right. |
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The play has inconsistencies of tone, and like all Shakespearean comedy, its jokes are archaic and arcane. |
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Most of the diseases she did not know, and she began to lose hope since most of the writing was ancient and archaic. |
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His attentiveness was insistent and intrusive, far more aggressive than the almost archaic courtesies of his brother. |
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It is presumably their archaic method of manufacture which give them a cachet and makes them a suitable present for foreign friends. |
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The opposite of modern is not really conservative, but archaic or ancient, or orthodox. |
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The wording was practically archaic and the message it conveyed was grimmer than it needed to be, in her opinion. |
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It is written in an archaic style and is full of references to antiquated Greek philosophy which students today can hardly comprehend. |
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It seeks to present ideas clearly and directly, and to avoid archaic terms, repetition, and verbosity. |
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They may have translated the archaic terms into scientific-sounding language, but it's the same old vitalism, dressed up as quantum physics. |
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South and west of this line people live by marginal agriculture and off archaic industries, such as fixing old cars and later junking them. |
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This is in reference to Gogan's tendency to use traditional verse forms and a plethora of archaic words in his poetry. |
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It shows a man in a grey mackintosh, surrounded by archaic listening equipment. |
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And then we got Greek naturalism coming along within 50 years, I mean, it was from the archaic period to the high classical period. |
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Classical literature is rich in lessons of character, but often gets a bad rap because of its archaic language and unfamiliar settings. |
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It looks back ultimately to the Works and Days of the archaic Greek poet Hesiod. |
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He is often coupled with the archaic poet Hesiod who wrote the Theogony and Works and Days. |
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Caesar's time, authoritatively printed in the calendar, has triumphed over the archaic oral proclamation of the kalends by the priesthood. |
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By discovering the archaic roots of Indian culture, he came to understand the deep structures of his own national folklore. |
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Humans who lived in the past and did not have modern anatomy are often referred to as archaic or primitive. |
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The chaotic transport conditions coupled with archaic port facilities are major stumbling blocks. |
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However, it was raining, making the less than positive holds rather unpleasant, and the bolting was rather archaic and very well spaced out. |
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Shields may seem archaic in this modern age of handguns and ball lightning, but they are a tradition that we should strive to preserve. |
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Around a quarter of million people living in these valleys speak Balti, an archaic Tibetan accent. |
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Those seeking to abuse the fast-developing connected digital era are mediated by archaic laws based on out-of-date concepts. |
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But Hari does an excellent job of ripping the banausic frontmen for archaic prejudice to shreds. |
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The so-called analog, one-channel version of television will soon be as archaic as a 1950 Studebaker. |
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The mansion that is a paradigm example of Georgian architecture is bordered by archaic gardens that cover more than an acre of land. |
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Avoid purple prose, that is over complicated or unnatural or archaic language. |
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We are inadvertently injuring those who are placed in our charge by continuing to use this archaic method of patient handling. |
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Yet voice-over is always a trifle distancing, and particularly so when the language of the 1770s sounds so archaic to our ears today. |
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Yes, he might appear distant and archaic but he is the heir to the throne and one day it will be his. |
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Something of that scatty, archaic, tender quality creeps into Garnett's book, too. |
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But in reality, Daylight Savings Time is an archaic holdover from a time when people relied on candles all the time. |
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One method through which this was achieved was by re-positioning the religious ritual forms as archaic survivals of a Hindu past. |
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She does not have a TV and her washing machine is an archaic model involving rubber hoses and a handle-operated mangle. |
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Blue Peter recommends sticking them into oranges to form a pomander, an archaic device to keep linen clothes fresh and sweet-smelling. |
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The party's modernising zeal is set to sweep away Britain's archaic alcohol restrictions. |
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That would have laid the groundwork for the success of the archaic bipedal hominids. |
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He blagged his way onto TV and ended up producing several game shows, archaic examples of cringeworthy family entertainment. |
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In addition, there are archaic elements, such as the antiarch and arthrodire placoderms as well as acanthodians. |
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The team found several species of archaic proboscideans called Palaeomastodons previously known from 32-million-year-old coastal sediments in Fayum, Egypt. |
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Matchmaking is still stuck within the constraints of numerous archaic portrayals. |
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The Ossetians of today, descendants of ancient Northern Iranians, predominantly resemble northern Iranians and Europeans and speak an archaic Iranian language. |
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Buddhism coexisted with archaic Hinduism in India and Sri Lanka, Taoism and Confucianism in China, the Bon religion in Tibet, and Shinto in Japan. |
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The shape of the vessel suggests American Indian pottery or other archaic forms for which the glazing technique may have seemed especially appropriate. |
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That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art. |
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We eventually migrated to a narrow, cobbled alleyway, an archaic space crammed with smartly dressed young people, the overflow from several dimly lit bars. |
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The kings and the Council of Elders are relics of an archaic system. |
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I'd guess that the average house in 1939 looked a lot like it did in 1928-which is to say, heavy, archaic, with beaded lampshades and classical motifs. |
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He liked the way the amplifier and the turntable and the speakers were all separate, and the archaic brittleness of the grey cables that connected them all. |
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While he enjoyed the experience once in the air, he found the process of booking the flight to be archaic and obscure. |
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Too many shows meet their demise way early because of an archaic way of counting. |
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There was one daunting, archaic elevator, and a flight of stairs with no lights. |
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She says men who kill women they love have a predisposition for violence and an archaic attitude toward women in their lives. |
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Glowing glyphs appeared on the edges, in some archaic, unknown language. |
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The walls resemble weatherboard, but cut in irregular widths so as to look even more archaic, as if these lapped boards were sawn from un-squared logs. |
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The counterargument, of course, is that this method of delivery is pretty archaic. |
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Arts with a long history aren't new to Robbins, who toured with her family performing medieval music on archaic instruments like the krummhorn and vielle. |
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He is a mature, barefoot, and bearded man in archaic costume, the toga sine tunica, which leaves most of his chest and right shoulder and arm bare. |
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In any event, the development of pharmacological drugs and community-based programs causes laws on commitment to a hospital to be regarded as archaic vestiges of a bygone era. |
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In certain cases, though, an archaic word may be retained in order to maintain the poetic rhyme and not lose the overall effect and value of the hymn. |
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The archaic ridiculousness of the original script is played for laughs. |
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The hallways were lined here and there with mirrors, and the creaky wooden floors had an old rug with archaic symbols winding with it, down the halls. |
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Vows declaring two individuals permanently one in the sight of God, a bond no one may put asunder, are taken as mostly a quaint rhetoric or archaic poetry. |
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The methods of selecting architects are drawn from archaic and insensitive World Bank guidelines that are not concerned about creating architecture. |
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On a dozen axes of values, then, there is a deep congruity, much of it reflecting the influence of the archaic epic bard on the nineteenth-century novelist. |
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Large units like divisions or corps are expensive and archaic. |
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This twisted defense of colonialism is as repulsive as it is supremacist and archaic. |
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The living rodent with the most archaic characters, most like the common ancestor of the Rodentia, is the sewellel or mountain beaver of the northwestern United States. |
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It would be imprudent to write them off as doomed archaic survivals. |
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I'm sorry, but on this issue your archaic misogynous views just stink. |
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Reading the business pages in the age of the Internet might lead you to imagine that creating a business with little more than sweat equity is an archaic notion. |
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Markets are archaic being unable to accept credit or debit cards, offering no changing facilities, with a limited choice of primarily lower cost unbranded goods. |
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There are some pretty archaic, long-held biases and prejudices that remain in place. |
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These morphological facts show that the pentadactyl limb arose after the fin-limb transition and is the product of the canalization of the phenotype of the archaic limbs. |
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Still others argue that it was a kind of induction into adulthood, or a hangover from archaic initiation rituals which leave traces in Plato's emphasis on education. |
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The cars never see the inside of a garage, because you wouldn't notice them there and because the garage is full of archaic games and pinball machines. |
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According to her, safe spaces are an unrealisable, archaic concept. |
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The company also plans to pay artists a higher royalty for songs downloaded online, while scrapping archaic methods for calculating Internet sales. |
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The first two of these are from poems in the style of traditional song lyrics, and thus represent an archaic state of the language preserved in a local dialect. |
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He may not use the archaic term, but we will get the idea anyway. |
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As an American student in Italy and Greece he fell sway to early Greek art, admiring the simple graphic forms of early black-figure vase painting and archaic Greek sculpture. |
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The vigour and simplicity of the archaic Greek temple is partly a Romantic construct, as archaeologists now tell us that they were painted all sorts of garish colours. |
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Pursuing a theme of archaic poetry, Xenophanes is the first to reflect systematically on the distinction between human opinion or guesswork and certain knowledge. |
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Sironi's peer in sculpture was Arturo Martini, who also used archaic forms to enliven the classical tradition in search of a non-rhetorical Fascist style. |
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The scales are covered with ganoin, a dense shiny substance like enamel, which gives the fish an archaic armoured appearance and makes it rather clumsy. |
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After first arguing that the centuries had no relevant authority, he asserts that curule officials originally used the archaic curiate assembly in civil matters. |
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Since then, what I've been trying to do, and I'm sure it's impossible, is to write in some kind of dateless modern English. I don't like archaic dialogue written out. |
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In pursuit of bigger game, I began searching for similar archaic behavior in humans, focusing on the apparently primitive vocalization of laughter. |
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For one so young, her mastery over this archaic tongue was surprising. |
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Several of Bangladesh's laws are controversial, archaic or in violation of the country's own constitution. |
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Other archaic English forms include wal, wale, whal, whalle, whaille, wheal, etc. |
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The Bornholmian dialect has maintained to this day many archaic features, such as a distinction between three grammatical genders. |
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However, certain idioms and expressions continue to include now archaic case declensions. |
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Lithuanian folk music is archaic, mostly used for ritual purposes, containing elements of paganism faith. |
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Besides, Oceanus appears as a representative of the archaic world that Heracles constantly threatened and bested. |
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According to these authors, art only becomes common beyond this switching point, signifying a change from archaic to modern humans. |
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An archaic view of hominid evolution, Polygenism, holds that different human peoples had differing origins. |
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The latter can be seen as a survival from an earlier stage in the language, very much like the more archaic Celtiberian language. |
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He used language to embellish his material, including the use of both poetical and archaic words. |
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In many archaic dwellings the central pillar does in fact serve as a means of communication with the heavens, with the sky. |
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The immunity to jamming signals is the main driver behind this seemingly archaic technique. |
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The English word terrible is usually used to translate the Russian word grozny in Ivan's nickname, but this is a somewhat archaic translation. |
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This Statenvertaling had its origins with the Synod of Dordrecht of 1618 and was thus in an archaic form of Dutch. |
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Fare has archaic past tense fore and rare past participle faren, but is normally weak now. |
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Estonian has 14 and Hungarian has 18, both with additional archaic cases used for some words. |
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Klein, who has worked extensively on ancient stone tools, describes the stone tool kit of archaic hominids as impossible to categorize. |
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The archaic term miller was commonly used in the 19th and early 20th centuries. |
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However, these figures do not take into account the large proportion of archaic or highly technical words, little used. |
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Michael Moorcock observed that many writers use archaic language for its sonority and to lend color to a lifeless story. |
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Byrd sets it in three sections, each beginning with a semichoir passage in archaic style. |
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He believed that the best poetry relied on contemporary language, and he disliked the use of decorative or purposefully archaic language. |
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After the Middle Ages, the word elf tended to be replaced by other terms, becoming archaic, dialectal, or surviving only in fossilised terms. |
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In English it was sometimes spelled Mussulman and has become archaic in usage. |
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Octante had been used in Switzerland in the past, but is now considered archaic, while in the Aosta Valley 80 is huitante. |
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Considered archaic or pejorative, the term Scotch has also been used for Scottish people, primarily outside Scotland. |
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In addition, more archaic pronouns and forms of mutation may be observed in Literary Welsh. |
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Elizabethan English may be technically modern, but compared to our contemporary language it is archaic. |
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In addition, Indohyus, carnivores, and an archaic group of meat-eating mammals called creodonts were included. |
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Anatomically modern humans evolved from archaic humans in the Middle Paleolithic, at least 300,000 years ago. |
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It follows from the examples above that Latvian and Livonian are structurally isomorphous with the archaic Estonian as documented by Wiedemann. |
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By the 12th century, the archaic kufic script gave way to the cursive style. |
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Crucially, the English common law was sufficiently flexible to adapt its archaic contractual rules into new formats suited to modern commerce. |
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A network of electronic telepaths, similar to the archaic Internet, spread across the globe and almost destroyed society. |
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Before he begins the difficult task of defining shamanism, Pearson implies that it is a panhuman and archaic phenomenon. |
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Practices such as the nine-to-five culture are archaic and can prevent people, taking up and staying in jobs. |
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In loco parentis' is a rather archaic Latin term, but the literal translation is not so mystical. |
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A glance at the generic denominations will show that culver, which appears as the hyperonym in Old English, is now considered rare or archaic. |
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As such some early scholars felt that the legal system was essentially unchanging and archaic. |
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Generally, modern humans are more lightly built than archaic humans from which they have evolved. |
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This contrasts with archaic humans, where the brow ridge is pronounced and unbroken. |
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Compared to archaic people, anatomically modern humans have smaller, differently shaped teeth. |
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However, they also stated that the study did not rule out archaic introgression to modern humans. |
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Some linguists are of the opinion that there is a connection here with mesel, an archaic term for a leper, but this has yet to be proven. |
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Wolfgang Paalen eventually was the only Surrealist to defend feminism, although in a very archaic sense. |
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The countryside, in short, was becoming more archaic and more autarkic. |
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Pipe smoking, until recently one of the most common forms of smoking, is today often associated with solemn contemplation, old age and is often considered quaint and archaic. |
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As in the Scandinavian languages, lappalainen is often considered archaic or pejorative, and saamelainen is used instead, at least in official contexts. |
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Other usage is typically considered archaic, poetic or stylistic. |
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Feminist critics believe that it adopts archaic attitudes toward women, such as worshiping them symbolically through stereotypes and sexist norms. |
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From the towns, from the counties as wholes, and from many of its ancient lordships, the crown was entitled to archaic dues in kind, such as honey. |
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We discard the archaic rule that one cannot enfeoff oneself. |
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It is high time horseracing in Britain dispensed with the archaic heel digging, stick prodding, often inaccurate, guesstimates about the state of the going. |
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The engineers at AMC have wrought a minor miracle in modifying this archaic transmission so that it is merely inconvenient instead of being an outright disappointment. |
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During Upper Paleolithic times they spread throughout Africa, Eurasia, Oceania, and the Americas, and they encountered archaic humans along the way during these migrations. |
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The Oligocene is often considered an important time of transition, a link between the archaic world of the tropical Eocene and the more modern ecosystems of the Miocene. |
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For example, the sentence I am not with the copula be is fully idiomatic, but I know not with a finite lexical verb, while grammatical, is archaic. |
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Long before the days of the early military bands with shawms, serpents, hautboys, and other archaic instruments, troops marched into battle singing. |
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It is argued that archaic globalization did not function in a similar manner to modern globalization because states were not as interdependent on others as they are today. |
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Genetic studies indicate some form of hybridization between archaic humans and modern humans had taken place after modern humans emerged from Africa. |
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This continues to this day as an archaic custom in the Lords to assert the independence from the Crown, even though the select vestries have long been abolished. |
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In some cases, the first known representation of a myth in geometric art predates its first known representation in late archaic poetry, by several centuries. |
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There is still an unfortunate tendency to territorialize dance, but none of us is served particularly well when we hang on to our archaic divisions and academic prejudices. |
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The poem dates to the archaic period of Classical Antiquity. |
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Many of the grammatical features that a modern reader of Shakespeare might find quaint or archaic represent the distinct characteristics of Early Modern English. |
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However, evidence for archaic admixture in modern humans, both in Africa and later, throughout Eurasia has recently been suggested by a number of studies. |
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Bertram fully adopted the suggestion and published his account under the name Ricardus Corinensis, from the archaic Latin form of Cirencester's name. |
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The central part of the mandible forming the chin carries a triangularly shaped area forming the apex of the chin called the mental trigon, not found in archaic humans. |
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Compared to archaic people, modern humans have smaller, lower faces. |
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In the 2010s, genomic testing of living populations has located archaic admixture of modern humans outside of Africa with Neanderthals and Denisovans. |
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In what is thought to be an archaic survival in some versions of Iorwerth it is stated that women are not entitled to act as sureties or to give sureties. |
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