Sentences with phrase «ancient times seemed»

Each culture since ancient times seemed to embrace the simple and rustic nature of this drink, adding their own special touches yet keeping the authentic characteristics intact.

Not exact matches

«It is like being first on the ground in Canada years ago,» Jones says, adding, «There is no local technical knowledge in Egypt because no one has been exploring for what seems like forever, back to ancient times.»

When gold futures hit an all time high of $ 1,913 an ounce last Tuesday, it seemed our modern civilization was no different from the ancients in its love affair.

It seems almost a banal occurrence in ancient times.

The remarks Badian made some time ago in connection with the study of the deification of Alexander the Great are apposite in this respect: «Modern Jews and Christians, or modern rationalists, from their different points of view, have always found it difficult to believe that the ancient Greeks took their religion seriously since it seems so patently absurd.»

It seems almost unthinkable, apparently, to such people that these ancient Hebrew texts could have been written without a passionate interest in the physical relationships of space and time.

Although Strauss himself was big on reading Hegel and, I'm told, was planning to write a book on him, he turned our attention to the «dyad» Strauss - Kojeve, which he seemed to present as equivalent to Ancient - Modern and Eternity - Time.

Our earliest copies of those documents are more plentiful and closer to the time of Jesus than the histories of many major figures of the ancient world (whom the general public seem to have no problem believing in).

Dance seems to have been a common feature of life in ancient Israel, particularly at festival time.

In fact, the prevailing psychological tone seems better captured in the resignation of the ancient Chinese proverbial curse «May you live in interesting times.»

Here is the seeming paradox that a people, freely recognized as supremely the religious people of the ancient world, at the same time were without a peer in the power and scope of their critical intellectualism.

It would seem that His story would have been buried in the ancient news cycles a long time ago.

If you can then accept that what follows is a parable given to Moses by God, it would seem to me that it would be reasonable that it is a very simple story that a man who lived in ancient times could understand and accept.

In our time it seems that the ancient patterns still hold.

43 The Prayer Book uses it only of bishops; in monastic usage the tide «Father» for abbots, or for older, professed, or ordained members of the monastic family generally is ancient; in modern times it gradually spread, through the active missionary orders doubtless, to the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland; the heroic ministry of Charles Lowder and other priests during the cholera epidemic of 1866 in London seems to have started the common use of «Father» for nonmonastic Anglicans.

It may seem like ancient history, but there was a time within memory when it was the hottest winter ticket.

Marriage seems like a contract from ancient times to prevent everybody from getting kids everywhere.

It seems that every new mother I meet already knows about this ancient herb and many are already taking it by the time they talk to me.

Time for a quick catch - up story — it may seem like ancient history now, with the debt ceiling battle completely dominating domestic politics, but a couple of weeks ago President Obama held a «Twitter Town Hall,» using a live video feed to answer questions sent in through the microblogging site.

Time for a quick catch - up story — it may seem like ancient history now, with the debt ceiling battle completely dominating domestic politics, but a couple of weeks ago President Obama held a «Twitter Town Hall,» using a live video feed to answer questions sent in through the...

But clawed paws in these northern «true seals,» which include harbor and harp seals, seem to be more than just a holdover from ancient times, says David Hocking, a marine zoologist at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

The uninterrupted freeze of the permafrost preserved DNA in the horse bone, but since DNA decays into smaller and less intelligible fragments over time, the specimen seemed too ancient to analyze.

Moeller is beginning to assemble a snapshot of the microbes in the guts of our ancient ape ancestor — in essence, a paleo gut that fit our paleo diet — and hopes to go even further back in time if, as seems likely, all mammals have evolved their unique microbiota from a common ancestral population in the distant past.

Almost any time an ancient superfood is discovered in some far flung part of the world, high atop a mountain or in some hidden valley or vale, soon the media will be abuzz with all the benefits which always seem to border on the magical.

Synopsis: On the eastern edge of Bulgaria, bordering Turkey, amid wizened orchards and an ancient patchwork of farmlands, sits a poor and sleepy hamlet that time seems to have forgotten.

His Reynolds has a rather tarnished, aging grandeur, with a fragility that's almost infantile; his odd, somehow puckered voice, which seems at times to be emerging from a vintage Bakelite radio, is not so much feminine as somehow ancient, the sound of a mummified soul that could crumble to dust if exposed too brutally to the noise and fuss of the world.

After spending so much time exploring ancient wonders, and marveling at our own history, it may seem strange to return to modern amenities, but rest assured, these abound in the area.

Limuw, ancient island homeland of the Chumash, seemed to embrace the Elders that day, reminding us of the sacredness of all life and of our responsibilities as human beings, especially in this time of suffering and war, to live authentic lives of respect and harmony.

As a nation, Germany seems to operate in its own sphere, a land which defies time and history by melding its ancient timeline with the heady skyscrapers of the future.

HanumanAlaya Boutique Residence is located just outside the city of Siem Reap which is handy for those who are more interested in exploring the ancient ruins of the Angkor Watt temple complex rather than spending much of their time downtown exploring the ex-colonial sites.The friendly staff at the resort can help arrange tours of the temples and provide guides and transportation.Although they do seem to have a commission on Tuk Tuk rides and guide services.The hotel rooms are clean well appointed and furnished with both modern and Khmer touches and are air - conditioned with amenities such as a television, mini bar, laundry and dry cleaning services and safety - deposit boxes.

Ocarina of Time actually managed to introduce a story that made this in - game world not only seem fully realized, but seemingly bursting at the seams with history that's as ancient as time itsTime actually managed to introduce a story that made this in - game world not only seem fully realized, but seemingly bursting at the seams with history that's as ancient as time itstime itself.

While we already live in the realms of what used to be science fiction, we seem to have simultaneously gone back to our ancestral past — a time when ancient civilisations believed spirits inhabited plants, animals, geographic features and even objects.

This time, he seems to have mistaken himself for a cross between Earth's most ancient civilization and Sandro Chia.

The idea seems so old, almost of ancient times, and we so badly wish it was, yet alas, when we still witness misogynistic comments on a daily basis, when men continue to objectify women, even blatantly in the public, political sphere, and when women sometimes still fail to support each other against these behaviors, Minter's work serves as a voice that sheds light on these serious social issues that our world must face.

Making it their primary source of inspiration, many of them explored both modern psychology and ancient mythology in order to figure out what many times seems unknowable.

All over the city — in a graveyard, in a bar, in the ancient Olympic stadium — Pope.L had placed live performances and recordings of people whispering or quietly singing, and Whispering Campaign (2016 — 17) seems like the emblematic artwork of Documenta 14: intentionally fractured, at times unintelligible, vaguely menacing, and cohering only partially, and in retrospect.

Dagley's paintings, like these now ancient - seeming machines, bring us back to a time when information and form were unabashedly conjoined in one package.

MccGwire's sculptures seem to suggest a kind of mystical alchemy, melding ancient symbolism with free - flowing forms, pushing the possibilities of such a fascinating material — while at the same time inviting us to witness th forces of nature, made manifest.

According to medieval historian, Michel Pastoureau «men and societies seem haunted by the memory, more or less conscious, of these ancient times when they shared the same spaces and the same prey, the same fears and the same caves, sometimes the same dreams.»

Note that this is a reletivly short time period and I am not sure how accurate it is, however, scientists seemed to think that it was a relativly accurate representation of this ancient atmoshere.

In short, your idea that the temperature of the earth has been remarkably stable over times is correct, and the idea that water seems to dominate also looks correct, but the idea of a stable atmospheric density appears incorrect, and the ancient sun is a complete unknown that needs looking into.

The dream of low - cost, paperless hardware - light, high profit online - only content has not entirely been delivered and the never - ending race seems to be to manage technology change and occasionally fickle whim, while at the same time clinging to whatever ancient cash - cows that they can.

There are so many digital platforms available today for document storage that keeping paper files in the office seems like the work of ancient times.