Sentences with word «archaism»

To suppose that this is due to deliberate archaism is to attribute to the author of Acts a modern view of historical writing.

Grudgingly, the Roman churchmen must give way to their Western laity and translate their sacramental rituals into comprehensible terms as therapeutic devices, retaining just enough archaism to satisfy at once the romantic interest of women and the sophisticated interest of those historical pietists for whom the antique alone carries that lovely dark patina they call faith [The Triumph of the Therapeutic, pp. 253 - 254].

I see the radical theologian as critic of all the new polytheisms and syncretisms, as well as of the new archaisms (whether emerging from Hartford or any other life insurance center): standing like some latter - day Moses or Calvin before the unoccupied space once filled by the Christian God prohibiting re-entry by either demon or spirit) murmuring piously, «He is not here; see the place where they laid him.»

The textured narrative is peopled by precisely delineated characters who employ a salty retro - future - speak, in which twenty - fifth century slang is morphed with frontier Western archaisms («take umbrage», «confound these bungers»).

The hurdle: Academic content must run parallel to the frenetic influx of new information and have the capacity to eliminate its own archaisms as they arise.

As I said to David above, omniscient POV is pretty standard in the genre, and people are going to talk with lots of purplish archaisms.

The contrast between modernity and archaism registers even in the picture's Flemish style, which was also once called «Gothic».

By juxtaposing their works, A New American Sculpture reveals the confluences of sources — from archaism and European avant - garde art to vernacular traditions and American popular culture — that informed these artists» novel contributions to the history of sculpture.

As a result, contracts are generally riddled with archaisms, redundancies, random verb structures, misconceptions, and other shortcomings.

Said is an unnecessary archaism: be done with it.

Expository or Biblical preaching has been found guilty of archaism, sacrificing the present to the past.

They seem to believe that if states in their practice are often self - consciously defensive and militaristic, the new international machinery will rid them of this archaism of an earlier, more evil age.

His latest film, Crimson Peak, again combines his abiding obsessions, a story about a macabre clash between the past and the future, modernity and archaism, the realm of the living and that of the dearly departed.

This 1964 colossus benefits from having about it a whiff of archaism.

They allow her, as one title puts it, her Archaism and Ecstasy.

The greybeards hated the archaism of Burne - Jones's dense application of scumbled and rubbed watercolour, designed to mimic the tempera techniques of early renaissance painters.

They point out archaisms, wordy phrases, and usage comments from Ken Adams» A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting as we type.

But as Bryan Garner notes in Garner's Modern American Usage, deem «is a formal word that imparts the flavor of archaism.

The language used in LegalZoom's NDA is a slurry of archaisms (for example, «IN WITNESS WHEREOF»), redundancy (for example, «granting or conferring»), stodgy lawyerisms (for example, «pursuant to»), random verb structures (for example, stating as an obligation what should be a condition), misbegotten drafting ticks (for example, using words and digits to state numbers), and general ham - fistedness.

It's useful for signing things, I suppose, but if John Gregory and other sensible modernizers have their way that archaism will soon be gone.

The idea that working with barristers should be bracketed with dealing with «the court» is an archaism ripe for abolition.

It's useful for signing things, I suppose, but if John Gregory and other sensible modernizers have their way that archaism... [more]