Sentences with phrase «idea of a century old»

Not to mention, your book doesn't run on batteries and the idea of a century old e-reader being unearthed and translated is kind of hilarious.

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Tricoci started digging around, looking for properties they could model their idea on, when he came across The Iron Horse Hotel in Milwaukee, a one - of - a-kind boutique hotel built in a converted century - old mattress factory on the Menomonee River near the Harley - Davidson Museum.

Big Idea: Oldest son of Rupert Murdoch has returned to his father's empire as non-executive co-chairman of News Corp. and 20th Century Fox after quitting his executive positions in the pre-split News Corp. in 2005 — and relinquishing his status as heir presumptive — to build his own radio and TV group, Nova, with James Packer, scion of another Australian media dynasty.

The very fact, therefore, that the Hebrews conquered Palestine, settled in towns, developed private property in land, broke up into economically unequal classes, chose various crafts and businesses, and, as the centuries passed, became part of the diversified international civilization of their day, meant of necessity the gradual diminution of the old tribal cohesion and its associated ideas.

The response to those such as Rushkoff and others has been a well - intentioned though historically inaccurate and socially misguided attempt at reasserting the old twentieth - century idea of peoplehood as a starting point for Jewish identity.

Still, the old patriarchal institutions were not completely unsuited to land tenure, and through these early centuries the idea of family possession took such firm hold as to be written into the laws and to provide the background for the colorful incident of Jezebel's theft of Naboth's ancestral property.

The idea of the good old cinemathèque feels very last century, and yet, maybe they are the last fortress of cinema to resist the dominance of super hero boredom on screen.

When Kathleen Rice won the race for Nassau district attorney last year, sending the longtime straight arrow Denis Dillon into retirement, she looked like everyone's idea of a 21st - century prosecutor — all youthful zeal and professionalism, with none of the tired rigidity and old - timer thinking that had come to encrust Mr. Dillon's reputation after more than 30 years in office.

While light - sheet microscopy is an old idea — scientists at ZEISS Microscopy and collaborators first came up with it in 1903 — only in this century has the convergence of fluorescent labels that work to process image volumes combined to make light - sheet mainstream.

This artificial joining of two separate animals, known as parabiosis, was a staple of physiology experiments for over a century before Irina Conboy got the idea to pair an old mouse with a young one.

As Newman read old alchemical texts, he discovered that by the late 15th and early 16th centuries (the time of da Vinci and the beginning of the Renaissance), alchemists had refined not just mercury but also their core ideas about matter.

The idea of women - only clubs isn't new — in fact, they're pretty darn old with earliest known roots in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The idea of an older woman dating a younger guy isn't exactly a new revelation; it's a dynamic that's featured across multiple cultures for centuries gone by.

Today, large corporations are putting a lot of money into twisting our laws to slowly but surely strangle the public domain, making it increasingly remote and inaccessible so they can continue seeking rent on ideas and culture nearly a century old.

«In Electricomics, the world's oldest narrative art form and youngest technology combine as a uniquely 21st century medium, establishing a thought - through toolkit of open - source effects enabling its audience to create digital comics themselves, bringing their vital ideas to an exciting new mode of entertainment and education.»

A half century of tradition has its roots in the original idea to build freestanding walls in front of the old schoolhouse — Ashawagh Hall — on which to hang paintings, and bring them in at night; those walls erected by none other than Athos Zacharias.

Riddled with nostalgia and redolent of old linens, Mr. Carroll's paintings relocate the ideas of Robert Ryman somewhere in the 19th century; they are the shabby chic of late modernism.

If [Allan] Kaprow wants to create a new synthetic art of all the senses, that is a marvelous, old, nineteenth - century idea but it is cheap to treat Jackson Pollock as a stepping stone for Kaprow's own still unrealized art.

It is interesting how the diversity and multiplicity that has existed in Kallat's own practice, from materials and media to ideas and meanings, is also evident in both the Museum's centuries - old exhibits as well as the artist's works on display — thereby making «Earth Families» a befitting stage to showcase the oeuvre of one of India's most significant contemporary artists, whose work is part of several public and private collections across the world.

This other stunning example in Barcelona's hip Born quarter takes its ultra-modern design ideas from the economic, efficient character of boats, and is a renovated, 753 square - foot apartment in a 17th - century building that once belonged to an old fisherman.

If you are old enough to have lived through any significant part of the last half of the 20th century and still clinging to the ideas you seem to promote, I have to assume you are an idiot.