Sentences with phrase «little archaic»

If you had to pick out a positive here, the obvious choice would be the robust, if a little archaic, course creator.

Sure it's still a little archaic and some of its design is showing its age but there's simply nothing quite like this on consoles.

The interface for finding new maps may feel a little archaic when you compare it to other games on the Switch.

It's still a multi-step process (which seems a little archaic, frankly), but at least it isn't the series of band - aid fixes and work - arounds that it used to be.

Our kvetches are mostly minor issues: The keyless access system needs a lock button on the outside of the tailgate and pressing a separate button on the climate control panel to check the outside temperature is a little archaic.

These transmission choices seem a little archaic by today's standards and account for the mediocre fuel economy during freeway driving.

and the film's treatment of women is a little archaic (most of the female characters are «helpers»), when this film is on, it's energetic, insightful, and incredibly well - acted.

SF CHRONICLE - Nov 26 - eHarmony seems a little archaic.

Not exact matches

In archaic religion each man finds meaning by repeating the creation, or to put it the other way about, he finds meaning by projecting the pattern of his own little story into the great story which explains not only his own little life but how things are.

To see our existence as some kind of coherent story, we have to be able to relate it to a larger story — our «little story» has to be fitted into a «big story» just as archaic men and ancient apocalyptists both saw.

Whereas primitive and archaic cultures required little specialization of functions and little work beyond that required to provide food, clothing, and shelter, civilization required a high degree of specialization and a great amount of disciplined labor directed to providing wealth for the community as a whole and for a small class within it.

They had grown up out of archaic religion and continued in little broken continuity with it.

Trident involves a nuclear priesthood with an archaic language and doctrine stuck in a past conflict that matters little to most of the electorate, protected from the ravages of austerity by a political class out of touch.

It is these little Westminster - insider quirks that draw audience members into the grubby little world decried by one disillusioned MP: «it's archaic, it's old - fashioned, it's bollocks.»

The recent dates suggest that like the 60,000 - to 100,000 - year - old fossils of tiny H. floresiensis (the «Hobbit») in Indonesia, H. naledi was a «twig off the mainstream of Homo — some little relic of a relatively archaic population,» Kimbel says.

The truth is that little is known about our unique genetic makeup as distinguished from our archaic cousins, and how it contributed to the fact that we are the only species among them to survive.

It's also possible that the little humans «evolved before the earliest Homo habilis, which would make it very archaic indeed.»

What it does mean, Siepel clarifies, is that «the signal we're seeing in the Altai Neanderthal probably comes from an interbreeding event that occurred after this Neanderthal lineage diverged from its archaic cousins, a little more than 100,000 years ago.»

That cutting edge science leaves no doubt that there is little in terms of difference in our genetic makeup as different racial groups is not enough reason for some to dispense with archaic mindsets.

He was always a little off, his mental and emotional state an eccentric tapestry painted by too many drugs and the archaic ideologies of mid-20th century America, ideologies held mostly by a demographic of people who would look down upon Hughes» lifestyle of rock star excess.

The lives system feels a bit archaic as well, as they're basically meaningless; losing all of them just causes a little inconvenience to you as you go back to the minigame you were on.

Archaic funding policies like these do little to encourage innovation within the system.

Writing with an actual pencil or pen may seem almost archaic what with technology virtually doing everything for us, but the kinesthetic movement of writing down an assignment into one of those little squares (Language Arts test tomorrow - STUDY TONIGHT), will actually help solidify that homework in your brain.

A little bit of me want charters to succeed because nobody changes until they absolutely have to... maybe once public schools really start feeling the monetary and demographic pressure they will change their archaic ways.

Though it was influential, Resident Evil now feels archaic and dated, with even the alterations made for the PS4 release doing little to cover its glaring blemishes.

While very colorful and having the most adorable little ship ever since the one from Fantasy Zone, the game looks extremely simplistic, with loads of archaic shapes and simplistic enemy models.

The lives system feels a bit archaic as well, as they're basically meaningless; losing all of them just causes a little inconvenience to you as you go back to the minigame you were on.

This exhibition will include little - seen and significant early artworks, her arresting sloths, a selection of curious personal and ritualistic artefacts and talismans, small sculptures accompanied by their bespoke furniture supports, as well as recent life - size free - standing technicolour figures, such as Blue and Green Scarf 2013 and Sun Worship 2013 (pictured above), which blur the lines between the archaic and futuristic.

Single family housing is an archaic industry; it is still little more than a collection of guys with pickup trucks with magnetic signs on the side and skilsaws and nailguns in the back.

Worth special attention: Dennis Kennedy live - blogged the keynote presentation of Richard Susskind; Craig Ball of EDD Update found the conference nice but a little tired; and Carolyn Elefant of MyShingle.com thinks all this talk of innovation in the law will come to nothing unless «archaic, protectionist ethics rules» are addressed.

This doesn't include archaic games that you'd have little to no interest in, but some of the console's best offerings, like the recently added Gears of War 4, Mass Effect, Darksiders: Warmastered Edition, and more.