Sentences with phrase «of archaic language»

word and sacrament, and the perennial problem of archaic language.

For example, writing of Rosmini's book The Five Wounds of the Church, in which Rosmini describes the obstacles an exclusively Latin liturgy can pose for effective evangelisation, Fr Hill not only proposes his hero as an early proponent of the vernacular Mass, but goes on to add (in a rather sly footnote) that Rosmini would also have been opposed to «the deliberate use of archaic language» of which «the new vernacular translations of the Mass are an example».

Not exact matches

Trautman called parts of the proposed translation «archaic» and «just clumsy language.»

The same newspaper article relates the following: Trautman called parts of the proposed translation «archaic» and «just clumsy language.»

The writer who goes under this name has left us some of the most magnificent poetry in the Bible — poetry which is largely free from the archaic obscurity of some of the earlier prophets, and can be enjoyed for the power and range of its imagery and its richly embroidered language, as well as for the sublimity of its thought, which touches, probably, the highest level reached anywhere in the Old Testament.

She was eventually released, when an intern realized she was using an archaic dialect of the language his parents, or grandparents spoke.

The Christian is being challenged to show that when he uses religious language, and in particular, when he uses the word «God», he is speaking in a meaningful way, and is not simply repeating an archaic form of words which belonged to the old world, and which is no more relevant to the new world than goblins and fairies.

There is a curious sameness of tone, language and sentiment, an abundance of pious clichés and archaic expressions.

Moreover, he goes on to praise the ancient Latin orations for giving «an other - worldly, superhuman atmosphere through their sense of age and mystery», which rather suggests that he was neither as favourable towards a vernacular Mass, nor as opposed to the use of «archaic language», as Fr Hill so confidently declares.

Even the language that the Christian once employed in speaking of Christ has become archaic and empty, and we could search in vain for a traditional Christian language and symbolism in contemporary art and thinking.

In addition, at least some of the New Testament writings were intended for liturgical use, and liturgical language emphasizes the continuity of Christianity by preserving archaic expressions — which are sometimes, though not often, incomprehensible to later generations.

Sometimes it is suggested that these older translations, hallowed by usage, are the most satisfactory because their archaic language conveys overtones of the antiquity which is actually a feature of the Bible.

Even when these translations have been good, and quite intelligible to the people of the period of the translators, with the passage of time these versions have become archaic in language to later generations.

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.

Far too much of the modern justice system in Britain is still wrapped up in the archaic language of the 19th century.

It is as if Lindbergh has scraped away the Latin influences on the English language leaving behind the archaic syntax and vocabulary of the older Anglo - Saxon and Old Norse roots.

The odd spelling, the homophonic inversions, and the archaic vocabulary do take a wee bit of getting used to, but once the reader's eye and ear are acclimated to the language, one's mind is free to engage with the story, which is beautiful and dark.

Explore archaic paintings of the King's maids in waiting at the fresco gallery and the Mirror Wall revealing bygone transcripts similar to the Sinhalese language of today.

In 1987 and 1989 Japan was on top of the world, and despite the archaic problems endemic with WotD, it still holds value for those willing to persevere and with the Japanese language ability to enjoy its story.

He can read archaic dialects of other languages, but he doesn't know an uncommon but not outdated English word?

His lyrical and ebullient pictorial language drew from archaic sources, as well as the drawings of children and contemporary art movements such as Cubism and Tachisme.

His legal complaint has become the subject of a fair amount of conversation for its odd language («archaic System»,) odd quotation of Hamlet, and oddly redundant adjectives («naked, unadorned.»)

National Gallery of Denmark removes colonial terminology from works of art Copenhagen's National Gallery of Denmark has followed in the footsteps of Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum in removing archaic language associated with racism and colonialism from several works of art in its collection.

While the imagery, often archaic in nature, is found from different sources, Craven's intention is to create a new universal language by the collecting and arranging of objects and patterns.

The use of material and the title «the found language» brings the viewer to a primitive and archaic use of language, where one sign represents all the other signs.

Keren Benbenisty is a conceptual artist who uses various mediums, drawing in particular, to explore the notions of contemporary language in relation to its archaic provenance.

The title of the exhibition plays on ideas of language as a means to conceal, notions of the archaic, of the purposes and the fate of the artistic object and of domestic themes.

His canvases capture haunting interiors, mutating self - portraits, archaic and digital landscapes, cryptic fragments of language, and abstractions enlivened by myriad chromatic and stylistic variations.

The traditions of litigation which might seem odd in some settings — the robes, the overcoats, and the archaic language — make sense in its ornate courtrooms.

In the U.K., in 1983, solicitor John Walton founded Clarity, a group of barristers and solicitors who were also «opposed to archaic, over-complicated legal language.»

In the mid-1980s, the Law Reform Commission of Victoria (Australia) redesigned and rewrote a court summons written in archaic language.

The offence first appeared in statute in the UK Offences against the Person Act, 1861, and although the language was archaic the elements of the 1861 offence were identical to our current version.

It is part of the role of this Court to denounce this kind of language, unfortunately still used today, which not only perpetuates archaic myths and stereotypes about the nature of sexual assaults but also ignores the law.

The language of the peace bond provisions is vague and archaic in its reference to the oxymoronic concept of «reasonable fears».

I think that model release is a terrible example of legalese, full of needless repetition and archaic language.

Those of us who write for and read Slaw spend a lot of our time deriving meaning from books or other documents, not an easy task some of the time, particularly when the tomes are old and the language archaic.

In a famous passage from «Ulysses,» James Joyce recapitulates the development of the English language in 45 pages — from the archaic and formal («Deshil Holles Eamus») to the conversationally casual («Pflaap!

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One caveat: Don't let the slightly archaic feel of a formal business letter tempt you into using flowery, outdated language.