Sentences with phrase «old relic of»

The same old relic of a book that has spiritual meaning to many, but that's about it.

To take literally passages from an old relic of a book, written by man many millennium ago, and interpreted once again, by mortal man since, is rudimentary and without any credibility.

I'm sure not we need the really old relics of the 1990s.

Though the film does meander off course for a bit, we meet some formidable older relics of the racing era including, Isiah Whitlock, Jr.'s River Scott, who is based on Wendell Scott, one of the first African - American drivers in NASCAR.

Not exact matches

But Gundlach said his FANG thesis was largely based on his belief that the companies were Clinton darlings, relics of the «old machine,» an era that has now ended: «It's just so obvious to me,» he added.

Why — and how — has this dive - y old Vegas relic become some sort of adult playground?

-LRB-...) To shed more light on what happened in 2013 and what is likely to occur in 2014, we need to look at three factors that many had assumed were relics of the «old EM».

When he invented email, Ray Tomlinson also transformed the @ sign from 1,500 - year - old typographic relic into the workhorse of Internet communications

Their godly moralisms are but self - centered and self - censored upon redundant principles that are archaic in cultured relics, thsoe old fuddy duddues who fumble ever for their next glass worth of wine!

Their godly moralisms are but self - centered and self - censored upon redundant principles that are archaic in cultured relics, those old fuddy duddues who fumble ever for their next glass worth of wine!

The words of his Appeal to Europe are now engraved in the crypt, by the relics of St James: «I, Bishop of Rome and Pastor of the Universal Church, from Santiago, send to you, old Europe, a cry full of love: Come back and find yourself.

Think about it people - what kind of religion seriously regards an 800 year old heart as a sacred relic?

He has since given many signs of his support for the present pope; when many of his episcopal brethren were doing everything they could to undermine the motu proprio establishing the right to celebrate the «old Mass», he made clear his belief that the rite of John XXIII «is not a relic, not a reverting to the past, but part of the living tradition of the Church».»

As the summer sun glowed golden over Ballard, a neighborhood rich with Scandinavian history, I crossed the old railroad tracks, past the main streets, and made my way into a shipyard where relics of the old neighborhood were displayed as if it were a museum.

In fact, its Old World décor and formal style are hardly relics of bygone fine dining, but rather refreshingly counter-trend in an age when top chefs are going downscale with casual, noisy restaurants and even food trucks.

No, these beautiful old tin boxes, relics of what so many of us picture as quaint old English soccer, those are the real stadiums.

If that old relic is given another deal there needs to be an investigation of Arsenal football club!

Another season passes us by, thanks to the usual suspects — the London Mafia, and their goons in the stands, whose closed mouths and open purses have just about ensured that Kroenke, Wenger et AL will live long — and that the good old Arsenal FOOTBALL Club will die young, to be replaced by a profit making museum of mere relics and worn out videotapes of «Once upon a Time...»

The source said that the fire affected a section of the new palace building and not the old one where traditional artefacts and relics are kept.

«A little portion of the new palace was affected by the fire outbreak but the ancient relics are still intact as they are kept at the former (old) palace.

«The party is dysfunctional and a relic of old machine politics,» said Restler.

«It's been in a deep freeze at 400 degrees below zero all that time, so it's a perfectly preserved relic from the birth of our home solar system,» Stern says of the 4 billion - year - old object.

At one point he passes a museumlike display filled with the relics of old supercomputers, a memorial to their technological limitations.

The oldest, deepest layer contained more than 10,000 relics of human handiwork.

These systems also have an absence of the raw materials (gas and dust) needed for new generations of stars to form, leaving behind older and fainter relics.

One theory is that the craters are old steam vents, relics of an ancient catastrophe that cracked Phobos's crust and heated its interior, sending steam blasting outward.

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.

As the oldest known witnesses or «relics» of the early universe, they could shed new light on the birth of the cosmos if scientists could pin them down.

Remember, normal gut flora acts as a physical barrier to foreign flora; they are stubborn tenants, old ornery relics of the neighborhood who refuse to leave and who dissuade pathogenic flora from settling in.

Instant messaging is now a massively popular method of communication and with so many different dating apps out there offering a new take on it, the old - fashioned method of just speaking to a person seems like the relic of a bygone era.

Bangkok's many museums exhibit some of the most sublime, and strangest, collections of relics you can imagine, giving visitors a wonderful insight into Bangkok - Noi is an old community in Bangkok with a long historic story dating back to the Ayutthaya and Thonburi eras.

This kind of film is a relic in itself, although, quite unlike the old exhibits found in the film, this one never comes close to actually coming to life.

i didn't even know this one was out there but, following a group of nothing but silver - haired types into the local multiplex (as opposed to a group of squealin skateboardin cellphonin pimplepoppers headin for «hannah montana»), i found this relic warped from the days of abc's movie - of - the - week as the old new wave (carradine, torn, and dern, their wild, capricious, potsmokin, f - ck - the - man, «we do it our way» days of the» 70's long behind them) dust off their best eastcoaster accents and entertain entertainin ms. hemingway's competent though lonely spinster.

With a Lynchian style that combines the lush scenery of Ireland, a 4:3 aspect ratio, older actors, and frightful visions of a dark figure, the film feels like an ancient relic of sorts, in a similar way that his last film Ping Pong Summer felt like a product of the 80s.

Whether protecting the ancient Hebrew Ark of the Covenant (as seen in the prequel Raiders of the Lost Ark) or uncovering other antique artifacts, the indestructible hero does for dusty old relics and legends what Bill Nye did for science and lab coats.

by Walter Chaw A genuinely good updating of the James Bond mythos from plastic, moldering relic to bloody, sweaty sociopath drunk on his own virility and general misanthropy, Martin Campbell's Casino Royale — though the umpteenth chapter in a decades - old testosterone fever dream — is very much a part of this day and age.

Our first Criterion release today is a relic from the days of Old Hollywood and extravagant movie musicals.

I personally enjoyed it, as did my friend I played with (we are both old school Sonic fans) but it does feel like a bit of a relic.

But in plenty of other respects, this humorless science - fiction cautionary tale feels like a relic from an earlier era, pulled out of a dusty old box of zip disks and 56k modems.

Part serial - killer thriller, part old - school anti-Soviet propaganda, «Child 44» plays like a curious relic of an earlier Cold War mindset, when Western audiences took comfort that they were living on the right side of the Iron Curtain and relied on movies...

From his era - appropriate soundtrack (featuring Thomas Dolby, Greg Kihn and The Fixx) to the visual style of his opening credits and his slyly reverential camerawork, West gives his movie the look and feel of a 25 - year - old relic, yet nothing about Devil seems stale.

The authors see today's teacher evaluation battles as a relic of an old one - classroom, one - teacher model.

The nearly 70 - year - old program once seemed a relic of the «vocational education» era — a time when a much larger percentage of high school graduates went right into the workforce.

So you have teachers in Reseda who are older relics (ok, that was mean) of a time when there were more white teachers in Los Angeles.

Coupled to this LS3 is a four - speed automatic transmission; while a relic from GM's old parts bin, it doesn't feel out of place in this application, shifting quietly and delivering torque and power smoothly.

Brooks Brierley tells the sad story of America's most expensive vintage thoroughbred / Driving a boat - tailed AC — The Editor gets to grips with a rare Anzani - engined survivor from the early days of the Thames Ditton marque / Magic Morris Minor — Alec Issigonis's postwar masterpiece is as collectable today as ever — Michael Worthington - Williams inaugurates our new series of expanded and very comprehensive Buyer's Guide / Wizardry in the land of Oz — There may not be many bushes in the Bush but you can trust Nick Baldwin to find a rusting relic / Prescott in 1950 — It's spot - the - celebrity time as Brian Heath pores over a newly discovered hoard of old hillclimb photos / Brighton revisited — Tom Threlfall describes the other Brighton Run while Peter Corrana gives us his driving impressions of one of the most covetable contestants in the main event / Immortal Austin 7 — Bill Boddy (who has owned nine of them) tells what it is about Herbert Austin's little wonder that keeps it at the top of the old - car parade / A summer affair For Vitoria Ainsworth — marriage meant an adventurous initiation into the joys of owning a Roesch Talbot / The real McCurd — Michael Worthington - Williams researches yet another obscure but fascinating UK motor manufacturer of the 1920s / Styled by the Wind — Touring 4 - seater lightweight bodywork on the Alfa Romeo 6C 2300B Mille Miglia was one of the first attempts at introducing aero technology to automotive coachbuilding.

We're not naïve about the current status of the old - fashioned three - pedal manual gearbox, especially on a car making its debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show, in a town where traffic makes manuals a quaint relic of the past.

With so many changes over the years, including the newly opened Global Powertrain Engineering Center built at the same location, some of these old relics have a tendency to walk out the door.

There's now a load of parts and platform sharing now, for a start, and the relics from the old DaimlerChrysler partnership are soon going to be removed from the Jeep line - up.

Amid all the streamlined fantasy cars at Concorso Italiano, Steve Peterson's 1924 Lancia Lambda seemed an ancient relic, apparently the oldest vehicle by far at the celebration of everything on wheels from Italy held Saturday on the Monterey Peninsula.