(a.) Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its language is “archaic and obscure”, the commission says.
(2) Separate item pools were developed to measure each disposition: Trance, Nonconscious Involvement, Archaic Involvement, Drowsiness, Relaxation, Vividness of Imagery, Absorption, and Access to the Unconscious.
(3) The patriarchal laws and the predominantly male enforcers of said archaic acts of parliaments condemn us criminals if we terminate our pregnancies.
(4) The stomach of N. savona shows gastric glands of an archaic type, without any acid-secreting parietal cells.
(5) The study presents a demographic assessment of the Carlston Annis (Bt-5) Late Archaic hunting and gathering population recovered from the banks of the Green River in west-central Kentucky.
(6) In extreme anticipatory condensation--what I do propose, from my own reflections, is the preeminent importance of an archaic characterological core in depressive illness.
(7) The two most distinct models of recent human evolution, the multiregional and the recent African origin models, have different retrodictions concerning specific archaic-recent population relationships.
(8) The Parkinsonian-like walking pattern of the healthy old-aged human is thought to be a disinhibition of an archaic pattern of posture and movement.
(9) Stress is laid on the role played by archaic fears of being the bearer of evil tidings.
(10) Nor was it an institution, or a curious, outdated source of national pride, or an embarrassingly archaic badge of national pride , of a Britain continuing to punch above its weight on the international scene.
(11) It added that mistakes in how officers handled intelligence could be down to its "archaic paper-based system, a lack of personal responsibility by officers, convoluted policing structures and subjective assessments of what was relevant".
(12) Microbiology laboratories that offer only the archaic retrospective Weil-Felix serologic tests should review the needs of their patients.
(13) the projective identification (archaic form), the identification, the transference (in psychotherapy), the regression etc.
(14) These observations demonstrate that thyroglobulin has evolved from the condensation of a duplicated copy of the acetylcholinesterase gene with an archaic thyroglobulin gene encoding the major hormonogenic domain.
(15) It is considered as a transsynaptic degeneration which probably reveals an archaic phenomenon, submerged but not lost through evolution.
(16) We need a smarter system of information use, not a bigger one; a digital NHS, not a paper-based archaic NHS.
(17) When the dust settles from this particular takeover furore, we should start thinking more practically about the fundamental purpose of companies: the current structure of narrow shareholder ownership is based on an archaic interpretation of shareholding and a very narrow objective: to maximise their return.
(18) The state of Wisconsin is still clinging to an archaic contraceptive law that prohibits birth control for unmarrieds.¿The mos t tragic victims of this law are unmarried teen-agers because studies indicate that sexual intercourse is very frequent among teen-agers, yet access to contraception is hard to come by.¿It is hoped that the Legislature will see fit to repeal this outdated contraceptive law.
(19) These results strongly suggest the presence of a V-ATPase in pinocytic vesicles of E. histolytica, and thereby support the notion that the V-ATPases in the organelles of higher eukaryotes are derived from an archaic plasma membrane-bound form.
(20) Submitted to their narcissistically uncathected archaic superego, depressives are strictly directed towards law and order.
Prosaic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Prosaical
Example Sentences:
(1) Short of setting up a hotline to the Met Office – or, more prosaically, moving to a country where the weather best suits our condition, as Dawn Binks says several sufferers she knows have done – migraineurs can do little to ensure that the climate is kind to them.
(2) More prosaically, but sensibly, the publishing division, which includes all of the company's newspaper titles, will retain the News Corp name when the company's separation occurs in July.
(3) He calls himself a micro-economist, or more prosaically, a "data guy".
(4) It always seemed too prosaic to say merely that he was governing director of Tennants Estate Ltd from 1967 to 1991 and chairman of the Mustique Company from 1969 to 1987.
(5) The prosaic question for the armchair mountaineer is, can the dying be saved?
(6) The question of what to do about it is, I'm afraid, disappointingly prosaic.
(7) Some of the company's actions are more prosaic than they may first appear.
(8) There is a bucolic tendency running deep in the national character, expressing itself in a love of rustic poets and painters, and it is this part of us that has turned to fury at the coalition government and its prosaically named Draft National Planning Policy Framework.
(9) If the second Wall Street feels flat in comparison, that's because that culture of greed is no longer novel or outrageous; it's almost prosaic.
(10) Gillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, is less prosaic, warning of an imminent crisis for many households: "Ofgem and the government have massive questions to answer.
(11) It has as clear a progression as a common cold, and is no less prosaic in its wanderings: loneliness, or discomfort in one's skin; enjoyable drug use; then reckless, or desperate, drug use; then denial; then recovery, or death.
(12) Rather, the answer is far more prosaic, which is French for "boring": fashion writers are quite lazy.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest But a more prosaic response to Let the Music Use You might be to say that Knuckles implicitly understood what happened on a nightclub dancefloor because he spent virtually his entire life in nightclubs.
(14) And, more prosaically, we know that Rita Ora " dazzled in a low-cut jumpsuit " as she left her hotel today.
(15) Now, says Horne: “People here have looked at what Virgin have done on the West Coast line and are excited by the prospect of a similar transformation of services.” The image he uses is “a hotel on wheels”, adding: “There are very few commuters on this line – if people are using it, it’s because they want to, we have to impress them.” The reaction of staff and passengers at York station on Monday was more prosaic, with few changes yet visible to most except the Virgin stickers in the window, new staff badges and plastic Virgin windcheaters concealing old uniforms to keep out the snow showers.
(16) This song, a highlight of Prince’s live boxset One Nite Alone … is the exception, an angry horn-driven jam which Prince would perform to a somewhat prosaic video of passengers being hassled as they came through customs while intoning “You must remove your shoes” in a scary tonebox-altered Darth Vader voice.
(17) Can you imagine what it was like to move here in the 90s, from the land of the prosaically titled Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place, to a country where one of the most popular shows was called Drop The Dead Donkey?
(18) The crowd, 40,181, was the lowest by some distance since this stadium opened in 2007 and, with two shots on target all night, it was a prosaic way for England to prepare for their first Euro 2016 qualifier in Switzerland on Monday.
(19) But Johnson had other more prosaic work to do and there were moments when he looked less than comfortable doing it.
(20) The classic Rendell hallmarks were all there from the beginning – the sense of place, the delicate filleting of the characters’ psyches, the avoidance of the prosaic both in character and in motivation.