All this, too, is in the style of ancient carols, which translated the Christian mysteries to local places and contemporary dress.

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For more than 30 years chalk in one hand, wineglass in the other he has conducted a Latin summer school in Rome, holding many classes sub arboribus 11 in the conversational style of the ancient world.

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Part of the way in which the epic legitimizes its ability to talk about so many levels of existence and so many kinds of experience is its style: an ancient authority inheres in that old-time diction, the plushly padded epithets and stately rhythms.

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The style, seen on an ancient Roman sculpture known as the Fonseca Bust, boasts a tall, horseshoe-shaped pile of curls in the front that would involve cutting the model's hair.

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The first gallery opens with a massive 1st century A.D. marble Roman vessel carved with Bacchic dancers, surrounded by "the legacy of the fathers" French and Italian precursors of the Renaissance, including Nicola Pisano and his son Giovanni, who blended French Gothic style with elements of Roman art gleaned from ancient sarcophagi.

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Vincenzo wrote a book, startlingly similar in tone and style to the ones his son wrote later, ripping apart ancient Ptolemaic systems of lute tuning, as his son ripped apart Ptolemaic astronomy.

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Disconcerting to some locals, Widecombe's ancient tavern, the Old Inn, has been transformed into a Mayfair-style wine bar that nonetheless offers solid versions of the traditional roasts for Sunday lunch.

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Gaylord's home isn't an ancient stronghold--he only recently put the finishing touches on his Elizabethan-style castle, which occupies a couple of the 170 acres at Camelot, a themed development he created in Durban, South Africa.

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The size of the ancient and modern drug markets are roughly the same, though, because most of the Western-style medicines sold in China are cheaper generics.

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The style of food in the Gaza Strip owes much to its port, which was on the ancient spice route linking south Arabia and the Mediterranean.

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