This is a deliberately archaic work, based on a 10th-century appearance of the Virgin at a church in Constantinople.

The style of the ballet, in which a young faun meets several nymphs, flirts with them and chases them, was deliberately archaic.

The city had been built in a deliberately archaic style, mostly from stone.

Mycogen seems to keep itself deliberately archaic.

More recent works titled "pavane" often have a deliberately archaic mood.

Sometimes a deliberately archaic or traditional poetic vocabulary was used.

Its monumental proportions are deliberately archaic but the overall effect is unusually spacious and light for traditional Russian architecture.

In particular, "Jedermann" - the deliberately archaic "play of the death of the rich man" - sought to rekindle the flame of faith.

Noguchi's abstract, deliberately archaic sculptural forms represented a self-made refuge from the cultural alienation he experienced throughout his life.

It was sculpted in a deliberately archaic style and copied its form from Stela 29, erected a century and a half earlier.