Word: archaically
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...Hamlet was based on the G.I. version of the show that Evans played for three weeks in Honolulu during World War II. Because he thought Elizabethan costumes too archaic to make G.I.s see the play in modern terms, Evans staged Hamlet as though it were played in Graustark. Designer Richard Sylbert did equally well on TV: the cameras caught the spirit of 19th century romanticism with long vistas of marbled palace corridors, Victorian alcoves, Gothic battlements...
Senate Bill 247 has been created and endorsed by the finest legal minds in this state. Judges, lawyers, and interested citizens should not allow it to die a slow committee death as has happened before with similar bills attempting to correct Massachusetts' archaic system of part-time justice...
...turning themselves into the pots which call the kettle black. The Senators should let the tidelands bill pass, knowing that as soon as the electorate wakes up there will be votes enough to repeal it. If they stop now, they can then continue their fight to end the archaic institution of the filibuster without the tinge of political hypocrisy...
...quite a match for two splendid masterpieces of historical fiction recently produced by other Englishwomen: The Golden Hand, by Edith Simon, and The Man On A Donkey, by H. F. M. Prescott. Yet it has the charm of a hearty good story, and if the style is mildly mock-archaic, it is pretty good in its pretense...
Both Spain and Columbus come off rather entertainingly in The Velvet Doublet, but the English language takes a beating. Novelist Street has chosen to write in a pretentiously archaic and gaudy style, which sometimes reads like a burlesque of Ernest Hemingway in his pidgin-Spanish phase...