He is a bit embarrassed by this category because, despite its 'archaic' elements, he finds himself unable to deny its authentic power.

Every moment in history contains a mix of archaic elements, things from all over the past, right back into prehistory itself.

The present is always a melange of these variously archaic elements.

Combining modern and archaic elements, Obrecht's style is multi-dimensional.

The cartouches, showing the characters' dialogue, are an archaic element, perhaps required by the commissioner himself as a complement of the moral message.

But the mythic and archaic element was combined with the chronicles of rulers which can lay claim to being in some degree genuinely historical.

The singing in this region is also unique, shrill with archaic melodic elements.

Despite archaic elements (frontal composition, gold background), they are a gallery of portraits of intense realism.

Historically, he points out, renaissance periods have always involved a resurgence of archaic elements along with the invention of new technologies and mathematical systems.

Since this does not alter the sense in any way it must have been made to reduce the archaic element (cf. the passage given under $40 above).