pre-modern

In the pre-modern age football got along just fine being loud and simple.

Better to accept the beautiful chaos of football than to talk about it | Barney Ronay 2011

The pre-modern biology ancients had no expectation of these things.

2009 July - Telic Thoughts 2009

Another example is provided by the major Sunni scholar Rashid al-Din Maybudi, who completed the longest pre-modern Persian commentary on the Quran in 1126.

William C. Chittick, Ph.D.: Islam: A Religion Of Love Ph.D. William C. Chittick 2010

For someone trained as a scholar of pre-modern, classical Islam at the University of Chicago, I often felt unprepared to deal with these issues.

Ingrid Mattson: The Peter King Hearings: Let's Get Serious About Radicalization Ingrid Mattson 2011

Another example is provided by the major Sunni scholar Rashid al-Din Maybudi, who completed the longest pre-modern Persian commentary on the Quran in 1126.

William C. Chittick, Ph.D.: Islam: A Religion Of Love Ph.D. William C. Chittick 2010

I met Vidal Castillo in his crowded and cluttered office where there was just enough room in the cramped space for a workable congruence of modern and pre-modern furniture and equipment.

Alamos: Still a boom to bust town, but with everlasting charm 2009

Robbe-Grillet believed himself to be a realist and his attempts at advancing a "new novel" an effort to preserve the possibility of realism in fiction against the insistence of some critics that the novel remain encased in its pre-modern form.

Translated Texts 2010

Still, it is a model for the psyches of people who do not wish to hold a thought they do not want — they fear losing themselves in a very "real" sort of way (however delusional & pre-modern).

Self-Protection 2009

The furniture and atmosphere reminds one of a pre-modern era, without flashy furniture, LCD monitors or fancy lighting.

How I Became a Kitchen Designer 2009

For someone trained as a scholar of pre-modern, classical Islam at the University of Chicago, I often felt unprepared to deal with these issues.

Ingrid Mattson: The Peter King Hearings: Let's Get Serious About Radicalization Ingrid Mattson 2011