Sentence examples for American shape from inspiring English sources

But the story of Egidio's also has a hopeful and very American shape.

But it recurs equally in the art of the New World, and in fact the Alberses came to see it as both "a quintessentially American shape" and "an emblem of their own winding path".

I took him to the Burger King where I had fattened myself into American shape while listening to old Ukes discussing Ukrainian politics over sixty-nine-cent coffee—I used to call them the Knights of the Burger King.

The Daily Mail, struggling to take the measure of this American shape-shifting indie rocker, called Clark "the female Bowie".

In three successive marches through the Court (free with museum admission), the musicians play and strut their way through music by Frank Zappa, Stew and Heidi Rodewald, and the hymn composers of the American shape-note (Sacred Harp) tradition.

The London-based Sam Amidon played banjo, guitar and fiddle, and included the American shape-note hymn Weeping Mary, while the finest songs of the session came from Natalie Merchant, once with 10,000 Maniacs, with a quietly pained Butcher's Boy, followed by a delicate, personal treatment of Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier.

American mouths moving in American shapes and producing French sounds in French voices are cultural zombies, and misleading.

It is also the story of how two contrasting art worlds operate, the French centralized around the government and official institutions, the American shaped by private collectors and philanthropy.

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans shape school lunches for millions of school children and serve as the basis of public health campaigns across the country aimed at reducing rates of heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

Not just about the way contemporary African-Americans shape their self-image, the work ultimately reminds of the historic ways photography allowed a people to countermand the negative image of themselves in the culture at large.

In a country that ranks near the bottom when it comes to income inequality amongst developed nations, these harmful stereotypes don't do much in helping vulnerable Americans shape a better future for themselves.