Sentence examples for Cosmopolitan traditions from inspiring English sources

If the cultural identities that both cities are trying to create are to some extent fictions, Doha's is one woven largely of the cosmopolitan traditions of the region — that is, of places like Damascus, Istanbul and Cairo.

Song plays an important role in all the cultural traditions of Sudan and ranges from the unique cosmopolitan traditions of Qurʾānic recitation in a melodramatic manner to tribal songs.

The practicing typographer has, then, a vast number of types to choose from, and, because the best of those types have evolved within cosmopolitan traditions and have stood the test of judgment by many people in many places over many years, there are, within the several thousands of types available, many that are of unquestioned excellence.

His subject is Mexico, but he is also coming out of an international cosmopolitan tradition of modernist photography and modernism in general".

A wide-open tribute to the cosmopolitan tradition, the Biennale featured fine work in the Japanese pavilion, organized by Arata Isozaki, on the craving of young Japanese women for modern electronics and practical fashion.

A show that should be a required course in every New Yorker's education: our cosmopolitan tradition, our appetite for novelty and change spring partly from seeds planted a century ago in Berlin.

What is finally moving about the anti-anti-Americans in France is that they are defending a cosmopolitan tradition — the tradition of the Marshall Plan and the melting pot, where, as B.H.L. rhapsodizes, Daniel Pearl could be Jew and journalist and American and internationalist all at once — that they continue to identify, stubbornly and, these days, perhaps quixotically, with the United States.

When we think of jazz fiction, we think not only of books centered on the music but of work steeped in the jazz aesthetic — an implacably rigorous and cosmopolitan tradition rooted in the blues and the African-American experience, in which obedience to the moment has primacy.

It has been the integral to the liberal and the cosmopolitan tradition of thought.

In contrast to the folk music styles just described, the court-derived classical style of Bukhara and Samarkand represents a highly systematic, theoretically grounded, cosmopolitan musical tradition.

His influence as an experimental stylist and as an exponent of the cosmopolitan-humanist traditions of the European intelligentsia was very great in the earliest and most creative period of Soviet literature.