Sentence examples for a native ground from inspiring English sources

While Doctorow himself notes, in this book's preface, that "there is no Winesburg here to be mined for its humanity," in his work as a whole there is the feeling of a native ground: the world of shtetl Jews transported to the Bronx and the several generations of their assimilation, and in the larger sense a rage for social justice, or rage at injustice, that comes partly out of that milieu.

Alfred Kazin made his name as a literary critic with "On Native Ground," a pathbreaking critical study of American literature.

By all accounts, a Ta'ziyeh performance on its native ground is a raucous emotional event, both celebration and worship.

Still, the art form retains a passionate following on its native ground: the Arena in Verona, which presents open-air productions in the summer, draws half a million people each year.

There were moments that emphasized the scientist, others than brought out the fly-at-it-folks discoverer of resources, and others that brought forth a vigorous environmentalist, conserving his native ground.

I recalled this conversation while reading "Only Yesterday," in part because the question of what constitutes native ground is a driving preoccupation of this epic about the Jewish settlement of Palestine in the early years of the 20th century.

But rather than trying to find a place for Carrie and company on their native ground -- which has shifted a little in the recessionary, politicized interval between the series's heyday and now -- 'Sex and the City 2' flees into a never-never land that manages to be both an escape from contemporary reality and an off-key, out-of-touch mirror of it".

The protest all came about because of a patch of land called "Ipperwash Park," the site of a Native burial ground that Canada destroyed after stealing (or, wait, sorry, "expropriated") the land to build a military camp.

At 26, he had audaciously established himself as a significant literary critic with "On Native Ground," his magnum opus on American letters of the first half of the 20th century.

Back on native ground, he has an attractive setting for upscale, down-home dishes like fricasseed rabbit with long twists of strozzapreti pasta and wild mushrooms or a thick pork chop with spätzle in brown butter sauce, red cabbage and Fuji apples.

For Zabel, by contrast, the hedge-fund industry was native ground: his father was a founder of Schulte, Roth & Zabel, an immensely successful law firm that served hedge-fund clients.