Sentence examples for about the custom of from inspiring English sources

There is something very wrong about the custom of tipping.

Visitors learn about the custom of decorating trees and make Christmas ornaments to take home.

OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about the custom of lowriding among Mexican-Americans in California.

For all its cloying sweetness, "La Promenade" is quite unsentimental about the custom of showing off your well-dressed children in public.

Talk story about the custom of holding a brief church service in the locker rooms on Sundays before games by the teams in the National Football League.

But the British authorities had long been concerned about the custom of the sea and the danger it posed as a precedent for unpunished murders.

There is nothing in the Constitution requiring candidates to be listed on the ballot with their party affiliations, and, if you think about it, the custom of doing so is vaguely undemocratic.

Later at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art she reads about the customs of earring-wear throughout the ages.

He preferred privacy, which gave him the freedom to think on an unprecedented scale, covering great lengths of time without bothering about the customs of concert life.

But in the end the pleasure the show offers is largely anthropological: I felt I'd learned a good deal about the customs of 14th century China without finding my own soul haled from my body.

Although our companion insists, as forcefully as a retiring fellow can, that he's not really the dour type we take him for, there's no escaping the soundless scream that somehow underlies his soft-spoken anecdotes about the customs of the old country and his observations of the new one.