Sentence examples for beyond the precincts from inspiring English sources

She was instrumental not only in expanding the performance of this dance form beyond the precincts of the temples where it was traditionally performed but also in cultivating international appreciation of the art form.

But this season, for the first time in recent memory, the never-never land of Broadway also opened a few grimy windows on the unsettled landscape beyond the precincts of 42nd Street — itself once a neon barometer of the city and country's economic state, but today a corporate flog-o-sphere about as tethered to the real world as Main Street at Disneyland.

It is a gallery acting like a museum, but rather than featuring Picasso, Lichtenstein or another artist whom most museums would kill to show, it is casting the spotlight on Mr. Wurtz, who is unknown beyond the precincts of the art world and does not even loom large within them.

Established in 1960, the Mandarin was one of the first upscale Chinese restaurants in America, as well as one of the first to offer the yangguizi — "foreign devils" is the common term — the choice of authentically Chinese fare, as opposed to the bland Chinese-American dishes invented and served, at the time, almost anywhere beyond the precincts of the country's teeming Chinatowns.

But it ventures well beyond the sheltered precincts of a workshop.

Then again, an appetite for serious literature can be found far beyond the expected precincts, as Mr. Franzen himself uncomfortably discovered when Ms. Winfrey chose "The Corrections," his previous novel, for her book club in 2001.

But in an interconnected world, success is measured not only by the size of their fortunes but also by their ability to use their billions to achieve recognition and influence far beyond the grimy precincts of their industrial triumphs.

The authors do not offer a derivation of debunk, which one may assume was drawn from bunkum but has come to range far beyond the windy precincts of Congress.

Beyond the Christian precincts, all sorts of New Age mysticisms, from feng-shui and crystal-gazing to angelolatry and posthumous celebrity-spotting, thrive in spurts of publicity-driven fad.

Beyond the narrow precincts of Western painting and sculpture, abstraction has been a free radical in visual culture for a lot longer than a century, a vital component in ceramics and textiles worldwide, for example, since time immemorial, or in Chinese painting for most of a millennium.

What made Reagan so effective politically beyond the fevered precincts of the right was that he was able to provide cover for that right-wing -- and racist -- animus through his command performance of the role of president in a way that articulated conservative resistance to gains made by blacks, women and gays without coming across as overtly racist, sexist or homophobic.