Sentence examples for central tradition from inspiring English sources

So I said to Virginia, 'How about taking a central tradition, a hegemonic tradition?

These are the tokens of a serious poet, eager to carry on the central tradition of English poetry.

Grey became, as one biographer put it, a member of that "peripatetic tribe" that "dominated the central tradition of transatlantic musical theatre between the two world wars", swapping melodies and lyrics with his friends and collaborators Ivor Novello, PG Wodehouse, Jerome Kern, and George Gershwin.

But the central tradition of Italian Renaissance painting left Christ relatively unscathed; the artists emphasized not the physical suffering of the man but the sacrificial nature of his death and the astonishing mystery of his transformation into godhood — the Resurrection and the triumph over carnality.

A central tradition of Diwali is the lighting of oil lamps.

New streams can be created -- in the West, by Christianity, or Luther, or the Renaissance, or the Romantic movement -- but in the end they derive from a single river, an underlying central tradition, which, sometimes, in radically altered forms, survives.

"But, personally, I would urge them to think again and respect some of the central traditions of what Cardiff City has been and is".

Andrew Clements, the Guardian's music critic, described him as "the pre-eminent exponent of the central European tradition; the greatest pianist from that tradition of our time".

In 1595 Annibale took to Rome his mature style, in which the plasticity of the central Italian tradition is wedded to the Venetian colour tradition.

The notion was long entrenched in the West that works from outside its central artistic tradition needed to be different.

Six of the Bard festivals, on the other hand, have been devoted to composers from the central Germanic tradition: Brahms, Mendelssohn, Strauss, Schumann, Haydn and, last year, Schoenberg.