Sentence examples for communal roots from inspiring English sources

And how are changes in technology returning it to its vibrant communal roots?Far from being a Romantic expression of the individual, music, Mr Byrne believes, is a social, even biological, phenomenon.

When this company's men erupt into the war dance "Khorumi" and drop, ear to the ground, to hear the enemy's approach, it is clear that these are ritual dances with ancient communal roots.

Because cities require a critical mass of liberal people, or at least its elite, to be somewhat independent — free of their cultural, familial and communal roots, whereas it is the nature of the average Indian to be dependent on a network of his own kind, to deepen his roots and marinate in too many value judgments about other people.

(This year's mantra: "More intimacy. Less multiple layers of lamé.") Along with the executive producer Bill Condon (director of "Dreamgirls") and the veteran producer Laurence Mark, Mr. Rockwell — the first architect to design the show — is turning back the clock, Benjamin Butoon-style, to recapture the show's nightclubby, Champagne-popping, convivial, communal roots.

But it also reflects a desire to remain true to its communal roots.

Their huge following not only made the group a cultural icon, but put it at the center of an unlikely financial empire in which its communal roots and values translated into capitalist success.

The pageantry, the pride, the communal spirit of rooting for the same thing at the same time -- that's the upside of fandom.

The communal conflicts have deep roots in Myanmar.

Achebe responded by suggesting that the individualistic hero was rare in African literature, given its roots in communal living and the degree to which characters are "subject to non-human forces in the universe".

Hopefully this strike destroys the media conglomerates and a new, communal writing system takes root and flourishes in the wasteland of dead media, but it won't.

And, likewise, how could a band that successfully achieved the rare paradox of creating a subculture equally rooted in communal coexistence with libertarian individualism effectively inform philanthropy to any specific subsection of society?