Sentence examples for complex tradition from inspiring English sources

But the question is difficult to answer in a region defined by ancient, complex tradition and torn by the temptations of modernity.

Renaissance polyphony — the ravishingly complex tradition of choral writing that stretches from Guillaume Dufay, in the early fifteenth century, to Tomás de Victoria, at the end of the sixteenth — does for the ears what the Sistine Chapel does for the eyes, giving lyric shape to divine power.

Silvia Donati and Cecilia Trifogli have mapped out the complex tradition of named and 'anonymous' commentaries on Aristotle's Physics in 13th century England.

Instead, its basic law was governed by the Doctrine of the Holy Crown (Szentkorona-tan), a complex tradition that underlies Hungary's historical, unwritten constitution until the 1947 Soviet-drafted constitution.

JAMES JENKINS Kensington, Calif., June 18 , 2012To the Editor: The predominant religious movement of the era is fundamentalism, the literal misreading of sacred texts and traditions that motivates world-changing political activism at the expense of rich and complex traditions.

The garlands made in India for adorning home, temple, statuary, and man himself were simpler than the bouquet or arranged floral materials found in the more aesthetically complex traditions of the West and Far East.

The second sees reason as embedded within complex traditions: rationality is what a given tradition or community takes it to consist in (cf. MacIntyre 1988; communitarianism).

At a recent meeting on how culture, usually defined as the passing on of traditions by learning from others, arises and changes, researchers probed questions such as what sparks cultural trends and how complex traditions are transmitted.

Researchers probed questions such as what sparks cultural trends and how complex traditions are transmitted, and most agreed that studies of both animals and children will provide important clues.

In this way the traditions of the earlier centuries were absorbed and re-developed as a distinctly rich and complex iconographical tradition.

Jean-Yves Jean-Yves Schillinger serious and well presented, with the simplicity and clarity that only a complex culinary tradition can produce.