Sentence examples for constraints of tradition from inspiring English sources

It is a magisterial French that is both a legacy of 130 years of colonial occupation and an instrument of liberation from the constraints of tradition and Islam.

At times her narrative reads like the archetypical Western narrative of liberation from the constraints of tradition, as when she celebrates the influence of Western literature and her Jewish classmates in Scarsdale, whose conversation was "so funny, so gory, so exactingly blow-by-blow".

His scientific work in astronomy, optics, and mechanics is of particular import in suggesting how we should pursue a purely empirical picture of the world, within the limitations of our sensory access and the constraints of tradition.

Perhaps he overlooks the contestability of conceptions of the good life, and of arrangements that preserve it; liberals, for instance, stress the value of individual freedom, independent of burdensome constraints of tradition.

DH: The Futurist, Constructivist and Bauhaus movements believed modern science and technology would sweep away the constraints of tradition.

If you're not too concerned about the constraints of tradition, you can choose any color you like.

But, like another conservative back-bencher impatient with the constraints of institutional traditions, Newt Gingrich in the nineteen-eighties, DeMint has managed to become a leading insurrectionary voice despite his junior status.

I'm excited by the idea of Nyborg working without the constraints of years of tradition, established party factions or lines.

The headmaster, J. F. Roxburgh, emphasized artistic and literary development, a loosening of the constraints of hidebound academic tradition and respect for individual liberty, qualities that were admiringly recollected in Lord Annan's 1964 book, "Roxburgh of Stowe".

There is undoubtedly much fun to be had with those who, having freed themselves from the constraints of church and tradition, sought to define a new and fairer society, but the comedy in The Trouble With Tom derives as much from the ingenious involutions of its storytelling form.

But his characters test the limits of the permissible, wriggling against the constraints of law and tradition, worrying over going too far or not far enough -- all this while they, their world and their language are perched on the brink of extinction.