Sentence examples for cultural persistence from inspiring English sources
But her life tells a very different story -- of individual resourcefulness, and cultural persistence, against enormous odds.
At the least, the Grange is one of those marvels of cultural persistence, still around long after its original impetus faded away.
The poems in her book, she said, examine "sites of cultural persistence" and how "the life of a family shifts and morphs across time".
Perhaps the existence of a Venetian goddess Reitia, recorded by Strabo and mentioned in inscriptions from Este, is some proof of a Raeto-Euganean cultural persistence in the territory occupied by the Veneti.
It is understood that the authentic values and cultural persistence are preserved when the functions not forced the original design, comfort level and construction techniques of the houses.
Some of this has created considerable controversy: notably, Jason Staggie's horrific off-campus novel, Risk, and Thando Mgqolozana's A Man Who Is Not a Man, a searingly powerful novel that tackles the persistence of cultural practices such as ritual circumcision.
Comparisons of historical photographs and replicates serve to demonstrate change and persistence of cultural landscape structures.
Publishers Weekly: "The excellent new novel from Kunzru (Gods Without Men) opens as a coming-of-age yarn and ends as a ghost story, but its real subject is a vital piece of American history: the persistence of cultural appropriation in popular music".
In this hyperdistracted age, in which marketing has insidiously pervaded the cultural landscape with the persistence of weeds on a neglected lawn, criticism isn't always readily distinguishable from the salesmanship and hype that have corrupted not just our politics but the arts, education and even healthcare.
This could include, for example, persistence of cultural transmission of lifestyle or dietary habits associated with grandparental origins.
