Sentence examples for cultural type from inspiring English sources

You may wince at the idealization of a cultural type.

As a cultural type, such a figure is easy to send up, but Mr. Melhus does something more than that.

He is also the embodiment of a cultural type, largely unfamiliar to the West, that dates far back into China's ancient past.

But in Kaplan's deeply researched book, she becomes a useful cultural type, for all her inconsistencies and inability to effect broad social change.

Cartoonists generally focus on a specific gene pool or cultural type, and the characters in "Dykes to Watch Out For" are a motley crew of more or less radical lesbians, living in a Midwestern city and striving to achieve a state of alternative normality.

MANOHLA DARGIS One reason Katniss may be speaking to so many is that she doesn't just seem to be a new kind of female character but also represents an alternative to an enduring cultural type that the literary critic R. W.B. Lewis described as the American Adam.

The chief division in Mayan cultural types is between highland and lowland cultures.

Here we find all sorts of cultural types permeating and acculturating1 each other, forming vibrant genetic relations of ethnic cultures, in which "you are inseparable from me, and I am inseparable from you; there is something of me in you, and something of you in me, to the point that I am you and you are me".

Infidelity, cultural typing, family and emigrant dynamics recur and reconfigure throughout.

Probably no other country has a wider range of racial, ethnic, and cultural types than does the United States.

But it has long had its share of off-center literary and cultural types and, since 2001, the adventurous Jacob Burns Film Center.