Sentence examples for customary forms of from inspiring English sources

Sentence implicatures, both semantic and conversational, resemple idioms and the customary forms of speaker implicature in being picked up by native speakers from other speakers in the course of learning the language.

To paraphrase Perry Anderson, semi-feudal elites extract economic surplus from the immediate producers by customary forms of extra-economic violence and coercion; they do so by demanding labor services, deliveries in kind, or rents in cash, and preside over areas where free commodity exchange and labor mobility are relatively rare.

As Mr. Hodge plays him, Titus initially registers as a man for whom action, not words, are the customary form of communication.

Self-flagellation is a customary form of mourning Imam Hussein; as the men swung the blades against their backs, they shouted: "Ya Hussein!

Also depicting ceremonial objects -- a shofar and a menorah -- the glass was probably set into the wall of a catacomb, the customary form of Jewish burial at the time.

After registration there was a banquet in a large, barn-like room out behind the Lodge, with a guest lecture on "Lincoln's In-Laws: The Other Civil War," followed by awards even Abes, modest as their namesake, can't resist this customary form of conventioneering self-flattery.

In fact, the cultural meanings of contemporary non-customary forms of penile cutting and bloodletting may provide avenues to promote MC in PNG, if deemed an appropriate technology to stem the epidemic.

Eddie Taketa, ending twenty years with the company, was in customary form, full of elegance, gentleness, and gravitas.

The style fits its subject: playful, disinclined to obey the customary forms and ingenious in the pursuit of its particular, perhaps peculiar goals.

Several analysts said that the video appeared to be staged and that it lacked the customary form and polish of jihadist videos.

And there was a pretty good philosophical argument against it (of the customary form: either it's false or it's trivial; either you are pushed into claiming that atoms are thinking about cappuccinos or you retreat to the uninteresting and obvious position that atoms have the potential to contribute to larger things that think about cappuccinos).