There, among its fewer than 1,000 inhabitants, four generations of women have practiced the art of quilting, creating quilts that resemble abstract paintings more than the customary patterns.
Scientific management, moreover, demanded strict supervisory control over the workplace and hence posed a profound threat to customary patterns of workers' autonomy in the labour process.
Since the days of Shakespeare, the English language has changed, and so have audiences, theatres, actors, and customary patterns of thought and feeling.
The event reversed the customary patterns of daily life in the nation's capital, swelling the Mall from the Capitol to the Washington Monument with black men from across the country but draining many commuters from the rest of the city.
Equally impressive is the way Greenwell takes a number of traditional motifs and genres the familiar novel about discovering gay identity, the story about the American abroad who falls in love with a local, the old tale about prostitute and client and not only refuses to follow the customary patterns but plays subtle yet quite radical variations on them.
A better understanding of customary patterns of mobile pastoralism is key to preventing continued conflict.
Customary patterns and familiar environments give me security and the feeling of knowing my way around in my life.
Sociologist Max Weber talks about the routinizing of charisma, that all new religious movements start with this freedom and openness to new ways of being, but as movements crystallize, they begin to form the customary patterns of other religious movements.
Dignity encounters take place in specific settings, public or private social and physical environments in which actors engage in certain customary patterns of behavior.
If you don't know the range you will be using your shot shells, it is customary to pattern birdshot at 40 yards (36.6 m) and to pattern (defensive) buckshot at 20 25 yards (18.3 22.9 m).
His still life featuring a fish being prepared for cooking is remarkable for its soft color and aspiration to volume over the customary linear pattern.
