Sentence examples for distant cultures from inspiring English sources

Both were drawn to distant cultures, ancient and exotic.

Since then tattoos of distant cultures have been plainly seen as reflections of ritual and kinship, permanent markers of status and role.

Lots of families take their kids on road trips to far-off places and distant cultures, but we wanted our adventure to be UK-based.

Expressionism, which opened the eyes of artists to the art and artifacts of foreign and distant cultures, also turned their interest towards medieval mosaics.

"Ethnography is not just a form of scientific description of the customs and lives of supposedly distant cultures and peoples," he said.

Sepehri's poem spoke to the alienation that many Iranians felt in the nineteen-sixties, as technology, literature, film, and imperial encroachments brought ideas from distant cultures to bear on the country's traditions.

A long hike into a distant culture The State Department has advised Americans in Nepal to be cautious through mid-March because historically, this is a time of violence by Maoist groups in Nepal.

It was all fraud and a last act sleight of hand, wholesale burglary of distant culture, rescued by lobbyist sleaze, public relations sorcery, and weak apology.

Here, it's the girl who does the rescuing, saving not only the prince but the emperor himself from oblivion, and this in a distant culture where women were expected to obey strictly prescribed rules".

And yet his "Te Deum," in its exploratory harmony, fully belongs with what was being written at the same time -- the late 1890's -- by composers who were two generations younger and from distant musical cultures: Richard Strauss, Schoenberg and Debussy.

The more distant the culture, the more important it is to ask questions during the interview.