Like any new generation, this one had to differentiate itself from the tradition it was inheriting; in many respects, Bergson's thought dominated this tradition.
The vampiric traits described in Stoker's work merged with and dominated folkloric tradition, eventually evolving into the modern fictional vampire.
The authors conclude that the multi-heuristic nature of modern biotechnology makes it an engineering field primed for inductive reasoning to complement the dominating deductive tradition.
The same goes for a good still-life artist, whose subject matter is similarly humble — arrangements of fruit, flowers and kitchen implements dominate the tradition in Western art.
There was a time classrooms were a bastion of tradition, dominated by blackboards, chalk and textbooks.
And, of course, Ms. Ringgold was a black woman attempting to insert herself into a tradition dominated by white men.
Americans have been dominated by the tradition of being a superpower for decades and somehow feel the responsibility of maintaining and increasing the prosperity of their country.
Lewis's book helped bring about a revolution in which player performance was measured and assessed using an evidence-based approach rather than a tradition dominated by anecdote and intuition.
Grey became, as one biographer put it, a member of that "peripatetic tribe" that "dominated the central tradition of transatlantic musical theatre between the two world wars", swapping melodies and lyrics with his friends and collaborators Ivor Novello, PG Wodehouse, Jerome Kern, and George Gershwin.
Taken together, these paintings remind us that Mr. Suydam and his fellow Luminists were an extremely talented group who helped bring a measure of sensitivity, subtlety and poetry to the American landscape tradition, dominated then by the macho bombast of the Hudson River School.
That anti-psychologistic tradition dominated Anglo-American Kant interpretation for the latter decades of the twentieth century and is still the majority view today.
