Sentence examples for down ethos from inspiring English sources

Moreover, they cement, rather than shake up the existing class state of things, with their discredited "trickle down" ethos.

He had become suddenly relevant to the flamboyant New Romantic bands (including my favorite, Ultravox) popping up around England in reaction to punk's stripped down ethos.

Their tear-it-all-down ethos has left them, despite their impressive power to mobilize, politically inchoate.

That pared-down ethos has attracted more than 100 vendors and 30 guest writers and artists who will sign autographs and sell drawings at the convention.

Of course, a real garage band might consider a setup like this to be taking the stripped-down ethos a little too far.

But Mr. Trump's advice to his friend on Wednesday — that Mr. O'Reilly "shouldn't have settled" — was consistent with the never-back-down ethos of a president, and former real estate magnate, who relishes the counterattack.

He bellows in outrage at what has become of his country in three short years, at the upside-down ethos of cronyism and unfairness that he says has taken hold in the White House.

Its goals may seem modest to the burn-it-down ethos that aims to upend food as we know it and rebuild it healthfully and sustainably, but I think small steps, and then more small steps, on tens or even hundreds of millions of acres is how that job has to get done.

It all makes little or no narrative sense and barrels inevitably toward a splendidly silly climax, but it's hard not to admire the stripped-down ethos of Mukunda Michael Dewil's six-pack-and-a-curry actioner that benefits hugely from a lean, mean 85-minute running time.

"The settlements and the many episodes of harassment the women described depict a top-down ethos of male entitlement at Vice, where women said they felt like just another party favor at an organization where partying often was an extension of the job," wrote New York Times reporter Emily Steel.

A New York Times report published Saturday details a toxic workplace culture at Vice Media, which the paper characterizes as being ruled by "a top-down ethos of male entitlement".