Sentence examples for durable tradition from inspiring English sources

Spain and Italy have relatively few personal computers or other internet access, and a more durable tradition of buying from local, non-chain shops.

Hawthorne's work initiated the most durable tradition in American fiction, that of the symbolic romance that assumes the universality of guilt and explores the complexities and ambiguities of man's choices.

While the notion of cowboy poetry may only call to mind the kind of high-plains kitsch practiced by Dusty and Lefty on "A Prairie Home Companion," the genre has a long and durable tradition in North America.

It's a doubly durable tradition because it summons up two kinds of nostalgia at once: nostalgia for those endless summer vacations, and nostalgia for an age of unanimity — a (fictional) time when we were all listening to the same radio station and buying the same CDs.

Mr Brown's goal seems to be to fuse together an American ideal of equal opportunity with the most durable traditions of British social democracy.

Liberty is a nautical term that, in durable naval tradition, often translates to bar-hopping and woman-hunting, punctuated by the occasional fight.

This rhetorically powerful critique of justice inaugurates a durable philosophical tradition: Nietzsche, Foucault, and their successors in various projects of genealogy and 'unmasking' are all Callicles' heirs.

Fun and Frankenstein Another of New York's most durable holiday traditions favored by children is ice-skating at Rockefeller Center.

Yet even as Ms. Marling sang about mortality and ruin, her music attested to something durable: the British folk traditions that were renewed by trad-rock of the 1960s.

And some hybrids have grown durable enough to feel like traditions of their own.

It is, unapologetically and even humbly, true to the durable tenets of the war-movie tradition, but it is also utterly original, even radical in its methods and insights.