Sentence examples for essential tradition from inspiring English sources

To the Bukharian Jews of Central Asia, a big house is an essential tradition: a place to shelter multiple generations, to hold large parties, memorials and holiday dinners, to reaffirm a community's unity.

The idea that in order to follow Christ, "one needs to begin from a disposition of repentance" is a recurring and vital theme in John Paul's encyclicals, Father Baxter said, adding that it has been an essential tradition of the church that a confessional examination of the past is required if one is to move forward faithfully into the future.

The Imitation Game continues this essential tradition.

Nature writing is an unsatisfactory term for this diverse, passionate, pluriform, essential, reviving tradition - but it is the best there is, and it serves as a banner to march beneath.

Statistics became essential to that tradition.

(Tommasini) ★ Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (Sunday and Tuesday) For many concertgoers in the New York area, hearing the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center play the six Bach Brandenburg Concertos has become as essential a holiday tradition as taking in a performance, or two, of Handel's "Messiah".

That is precisely what makes the police violence that has become such a common spectacle so troubling: protest is an essential American democratic tradition, and you don't have to support the protesters (or oppose the dismantling of their camps) to condemn its forcible stifling.

Kuhn's work called attention to what he called "the essential tension" between tradition and innovation (Kuhn 1959, 1977a).