Sentence examples for familiar tradition from inspiring English sources

But concessionary oil sales are a familiar tradition in Latin America.

Its seamless integration, curiously, also called to mind a more familiar tradition: the old-fashioned operatic overture.

THE friendly wave to an oncoming rider is a familiar tradition among motorcyclists, a subtle acknowledgement of shared membership in a brotherhood of free spirits.

If Kuczynski represents the old-school tradition of noblesse oblige in politics, Fujimori represents another, equally familiar tradition, as old as it is modern that of dynastic entitlement.

As gas prices rise in the United States – currently averaging around $3.70 per gallon – America's politicians have resorted to the same familiar tradition of substituting politics for sensible policy.

This may or may not be regrettable, but is in some measure unavoidable because it is obviously the more familiar tradition and the ground of the comparativist's views.

Yet Kasischke remains aware that she works in familiar traditions: her scenes play knowingly with the expectations (the helpless professor seduced by a student, the super-secret women-only ritual) that her precedents raise, from "Buffy" to Euripides' "Bacchae".

As a form of remembering through non-remembrance, it is a psychological mirror image of more familiar traditions where creating and cherishing a representation of the deceased is considered necessary for healthy mourning.

Ear fatigue occasionally sets in (that's one inevitable effect of the band's ruthless approach), but more often, it was simply exciting to hear familiar traditions — garage rock, country music, the blues — sounding so strange.

The tumbling over of a new year on the ol' chronometer arrives with some familiar traditions: the declaration of life-improving resolutions for the months to come, the illusion that one might hit the gym more often than in years past and the announcement of dates for the Allman Brothers Band's residency at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan.

In more recent times, people have looked for alternative ways of living in less familiar traditions.