Sentence examples for forces of tradition from inspiring English sources
The romance thickens predictably, the forces of tradition rise up to douse the light of progress, and, perhaps not quite soon enough, somebody ends up headless.
Nima Yushij was the first to propose a radical renewal of Persian poetry, not only of its contents but also of its prosody and imagery, but he found the opposing forces of tradition to be very strong.
David Stafford (ex Galvin, Le Café Anglais and River Café) knows there's no point battling against the forces of tradition, so his menu is liberally blessed with, yes, game (when in season), pies and puddings.
Another scene shows the choir playfully singing an arrangement of Schubert's String Quintet in C. Two male characters, the composer Ignaz von Seyfried and the Kapellmeister Joseph Drechsler, comment admiringly on Sulzer's efforts, but there is little sense of the conflicting forces of tradition and innovation that could have given "The Vienna Rite" dramatic heft.
In those cases of non-consensual kidnapping, male pride emboldened by force of tradition is unashamed.
In Native American cultures, the artist's ability to communicate successfully depended largely upon the recognition of the force of tradition.
Such is the force of tradition, for while no one wants to eat the ornamental coleslaw and pickles, everybody expects to see them on the table.
By the 5th dynasty, fixed institutions had been added to the force of tradition and the regulation of personal contact as brakes on autocracy, but the charismatic and superhuman power of the king remained vital.
Reason itself is among them the effort to advance constructively while gripped by the irrational force of tradition, of unexpressed assumptions and unexamined mythologies, repressed desires and frustrated aspirations, undiscussed history and unacknowledged grief.
King Birendra, 55, had survived a fierce wave of street revolts in 1990 only by the force of tradition; the Nepalese considered him a reincarnation of Vishnu, and there was never a mass movement to depose him.
