Sentence examples for foreign form from inspiring English sources

What surprised me most was the huge emotional impact of this exceedingly foreign form.

Government policy encouraged realistic spoken drama (huaju); but, in spite of successes such as Lao She's naturalistic Chaguan (1957; Teahouse), audiences have not responded to this "foreign" form of drama.

"I sometimes wonder that we can be so frivolous, I may almost say," he writes in "Walden," "as to attend to the gross but somewhat foreign form of servitude called Negro Slavery, there are so many keen and subtle masters that enslave both North and South.

Josimar Melo, food critic of daily newspaper Folha de São Paulo, has described this movement as "bossa nova cuisine", comparing it to the late-1950s movementhatat shook up Brazilian music by mixing a foreign form, jazz, with a native one, samba.

'Boum' is also the echo of a foreign imposed alien form of government held together by foreign experts, advisors, and a foreign army.

He similarly denounces liberals for promoting ideas like women's rights around the world: this meddling, he argues, angers Muslims who see such foreign forms of liberation as undermining their religion and traditional family values.

And the government will be pleased if its people turn against foreign forms of democracy and freedom of expression that they have sometimes been tempted to argue it might consider adopting.But things could easily go too far.

Just as Putin no longer fills prison camps with countless "enemies of the people," as Stalin did, but, rather, makes a chilling example of a famous few, like the businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky or the group Pussy Riot, his propagandists have taken their cue from foreign forms: magazine shows, shout-fests, game shows, and reality shows.

After the Spanish War of Independence, during which musical theatre productions were scarce, Spanish stages continued to be dominated by foreign forms, particularly the French operetta and the Italian bel canto opera, the latter of which was overwhelmingly favoured by King Ferdinand VII.

Still, foreign fighters form a fraction of the tens of thousands of rebels.

Belgians also have taken a foreign musical form, American jazz, and made it very much their own.