Sentence examples for form vernacular from inspiring English sources

In contrast to the highly bureaucratized building process in modern built form, vernacular architecture is more climate responsive.

W.H. Auden turned from Marxist politics to Christian commitment, expressed in poems that attractively combine classical form with vernacular relaxedness.

Now and then I've hit buried treasure in the form of vernacular word-lists or remarkable people – troves that have held gleaming handfuls of coinages, like the Lewisian "Peat Glossary".

McCarthyism was a populist attack on the élites; the campaign against comics, on the other hand, was "a kind of anti-anti-elitism, a campaign by protectors of rarefied ideals of literacy, sophistication, and virtue to rein in the practitioners of a wild, homegrown form of vernacular American expression".

The reforms of Charlemagne, reestablishing more classical standards in written Latin, may have been at once cause and result of the development of conventional written forms for vernacular Romance.

Leading a quartet called Boom Tic Boom, Ms. Miller leaned toward the post-bop end of the spectrum, with distinct if indirect echoes of Ornette Coleman's free-form blues vernacular.

(Rosenberg) ★ El Museo del Barrio: 'Testimonios: 100 Years of Popular Expression' (through May 6) The city's premier museum of Latin culture explores its holdings in urban folk art, so-called handicraft and other forms of vernacular expression and comes up with visual gold.

Abstracting the forms of vernacular Cuban structures -- lighthouse, factory, apartment house, church, jail -- into a collapsible city of tents, Mr. Arrechea, Mr. Rodríguez and Mr. Castillo have pared the inessentials and left only sleekly designed metaphors that have the surface clarity of work by Richard Artschwager or Donald Judd.

The vernacular form and physical pattern of settlements in Saudi Arabia evolved under the influence of visible and non-visible forces.

Comic books are what novels used to be -- an accessible, vernacular form with mass appeal -- and if the highbrows are right, they're a form perfectly suited to our dumbed-down culture and collective attention deficit.

Ebonics is a vernacular form of American English used in the home or for day-to-day communication rather than for formal occasions.