Sentence examples for generically American from inspiring English sources

Jazz, blues, soul, reggae, and hip hop are now seen as generically American, yet artists like Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry, and Bob Marley, who questioned the allure of mobility and speed, are not understood by people who have drained their music of its moral power.

As James Ellroy later summed the whole business up: "A righteously generically American film movement that exposited one great theme, and that theme is: you're fucked".

In this case your surroundings are a small cityscape that appears intended to be generically American (though several of the storefronts are drawn directly from small businesses on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which happens to be my neighborhood).

When the first Joseph Coury came to the United States, immigrants were encouraged to become as generically American as possible, expressing their cultural traditions mainly within their own homes and enclaves.

"If we used American actors, I would be apprehensive that people would say, 'Oh, you have to be American to do that.' " (A New York audience may take a few moments to adjust to the cast's accents; van Hove called for them to be generically American rather than specific to Brooklyn. "It is not a historically accurate production," he told me).

She may sound different in each movie -- upper-crustily British in "The Hours" and "The Others," liltingly southern in "Cold Mountain," mumblingly New England in "The Human Stain," generically American in "Eyes Wide Shut" and "Dogville" -- but she is always essentially recognizable, always, in classic movie-star style, herself.

"Generically, Bell Labs is wonderful at inventing things," Steven D. Levy, an analyst with Lehman Brothers, said on Friday.

So if it turns out that large numbers of people use "app store" generically, Apple's case is weakened.

Liz Boston If I hear one more actor sound generically Southern in any Tennessee Williams play set in the Crescent City, I'm going to burn a black candle on them.

Such situations gave rise to planning, contracting, and installing a network of gauge stations (generically called DCP or Data Collecting Platforms, Fig. 1 (left)) of several types, whose data are integrated in order to deliver trustful information on real time about specific climate variables at a given location on the Brazilian territory.

Also a series of policy documents, including NICE guidance on heart failure [ 2], a National Service Framework on Coronary Heart Disease [ 14] and, more generically, the End of Life Care Strategy [ 15] have included this group of patients.