Sentence examples for hand of tradition from inspiring English sources

The cold, dead hand of tradition smothers new ways of running Westminster, making them unthinkable.

Mr. Douthat shrinks from such reforms, evidently preferring the dead hand of tradition.

In particular, in Tagore's hands, women are complex, misunderstood characters who fall and fail under the heavy hand of tradition.

Inbox A Ph.D. in English Lit.? In my day at the Graduate College, English grad students first had to learn Anglo-Saxon, the dead hand of tradition.

A snob and a racist (he regards the Apaches as "breech-clad savages"), Thursday represents the dead hand of tradition; only by getting him out of the way can the young couple be formed and the future take shape.

And even this secular, ecumenical Jew experienced a primitive tribal stirring in learning of a deep genealogy that coincides with the handing down of traditions I grew up with.

And when certain states impose what they refer to as sharia or when certain Muslim activists demand its recognition alongside secular jurisdictions, they are usually referring not to a universal and fixed code established once for all but to some particular concretisation of it at the hands of a tradition of jurists.

It's such a trippingly familiar cliché, so Englishly replete with the hand-me-down vanity of tradition, the authority of history, the sonorous tic of convention.

"Cats" are a popular delicacy in the rural corners of the southern and midwest states of America; historians record that southern American Indians used to dive down and catch the fish by hand, a tradition of fishing without hook or line taken up by rural settlers across the region.

It's science, on the one hand, but also an act of tradition, of artisanship and even of intentional imprecision that runs counter to the way most technology accomplishes things, in exact, measured ways.

On the one hand, it leans heavily upon notions of tradition in marketing its products and services.