Sentence examples for high traditions from inspiring English sources

He maintained the high traditions of the bar, which postulate that no person can be left undefended.

Whatever the case, Mr. Dodin and his designer, Aleksei Porai-Koshits, created a show whose visual qualities and elegant acting maintained the high traditions of the Maly.

It isn't so much traditional, as national and operatic: a high tradition in an increasingly "low time.

Two new films react against the high tradition by taking classic American genres – the Western and the thriller respectively – as starting points.

A solo show of her work opens at the Yvon Lambert Gallery on May 22. JOHN BOWE Reporting "How Green Is My Bali" (Page 78), the writer John Bowe investigated the island's continual tug of war between high tradition and high tourism.

THERE are two bloodlines in modern puppetry: the "low" subversive tradition of Punch and Judy, which is sometimes called "marketplace puppetry"; and the "high" tradition of Asian religious ritual and court ceremony, including Indonesian shadow puppets and Japanese Bunraku.

Many performances (among more than 200 by 26 companies on 14 stages) are clearly indebted to the high tradition, and many of them could be featured in an International Festival of Dance.

Passard was raised from childhood in the great, high tradition of French cooking, which is certainly cosmopolitan in its enthusiasms but remains at heart entirely French in its references and ideals.

But some lawyers argue that his willingness to stand by Mr. Komisarjevsky upholds the highest traditions of their profession.

Mr. Mussey writes this was because of "their artisan ambitions and habitual, even slavish, devotion to the highest traditions of quality and craftsmanship".

"By his professional skill, courage and devotion to duty," Commander Carmichael's Navy Cross citation says, he "upheld the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service".