John Harris believed that OK Computer was one of the "fleeting signs that British rock music might [have been] returning to its inventive traditions" in the wake of Britpop's demise.
Surely such an inventive and adaptive tradition can accommodate a woman in the lead?
The late nineteenth century was an inventive time for tradition-making.
Wilson, though, quick to adopt new personas, and adapt to new circumstances, adored the attention, and shrewdly exploited his role as local minor celebrity when it came to what he was really interested in - helping Manchester to recreate itself as a major city, with its radical, inventive and progressive traditions intact.
It was this inventive knack for invention within tradition that caused Delano to say, in 1928, "There is as much that is new to be said in architecture today by a man of imagination who employs traditional motifs as there is in literature by an author, who, to express his thought, still employs the English language".
Ghanaians aren't big on salads, but we do have plenty of wonderful fresh ingredients, so there's every opportunity to get inventive within the Ghanaian tradition.
Reasonable listeners may differ as to whether that was enough: for me, his interpretation was prettily turned but lightweight and uneventful, except in the showy cadenzas (his own), which were fiery and inventive, in the best tradition.
Sian's latest knife-edge EP continues the Octopus tradition of inventive, enigmatic dance music.
Our tradition as an inventive company has produced considerable intellectual property assets for our shareholders, and today's infringement litigation is part of our effort to protect and defend those assets".
It's closer in spirit to the bande dessinee, the French tradition of visually inventive, book-length, hard-cover comic books that were the writer-director's first love.
Brome was a prolific and inventive writer, continuing the Elizabethan dramatic tradition until the theatres were closed by order of Parliament in 1642.
