Sentence examples for invoke culture from inspiring English sources

When people invoke culture in the Romney manner, what they are really invoking is a scale by which humanity may be ranked from totally dysfunctional to totally awesome.

He observed that opponents of change "may invoke culture, tradition or religion to defend the status quo".

Two invoke Japanese culture, riffing — as the show's title suggests — on cherry blossom season, which peaked in early April.

And there are still many people both Arabs (usually the ones in power) and observers of Arabs who invoke religion, culture and a medley of other excuses in order to argue that the Arab world is uniquely unsuited to democracy.

In one breath they'll invoke pop culture detritus, and in the next they'll draw on Surrealism as a way of thinking about art and design process.

They found it expedient to invoke Chinese "culture" to counter the demands of civil rights and black power activists for substantive change.

When directing actors, Timbers often invokes pop culture to help them grasp the emotional resonance of a distant historical moment.

Rightly invoking American culture in his subtitle, McCourt offers both a map of queer life ("the life" -- urbane gay male life) and a vision of the American Century.

There are hints of something more extravagantly and surprisingly idiosyncratic in works invoking popular culture like the junkyard giant and the baseball figures.

Three of the top 10 TiVo commercials invoked popular culture of the past, including Elton John and Flava Flav, for PepsiCola; "Star Wars," for Volkswagen; and "Seinfeld," for Acura.

(More common is the writer who invokes pop culture while remaining carefully distanced from it; who titles poems or books something like "The Rambo Variations"; who buttresses Walter Benjamin with Jay-Z).