These events and the long shadow of their effects are the inevitable historical grace note in customary behaviour, events, food, language, manners and social structures.
For Burke, the idea of inheritance extended far beyond property to include language, manners and morals, and appropriate responses to the human condition.
The logic of Wonderland is the logic of a bright child's boredom – picking away at language, manners and stuffed specimens – while the adults drone on in the background.
Berlin's Love Parade attracted young people from all over the world, eclipsing memories of the city's role in the Nazi era.Communist-imposed modernity defaced and debased cityscapes, language, manners and much more in the last century.
Macaulay believed historians should reclaim the imaginative realm "appropriated by the historical novelist" – that they should "make the past present … bring the distant near … call up our ancestors before us with all their peculiarities of language, manners and garb … show us over their houses … seat us at their tables … rummage their old-fashioned wardrobes".
Increased contact with Western languages, manners, and customs came to the Ashkenazim only in the 18th century, when new economic opportunities created such possibilities.
The language, the manner, the tone of the dialogue between judge, defendant and plaintiff all reflect their age.
Ladinos were accepted by neither the various Maya peoples nor by the Spanish, whose language and manner of dress they adopted and who considered them superior to the Maya but inferior to themselves.
Mr. Ziegler concurred in this after a long and solemn interval of chewing, but he insisted that he had a moral duty, as a resident of the neighborhood and a man in whom the precinct reposed its confidence, to expose the fellow who expressed his political beliefs in a language and manner alien to the best traditions of the democratic process.
But for Reid, it was enough not only to level his charge but also, as the days pressed on, to double and triple down on it, his language and manner growing more righteous even as his evidence grew no more detailed or persuasive.
