Sentence examples for lofty tradition from inspiring English sources

The nature of their chemistry is apparent even to outsiders: the Chicago, in its current incarnation, is an ensemble of perfectionists, intent on maintaining and possibly raising their lofty tradition, which goes back to 1891.

Ken Price's work is the contemporary continuation of that lofty tradition and a good buy if you can get it.

Clearly, a camp chair must live up to lofty traditions.

Fantastically carved ivory horns and geometrically patterned raffia weavings from that time bespeak lofty traditions.

Somehow, the visual arts have resisted the American democratic impulse to recreate Europe's loftiest traditions as vernacular entertainments.

Even if many of them show more integrity and personal vision than most Hollywood fare, hardly any aspire to the lofty intellectual tradition of the greatest European films from 1950's and 60's.

In fact, of the 18 four-year colleges in Nassau and Suffolk counties, 12 are less than 50 years old, scant time for lofty intellectual traditions to take root.

As an officer of the Mozes S. Schupf Foundation, together with her husband Mordecai, Dr. Katz carries on the lofty values of Jewish tradition and ethics that she learned from her father.

In their telling, Mr Reid left the chamber's traditions of lofty debate and bipartisan compromise in ruins.

An extraordinary matriarch who personified the loftiest values of Jewish tradition and ethics, her very being radiated kindness, dignity, modesty and joy.

The screenplay, adapted by Ronald Harwood from his drama (which played on Broadway seven years ago with Ed Harris as the major), retains a theatrically oratorical tone, as it lays out a familiar moral debate about art and society: How could a nation with such lofty artistic and intellectual traditions descend into barbarism?