Sentence examples for mainstream tradition from inspiring English sources

The distinctiveness of the Donegal tradition led to some conflict between Donegal players and representatives of the mainstream tradition when Irish traditional music was organised in the 1960s.

For Mr. Magee, his accomplishment is more than that: "He brought together, at the point of their highest development, the mainstream tradition of Western music, the mainstream tradition of Western theater and the mainstream tradition of Western philosophy".

Beauty - as photographed in the mainstream tradition that prevailed until recently - blurred women's sexuality.

Christians brought up in the mainstream tradition knew several important things about the anecdotal evidence.

His sermons were often lessons in worldly success — how-to-do-it manuals in the mainstream tradition of Billy Graham and Norman Vincent Peale.

In doing so, he said, he was following a mainstream tradition of turning to companies for support for museum shows involving their products.

Gradually the ear responds to Jonathan Cohen's musically intelligent mix of period and mainstream traditions, delivered by top musicians.

The main lesson of period-style performance -- that musical ideas can be underlined, slanted, curved and colored in many different ways for the purposes of expressive liveliness -- had been well learned, absorbed into this orchestra's solid mainstream traditions.

For all our differences, the mainstream traditions all advocate various forms of compassion, mercy, love.

First, while acknowledging critical differences between religions, the mainstream traditions all understand themselves as competing against enemies such as meaninglessness and injustice.

It is clear that as a religion formulated during an era of political ascendancy, the mainstream traditions of Islam have yet to find comfortable moorings as minorities in the contested public spaces of a secular, pluralist West.