Sentence examples for narrow celebration from inspiring English sources

But by querying the values that underpin capitalism's relentless and narrow celebration of "success" as dominance and power over others, we are reminded instead of what Morris called "the ornamental part of life".

It was an outright celebration, however narrow the result, of a candidate who eight years ago suffered a bruising defeat in the same state at the hands of Barack Obama.

Johnson said he hoped that the nineteen-nineties would see the emergence of a "black American fiction" that takes Ellison as its inspiration, "one that enables us as a people — as a culture — to move from narrow complaint to broad celebration".

In 1973, after Nixon's Bicentennial Commission failed in every attempt to organize a national celebration, it narrowed its focus to four cities, with Boston as its flagship.

Yet it was a narrow enough win that her celebration party earlier in the evening would quickly look premature.

Nor was there much celebration outside the narrow circle surrounding Mr. Maliki, a dour, divisive leader who nonetheless secured the official nomination for a second term as prime minister as Parliament ended its session Thursday night.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has narrowed that line after removing "excessive celebration," and the NFL isn't far behind.

Dogma movies use their technological limits to narrow the gap, none more so than Thomas Vinterberg's "Celebration" (1998) and Lars von Trier's recent and much more controversial "The Idiots".

Sony's indication that "Django Unchained" may be rescheduled suggested some relatively narrow problem, rather than broad objections to the movie's celebration of rebellion.

How could it not, when all art has to be viewed through one incredibly narrow filter before it's deemed worthy of attention, never mind celebration?

In the narrow alleyways around the 500-year-old Vihara Dharma Bhakti Temple, the celebration was unbridled.