Sentence examples for native idiom from inspiring English sources

"The Paperboy" is what cinema scholars (and speakers fluent in the film's native idiom) might call a hot mess.

When he cooks in his native idiom, its bright, clear, vibrant flavors ring out like a trumpet.

He lifts Monk's melodies away from their native idiom of bebop and replants them in the musically cosmopolitan 21st century.

In America the sharp lines, clean textures and assertive rhythms of neo-Classicism allude more strongly to the construction of a still-young country and a native idiom.

It's clear, by contrast, that Kelman wants his creation to speak in his native idiom, even at the risk of banality.

It is exceedingly comforting to know that he retains at least one tiny fragrant of our earthy native idiom depsite his long absence from our midst.

Early ukiyo-e artists brought with them a sophisticated knowledge of and training in the composition principals of classical Chinese painting; gradually these artists shed the overt Chinese influence to develop a native Japanese idiom.

Linked at first with Paris, it gradually developed its own balletic idiom from native as well as imported sources.

Trying to address the native in his own idiom, it never quite hits the mark because all the copy is being turned out by fashionable young men who seldom get out of their own cultural group.

Language was "a way of getting out of myself," Waldrop writes, while remaining "irredeemably between cultures" (her native German, the American idiom of her artistic maturity) and words: the gaps that await gardening.

Without compromising his expert sleuthing techniques ("blunder around, ask questions, get in people's way, be annoying"), he manages to pick up enough regional skills to communicate with the devious natives in their own idiom -- and catch them at their own wicked games.