Sentence examples for oppression of tradition from inspiring English sources

At the story's end Miranda rejects the oppression of tradition, but the final line – arriving like a blow – describes "her hopefulness, her ignorance", and implies that her supposed escape is only the next wave of myth making in process.

This feminist perspective on the oppression of looking turns the ancient tradition of the nude in art inside out to display the pain of being gazed at.

No, but unless green campaigning is genuinely about liberating people, which involves criticising elements of "tradition" whether in terms of the oppression of women or green warfare, it is not going to get very far.

Dorothy's friend Molly Cora Leee Day), whose salty home wisdom bears the sharp lyrical voice of tradition while weighted down with the stalwart passivity ingrained by oppression, mocks the woman on the poster as "a broad with a gun".

From this same circle of tradition (chapter 11) comes the account of Saul's heroic deliverance of the town of Jabesh-Gilead from oppression by the Ammonites, which brought him to the attention of all Israel and resulted in his acclamation as king in a public ceremony at Gilgal.

You see class divisions, the cruelty of the state, the oppression of women and their ways of resisting it, traditions of generosity and hospitality, and above all a passion for argument.

Music, in fact, is a MacGuffin in this story about tradition, hoodoo (folk magic) and the oppression of African-American women.

At this, it occurred to me that the real tragedy of the film's dated legacy lay in the continued oppression of Muslim women in migrant communities where culture and tradition serve as excuses to deny agency.

The oppression of Palestinians is appalling.

e. the oppression of women.

The institutionalized oppression of women.