Sentence examples for peasant roots from inspiring English sources

It lost its peasant roots long ago.

From his peasant roots, Saramago acknowledged, he has derived a certain fatalistic pragmatism.

The spare interior focuses attention on a contemporary Italian menu that doesn't forget its peasant roots.

True to the music's itinerant peasant roots, the 13 women donned cowboy "charro" skirt suits and swept up their hair in buns.

Ever the rebel, Anthony Bourdain opts for chicken stock, while, perhaps in obedience to the dish's peasant roots, Raymond Blanc uses good old water.

Of the Presença group, Miguel Torga (pseudonym of Adolfo Correia da Rocha), a poet and storyteller and the author of autobiographical works and memoirs, showed a radical individualism that took its strength from his peasant roots in northern Portugal.

Like many of the hundreds of Chinese towns that have grown into cities over the past 30 years, it is full of brand-new but cheaply constructed skyscrapers, casting shadows on rough-looking peasants, their root vegetables stuffed in shoulder bags as they trudge along newly paved highways.

Such were the roots of peasant anti-semitism in Russia.

Another is most countries' recent roots in peasant farming.

Distrust of the wealthy runs deep in Russian society, with its roots in peasant culture.

Knotted Mazovian rugs of East Prussia show the strongest Oriental influence, though at the same time they are deeply rooted in peasant traditions.