Sentence examples for points of cultural from inspiring English sources

So too are ancient burial mounds and other points of cultural interest.

From the Gatehouse, some of the other points of cultural revitalization are visible.

Mike McCartney of the Hawaii Tourism Authority says that Hawaii is trying to market the points of cultural connection, such as the fact that Sun Yat-sen, the founder of modern China, went to school in Hawaii.

Brazil and Mexico, the region's two giants, share no heroes and few points of cultural or historical reference with each other, or with Spanish-speaking South America.After much head-scratching, we opted to name the column after Andrés Bello (1781-1865), a Venezuelan-born polymath, educator, writer and diplomat.

There is the blending of high and low points of cultural reference; the love of bright color and the broadly brushed renderings of people and of architecture; the expressive, even crude handling of paint and other materials, and finally, what you might call an overwhelming preoccupation with narrative.

But also: the Cold War, Elvis Presely, the KGB, violence on television, the Daughters of the American Revolution, Walter Cronkite, and endless points of cultural influence, all together barraging the reader with context upon context framing the world in which we live.

Opera looms large as a point of cultural pride, even if many cultural commentators say that the glory of Italian opera is a memory.

Hall was hard-headed in his assessment: "Against the urgency of people dying in the streets, what in God's name is the point of cultural studies?..

And that's one point of cultural difference that government education-planners in the cash-strapped west could learn a thing or two about from the desert kingdom.

(Part of the original point of cultural studies as a discipline, after all, was the application of scholarly tools to subjects not traditionally considered worthy of scholarly consideration: an intellectual dispensation whereby damn near anything got to be considered a "text").

It has reached a tipping point of cultural value; a consensus has formed that The Hurt Locker is a tremendously good and important film and, just as Avatar's non-US box office performance was so important, so the lavish praise from critics all over the world has impressed the industry back in Hollywood.