Sentence examples for received forms from inspiring English sources

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In the process, though, he ended up turning the theater world — famously liberal politically yet notoriously conservative regarding received forms — on its head.

Both dramatized a sense of historical exhaustion — having "nowhere to go and no one much to go with," in Salle's words — with ingenious slants on received forms.

A bit of a theory: female artists often seek the duende in this way, by cutting up and cutting through received forms, by remaining skeptical of form and artistic tradition, however beautifully composed or elegant.

In contrast to these resettings of received forms, Wagner, Verdi, and Bizet achieved a new kind of tragic power for Romanticism in the theme of the operatic love-death in, respectively, Tristan and Isolde, Aida, and Carmen.

Supposedly, the critique was aimed not at Merrill himself ("a poet of solid accomplishment and sure craftsmanship") but, rather, at the taste of the administrators of the prize, for believing that "poetry is a hermetic cultivation of one's sensibility and a fastidious manipulation of received forms".

Novelists and poets parodied received forms and styles, in their view made redundant by the immensity and horror of the war, but, as can be seen most clearly in Pound's angry and satirical Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), with a note of anguish and with the wish that writers might again make form and style the bearers of authentic meanings.

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But he was no mere imitator of received form, whether natural or artificial.

How is the C.D.C. using additional funding they have recently received form the Department of Health and Human Services?

In addition, it said, "no adverse comments were received form the operators after more than 16 million flight hours".

In northern Afghanistan, Northern Alliance forces have bragged about the support they have received form the Americans as a badge of respect.

A grant was received form ZonMw Doelmatigheid, the Dutch Organization for Health Research, the Netherlands (project no. 170882501).

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