Sentence examples for received tradition from inspiring English sources

Because received tradition has failed them, the women create new spiritual rituals — for birth, death, healing and exorcising demons, among other things.

Understanding sport's routine events may come naturally to professional sportsmen, players and coaches, but that understanding tends to be intuitive, and based on years of received tradition.

Nonetheless, this form of Tantric symbolism, with its plethora of female buddhas and quasi-buddhas, has been taken for granted as part of the received tradition of virtually all Vajrayana Buddhists.

Joel Polack, an author who travelled in New Zealand in the 1830s, wrote that "the natives claim to have received tradition that very large birds had existed, but the scarcity of animal food, as well as the easy method of entrapping them, had caused their extermination".

The book has been so thoroughly absorbed into critical history that people quote her insights – such as the contrasting imagery of mirrors and windows connected with inward-looking Hetty and outward-looking Dinah in Adam Bede – as received tradition without even knowing their source.

This was a period of immense academic daring (and, thought some, of over-reaching) as Hill scythed through received tradition in his study of AntiChrist In 17th-century England (1971) and his controversial study of Milton And The English Revolution (1977), which, like many of his later works, was written at the plain but lovely house in Périgord which Bridget badgered him into buying in 1969.

And then there are the less obvious but equally insidious types of oppression -- like well-meaning parents who in their shortsightedness, out of fear, apathy or loyalty to received traditions, ask their children to abdicate their God-given humanity and responsibility for their own selves.

To my American ears, the instrument bridges the sonic gap between the received European tradition and our native jazz.

Furthermore, knowledge received from tradition is not only immediately received, but is additionally immediately certain to its recipient(s).

Kuhn's move again raises the question whether the authors of a revolution must knowingly break from the received research tradition.

They receive, by tradition, a 20% cut of any trading profits, a reward known as the "incentive fee" or "carry".