Sentence examples for rejecting tradition from inspiring English sources

In her community, unmarried women are viewed as rejecting tradition, and are outcasts as a result.

This pattern of affiliating and adapting was already evident in Vietnam's historical relations with China, and it reappeared as descendants of mandarins responded to the challenge of the West by rejecting tradition and becoming communists to combat colonialism.

As well as attacking "rationalists", who have a rational plan and believe in abstract rights, Oakeshott also criticised "empiricists", who claim to be pragmatic, rejecting tradition in favour of mere reaction to events.

Some read these plays for their profound human wisdom; others for their fearlessness in rejecting tradition; and still others for their haunting questions which, while admitting of no right or wrong answers, themselves open up still other disturbing far-reaching perspectives.

And while Mr. Sehgal rejects tradition, he is also in dialogue with it.

In Edo, the new commercial classes created a subculture, an alternative way of life that rejected tradition and embraced hedonism.

Again, at prime minister's questions, Mr Corbyn repeatedly rejects tradition, such that the opposition seizes this chance to flay the enemy.

What's notable is that along the way he rediscovered his identity as a Japanese artist, having initially rejected tradition out of disgust with the hyper-nationalism of imperial Japan.

In Paris the rudiments of what became pop art were there for the taking: the Dadaists had rejected tradition, Picasso had experimented with collage, the Surrealists pushed imagination to its limits.

She teaches me that it is possible to reject tradition and comfort.

Richards' church rejects tradition; they have no set meeting day or time, choosing to move elusively throughout the city.