It is part of our shared artistic patrimony.
People may assume that museums have ample facilities to easily house, catalog and preserve what is our country's shared cultural patrimony.
And further, as a friend and lover of grammar pointed out, "when you muddy the waters needlessly, you poison the well of our shared linguistic patrimony". Yes, words have meanings, shared meanings, and different words have different nuances.
Comparing the incorporation of foreigners to sword- and fire-swallowing feats at a circus, James reflected on what it meant for America to share its patrimony with those "inconceivable aliens".
The Charter will also help define a 'collective patrimony of values and principles and a shared system of fundamental rights which bind citizens together and underpin the Union' s internal policies', a patrimony we must constantly defend against the racist and xenophobic tendencies that have, alas, not disappeared.
Natural resources are seen by many as a national patrimony, meaning all profits should be shared.
Jews and Christians share an immense spiritual patrimony, flowing from God's self-revelation.
More than anything, though, it reflects the lack of a shared culture, a confidence that we can celebrate, as a people and as a nation, a great building, great music or even, more generally, a cultural patrimony that makes us proud to be who we are without having to apologise for it.
A fuller discussion might examine other progressive rationales for nationhood, including the importance of a shared national language for democratic participation and equality of opportunity, or the role of nationhood in motivating concern for future generations (understood as the nation's future) and the environment (understood as the nation's homeland and patrimony).
Whatever the disputes between China and Taiwan, he said, the two share a common patrimony.
"This is public patrimony, and the public should see it," Sharon said about sharing the Hearst's collections.
