Sentence examples for social trappings from inspiring English sources

The Digambara ("Sky-Clad"; i.e., nude) sect is so called because its monks used to go naked to signify their complete detachment from worldly things and social trappings.

The second remains an unrepentant radical who has meticulously rid his music of all the cultural and social trappings of the past.

Yet, despite Brown's insistence on the rigor of Fitzgerald's thinking, the book suggests that he was ensnared by the very social trappings he disdained.

Biden urged the seniors not to succumb to pressures that value "the social trappings of success rather than really making a difference," but to choose what's best and most important to them, rather than caving to other people's perceptions.

Class Day speaker, former Vice President Joe Biden, urged seniors not to succumb to pressures that value "the social trappings of success rather than really making a difference," but to choose what's best and most important to them.

The pill arrived at a time when abortion was illegal everywhere in the United States and when growing numbers of young women were striving to liberate themselves from the social trappings of premarital chastity and vocational suppression.

Unlike most photo-sharing apps, Rando eschews the usual social network trappings.

DeVos' agenda has always been the reformers' reality, but has been shrouded in faux social justice trappings so as to make it seem altruistic.

Audiard uses genre – most notably, the revenge drama, but he also draws on westerns, with his story of a grizzled central figure preparing to make one last stand to protect his territory and loved ones – to lift his story, for a while, out of the social-realist trappings he himself has so painstakingly detailed.

You invert an hourglass when the sand runs out, and the fashion world inverts the social hierarchy when the trappings of privilege lose their glamour.

With its country music characterizations and its wintry panoramas (by the snow specialist Alar Kivilo, who also shot "A Simple Plan") "The Lookout" feels less like a modern film noir than a social drama with noir trappings.