Sentence examples for stale tradition from inspiring English sources

But then his vision of how football should be played, how English football had to break out of a stranglehold of stale tradition, was never quite lost.

There are some who insist that good management skills are more important than mere credentials, stale tradition or a philosophy that knowledge matters.

There is a venerable — or, if you prefer, stale — tradition whereby older or more seasoned performers are slipped into superhero films to lend them gravity and heft.

Tuten's invincibly attractive, though cancerous, heroine does penetrate to a certain recognition of herself as poor faithful Echo in the Poussin painting of Echo and Narcissus (reproduced as a frontispiece), and claims to be "exhausted with herself" — "The hotel was tired with its stale tradition and tired carpets, and she was tired of her own story and its chronic repetitions".

Whenever he does get around to hanging art in his new house, he should go contemporary--that is, pick work made by living artists--and buck the stale tradition of very old, very realist portraits, landscapes and western stuff.

Bourne, who was born in New Jersey, in 1886, built his reputation in the nineteen-tens writing essays that exhorted men and women of his generation to cast off stale traditions.

Like Columbus Short's street moves, her personal flourishes shake up stale step traditions.

If America and its allies hope to identify and partner with Afghans who are willing and able to build a stable political and economic future, they must set aside the stale caricatures about "tradition" that have long dominated thinking about the region.

The cultural critic is the hero of this story, because it's her willingness to repeatedly reject stale or stupid traditions and conventions that keeps our whole stock of cultural behaviors from slowly deteriorating into a mass of irrelevant nonsense.

Originally developed in response to a highfalutin form gone stale, realism has a long and glorious tradition of extraordinary yarns about ordinary people.

Throughout, Mr Williamson is bold, ingenious and original; the tradition he opposes appears by contrast stale, scholastic and uninspired.