Had she herself not once been an outsider, opening Darcy's heart and heritage against the stern judgment of tradition?
"Transcendental Black Metal," a lecture by Hunter Huntheendrix, the young singer and guitarist of the Brooklyn band Liturgy, gave the Nordic black-metal tradition a stern challenge, and amounted to an artistic manifesto for his own band.
As I connected with the fine families maintaining their blue-blooded traditions (against stern headwinds), I imagined their ancestors' lives a century ago when their grandparents weathered the same changes many of us watched the nobles of "Downton Abbey" endure.
There aren't many laughs to be had though, as the LOL here is the Loyal Orange Lodge, a pretty stern bunch with long held traditions of pissing people off, doing what they want and ethno-religious chauvinism.
Quote: "In contrast to the stern self-abnegation of these older traditions, therapeutic culture is profoundly democratic, holding out the idea that everyone has a right to minimize personal suffering and make a grasp at happiness".
Mrs. Russo's name is inscribed on the boat's stern, which is one break with Venetian tradition Mr. Russo allowed himself.
Another southern tradition may therefore be in play: stern paternalism imposed by the mostly-white haves on the mostly-black have-nots.Other Wilson residents black and white, rich and poor say the law has nothing to do with race and class.
In Germany well-preserved paintings of the early 12th century at Idensen, in lower Saxony, have strong four-square compositions and clearly contoured, stern-faced figures, which stem from late Ottonian tradition.
He supports tradition against liberalism, autocracy against democratic institutions, stern uniformity against Enlightenment pluralism.
The German firm now has what it wanted: a Mercedes Formula One car from stem to stern; a return to the Silver Arrows in the tradition of the all-conquering cars of the 1930s and 1950s.
