Sentence examples for strain of tradition from inspiring English sources

The series is one of a number now on television to break with a long strain of tradition by casting ambition as something healthy, positive, redemptive and even honorable, and its absence an agent of ostentatious humiliation.

But there were also the melancholy strains of tradition and reminders of Mr. Bellow's deep sense of his Jewishness.

For example, different strains of tradition in the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible) have been connected with different stages in the development of Israelite religion.

But we must be clear, as Merritt is, on the costs: to eschew traits is not only a departure from central strains of the virtue ethics tradition, it is a departure from an attractive strain of that tradition.

Skeptics see a deeper strain of Russian tradition: trying to catch up with the West by wielding the power of the state.

The club, smack in the middle of Cajun country, is one of the biggest and busiest in the state, but Woodchopper's words carry the strain of a tradition that is in its twilight.

Each book vitalizes different strains of oral tradition.

The four poetry books facilitate appreciations of the intrinsic pleasures and communal values inherent in different strains of Jewish tradition.

Art Blakey, drummer and bandleader, was a jazz visionary whose intuitions and innovations are a crucial and enduring strain of the modern tradition.

If there's a unifying principle it's head-in-the-clouds dreaminess, though the uncanny strain of the folk tradition whereby lovers turn into foxes is disappointingly absent.

Yiannis Makridakis, 40, a Greek novelist whose work touches on themes of tradition and regionalism, represents a different strain of refugee, with a more political tinge.