Sentence examples for subtle tradition from inspiring English sources

The preshow talking goes against a subtle tradition.

Though Makino is an abstract filmmaker in the subtle tradition of Stan Brakhage, and Korb riffs on post-internet occultism, both shows feel like rituals in dialogue with one another, facilitated by the darkness.

A lot of jazz pianists might as well be wearing T-shirts bearing one name, that of their chosen hero; in an art of subtle tradition-passing, that's just the norm.

There were subtle traditions in my new Canadian home I had to get used to in Toronto, one must learn the art of chugging, because alcoholic beverages can't legally be served after 2 AM.

The success of the civil-rights movement had the paradoxical effect of strengthening this pernicious tradition by making white pride taboo; white politicians had to rely on increasingly subtle forms of coded speech.

"There are these subtle, quiet traditions that we don't care about or pay attention to because maybe we're too busy to notice or are inundated with the politics of daily life," he said.

His lyrics are not in the subtle Carly Simon tradition, but perhaps more heartfelt: "I hate you!

And also in the mix was the subtle, yet significant tradition of faith-filled lay activists like Fannie Lou Hamer and Marian Wright Edelman.

But in truth what felt new in his work had as much to do with subtle adaptations of tradition as it did with pioneering a brand new kind of non-fiction.

In the Aeneid Vergil closes his catalogue of combatants with the swift female warrior Camilla, alluding to the Hesiodic account of Iphiclus' speed in "a remarkably subtle nod to tradition in the best Alexandrian style".

The main lesson from these Egyptian debates over press freedom is that countries without government censorship are not above more subtle impediments to traditions of serious journalism.