Sentence examples for tradition drawing from inspiring English sources

Is this a charming tradition, drawing folks together, or a sly expression of secret rampant egomania?

He was fully conversant with the classical tradition, drawing for his own purposes on such writers as Virgil, Cicero, and Boethius.

Gretel C. Kovach, U-T San Diego: Surfers tossed flower leis into the water during the hourlong memorial, in a Polynesian tradition drawing on Seau's Samoan ancestry.

Open 3pm-1am Olise is a Mumbai tradition, drawing a mix of Bollywood actors, Bollywood wannabes and amused locals to its TGIT (Thank God It's Thursday) see-and-be-seen night.

All are adventurous young American directors who represent a break from the domestic indie tradition, drawing instead from the humanist, neorealist school and contemporary descendants like Iran's Abbas Kiarostami, Taiwan's Hou Hsiao-hsien and Belgium's Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne.

His songs come steeped in tradition, drawing on the bleak folk ballads of England and Scotland, in which you're never more than a few lines away from a painful and tragic death.

A religious painter trained in the tradition draws in the outline, often using printed designs for the main figures.

This reflects the influence of comic tradition drawn from such sources as commedia dell'arte, vaudeville, and music hall combined with such theatre arts as mime and acrobatics.

Last year, though, that tradition drew an incredulous response from officials of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., which had tried to force a vote on separating the jobs of chairman and chief executive.

While the care tradition grows out of a critical engagement with Anglo-American analytic and pragmatist philosophical traditions, the eros tradition draws centrally from Africana (including African American pragmatist), Continental, and other sources.

As noted most of those working in the falsafa tradition drew their inspiration from Aristotle and his later commentators, the most notable exception was the independent philosopher-physician Abu Bakr ar-Razi (ca. 864-925 or -930), whose natural philosophy and cosmology happily drew upon Arabic versions of Plato's Timeaus as well as certain non-Greek sources.