Sentence examples for tradition drawn from inspiring English sources

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.

This tradition, drawn from the prophets of the Hebrew Old Testament, has been utilized by individuals at crucial moments in American history to call the nation to be faithful to the sacred values of its democratic experiment.

In 2004, the year he retired, that trip — by then a tradition — drew 200 people.

Sangeeta Bhatia's research defies tradition, drawing on biological and medical sciences, and multiple engineering disciplines.

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

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

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.

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.

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.