True to the Japanese tradition, the elements mimic nature: raked gravel imitates flowing water, the large boulders are islands in the river.
Though you could see how the zapateo footwork — tapping heel and toe, sometimes adding various slaps of the hands — became a Peruvian tradition combining elements from different cultures, this version seemed, in winsomely tourist manner, mainly to feature the lowest common denominators.
Tales of his evangelistic activities generated a largely oral tradition, and elements of some stories contradicted others.
Following the Beaux-Arts tradition, the elements of architecture were conceived as hollow, thus creating pocketing spaces within both structures.
For many Jews and Christians, the next two weeks bring opportunities to share meals and practice traditions whose elements never escape memory.
The term is itself of Greek origin and thus represents only one part of the tradition, one element in the terms that have gone into making up Christianity.
They've added to this core of May traditions some elements of a music festival and others of a renaissance fair.
In 1941, Glenn T. Seaborg named the newly created element plutonium after Pluto, in keeping with the tradition of naming elements after newly discovered planets, following uranium, which was named after Uranus, and neptunium, which was named after Neptune.
Like avant-garde art, the avant-garde approach to vegetables can take many forms: investing ordinary objects with extra significance, boldly upending a tradition or juxtaposing elements that appear disparate.
In this regard as well, Hegel sought a compromise between modernity's extreme devaluation of tradition and the elements of rootedness and continuity that it could provide, thereby preventing the autonomous subject from spinning out of control as it were.
