Sentence examples for tradition less from inspiring English sources
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Such a view would actually comport well with an older philosophical tradition less interested in the meanings of our words and concepts, and more interested in the "essences" of the worldly phenomena they pick out.
There's another tradition, less well viewed, less well produced, less allusive and indirect.
Sure, it's a tradition less time-honored than, say, Cracker Jacks or getting in a verbal altercation with the drunk guy in Section 118, but that's only because selfie creators, otherwise known as smartphones, haven't existed as long as Cracker Jacks or mean, drunk people!
Americans were apprehensive about unfamiliar traditions, less willing to try new things.
Today, we see religious traditions less as some inviolable custom and more as a cultural resource for cultivating kindness and truth.
That we borrow from each other and build new on top of old foundations doesn't make any of these traditions less powerful or delightful or sacred.
Why does the art-music tradition seem less and less central?
On the other hand, many items of folk literature, because of historic movements or overwhelming foreign influences or the mere lack of skillful practitioners of the tradition, become less and less important, and occasionally die out from the oral repertory.
Furthermore, she argued, "Liberals have been more welcoming – 'Come in, join our club, join our movement.' Conservatives have by nature and tradition been less summoning, less welcoming, as if they don't know politics is a game of addition".
Miss Shah and Mr. Bafana, both born and brought up in the United States, are from relatively traditional Indian families, and their introduction and courtship represented a melding of Indian tradition and less formal American ways.
