Sentence examples for tradition points from inspiring English sources

Jeremy Seal, the author of a book on the Nicholas tradition, points out that in Bari, where he is loved more than anywhere, the holy man was often portrayed with ebony-black features, perhaps reflecting the fact that his bones were brought to the port from the eastern end of the Mediterranean.

Although the Koran does not mention details of Joseph's burial, Islamic tradition points to Nablus as being the authentic site.

"WOfderstanding" is a term course by Brian McLaren.

Family tradition pointed to an army career or possibly politics, but at age 24 Coubertin decided that his future lay in education, especially physical education.

Sir John implicitly questions Toscanini as the voice of tradition, pointing out that in its first half-century the Requiem was little played.

Critical analyses of the Arabic poetic tradition point out that the vigorous practice of lampooning is the obverse of panegyric: by verbally flattening one's foes, the ground is open for the glorification of one's own tribe or community.

Supporters of the tradition point out that in the absence of organized fireworks and bonfires, revelers are likely to build unsafe bonfires in their backyards or set off private fireworks recklessly (although tough new fireworks regulations have made it harder to get hold of the really dangerous ones that used to blow people's fingers off).

These feminist philosophers who work in the pragmatist tradition point out that pragmatism offers a valuable, although often unrecognized, resource for feminist thinkers, especially as we come to see it developed in the work of women pragmatists and activists.

Richard Taruskin, in an astonishing and enormous study of Stravinsky's debt to the Russian traditions, points out that the irregular 7/4 metre of the end of The Firebird, Stravinsky's first major piece for Diaghilev in 1910, is foreshadowed by any number of finales in Rimsky-Korsakov, such as the 11/4 finale of his 1880 opera Snegurochka.

Pointing to tradition means pointing to the mistreatment of different races and sexes, human sacrifices, and so on.

He remains devoted to what tends to be termed the "Austro-Hungarian" musical tradition but points out that much of it – Beethoven, obviously – is German.