Sentence examples for traditional commentaries from inspiring English sources

Traditional commentaries beginning with the Hanfeizi often play on the homonymic relation between de (virtue) and another graph also pronounced de, which means to "acquire" or "obtain" something.

What could then entangle you? (-- from Zhuangzi, The Essential Writings, With Selections from Traditional Commentaries, translated by Brook Ziporyn, Hackett, 2009, p. 84).

The traditional commentary is that they were literally transformed into lower animals.

Later Judaism, while recognizing the unique place of the Bible as the written source of revelation, accords equal authority to the Talmud as traditional commentary.

In Mr. Cady's comedy "Nostalgia Kills You," the chorus is relegated to a more traditional commentary role as a young man (the smooth-voiced bass Vince B. Vincent) meets up with a deceased ex-girlfriend (the bright-toned soprano Erin Flannery) — now a zombie.

Finally, when he published an edition of an Aristotelian treatise, Lefèvre also wrote a more traditional commentary.

According to Jeff Wilson, the author of "Mindful America: The Mutual Transformation of Buddhist Meditation and American Culture," mindfulness in traditional Buddhist commentaries was "presented as a strenuous, lifelong task, one that occurs within a framework of renunciation and detachment".

The red carpet was a mixture of traditional wardrobe commentary ("Hashtag fail!" a commentator said, of one outfit) and social consciousness, feminist and otherwise.

HBC is to be contrasted with traditional biblical commentary.

Some of these works are written in the traditional form of commentaries on Buddhist scriptures, while others range more widely over topics such as interreligious dialogue and the compatibility of Buddhism and science.

Rudolph Giuliani gave the traditional opposition-party commentary, a sodden, lengthy oration that some claimed was a Democratic plot to spoil his future political chances.