Throughout there is a rigorous commitment to some notion -- traditional or idiosyncratic -- of aesthetic quality; slacker-style delinquency is blessedly absent.
Not only empowering and visually alluring, "Bloodlines", combines material recorded in Khartoum, the use of traditional percussion, idiosyncratic harmonies blended with the grove of hip-hop; delivering an intoxicating blend of hip-hop, electronica and a traditional Sudanese sound.
Especially ravishing is a shelf crowded with elegant ceramics by Shio Kusaka, a Japanese potter living in Los Angeles, who inflects traditional forms with subtle, idiosyncratic imperfections.
The Unthanks are a traditional, though unique and idiosyncratic, folk outfit from Northumberland fronted by sisters Rachel and Becky Unthank and managed by Rachel's husband Adrian McNally, who also produces, arranges and plays with the band.
Modernist architecture is about symmetry, contemporaneity and the idea of universal solutions; its marriage with baseball, easily the most idiosyncratic and traditional of sports, was doomed from the start.
Traditional garb is more idiosyncratic and popular here than anywhere else in Germany, and merges more easily with ultra-modern, high-tech life styles and industries.The state is also the only one in which the country's largest party, the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) led by chancellor Angela Merkel, is not present at all.
Like Moulding Tradition and Autarchy, it originated in Sicily and will explore an idiosyncratic aspect of traditional craftsmanship there.
The ballet, danced to recorded music, was essentially traditional in style, with no idiosyncratic symbolism or ideological concepts.
Viewed from Moretti's statistical mountaintop, traditional literary criticism, with its idiosyncratic, personal focus on individual works, can seem self-indulgent, even frivolous.
By using the traditional concept of essence in this idiosyncratic way, Spinoza gives it a new sense of activity and dynamism.
