Sentence examples for traditions deriving from from inspiring English sources

In every way it evokes layers of classicism old and new, in which traditions deriving from ancient Greece and the Baroque are hugger-mugger with 20th-century jazziness and sly vaudeville fun.

These include Reiki, Polarity and Therapeutic Touch as well as massage traditions deriving from Eastern cultures, such as acupressure, Amma, Shiatsu and Tuina.

There is also the influence of Indonesian storytelling traditions, derived from classical Indian epics such as the Ramayana, and of the Wayang puppet theatre.

This is a relatively new idea in computing, whose traditions derive from mathematics and logic.

Many distinctive Barbadian musical and other cultural traditions derive from parodies of Anglican church hymns and British military drills.

A second tradition, deriving from Claudius Ptolemy, solved this problem by postulating three mechanisms: uniformly revolving, off-centre circles called eccentrics; epicycles, little circles whose centres moved uniformly on the circumference of circles of larger radius (deferents); and equants.

The general populace liked its four-based tradition derived from the body.

Cylindrical towers on the hills are used for shooting pigeons, a tradition derived from Lombardy.

C. 100 BCE - c. 1 BCE Saints Anne and Joachim, (flourished 1st century bc, Palestine; Western feast day July 26, Eastern feast day July 25) the parents of the Virgin Mary, according to tradition derived from certain apocryphal writings.

The flamenco tradition, derived from a marriage of Arabic and Spanish folk songs, carried over into southern Spain's unique "Rock Andaluz" movement of the 1970s and '80s, centred in Sevilla.

This tradition derives from the tradition of scholarly Biblical interpretation.