Sentence examples for traditions set from inspiring English sources

Even in their own field they tend, like painters, to work within traditions set by great masters rather than to think everything out from scratch for themselves.

In response to the economic upheaval, local histories were written and traditions set down in an effort to keep them from disappearing.

Mr. Martins honors the supposedly "neo-classical" traditions set by the company that George Balanchine founded, with Lincoln Kirstein, in America.

Mr. McCain, who had never taken much interest in judicial confirmations or Senate traditions, set out to lead a bipartisan group that could find middle ground.

We come to see that some traditions keep us grounded, but that, in our modern world, other traditions set us back".

Choreographed by Ms. Colaco, who was born in India and moved from Florida to Mount Kisco in 2002, it portrays an international array of holiday traditions set to Duke Ellington's jazz arrangement of Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Suite".

With Pope John XXIII (reigned 1958 63), a dismantling (aggiornamento) of antimodernism and a more critical attitude toward "tradition" set in; this extended to traditional dogmatic views as well as to the liturgy and church structure.

And falling behind the great, world-beating, pioneering tradition set by those who came before us.

In this role he continued a tradition set up by John Stuart Mill and preserved by Bertrand Russell.

It runs against the genre, resisting a conservative tradition: set in Liverpool, championing an old-style working class, without a romance at its centre.

Rowling, taking a new turn after her series of Harry Potter books, has written a state-of-England novel in the grand Victorian tradition, set in the little town of Pagford.