Sentence examples for universal traditions from inspiring English sources

"The whole show is a kind of reinvention of universal traditions of great comic archetypes of physical clowning and the indestructible old guy," said Nicholas Hytner, the director of "One Man, Two Guvnors" and the artistic director of the National Theater in London, where the show had its premiere last year.

Yet in Britain, the 24th lacks a universal tradition, leaving us free to create our own rituals.

But it also illustrates and reinforces the notion that there is a universal tradition of telling our stories with music, words, images and dance".

Suicide, which had been an intellectual fascination for me in the grand, universal tradition of adolescent angst, suddenly became startlingly viable.

Dismissing the idea that the relics of antiquity were part of some universal tradition, he suggested that Paestum should be seen in the light of its context and historical moment.

What ties all these photos together is a sense of shared humanity, or, as the editor and curator Clément Chéroux puts it in his commentary for a guileless photo essay on the sharing of freshly baked bread, "there exists a common denominator that transcends all frontiers — a universal tradition that unites even the most disparate of peoples".

After completing service with the United States Marine Corps, Josh recommitted himself to a career in restaurants, inspired by the universal tradition and importance food has for all peoples across the globe.

Protestant churches have usually viewed their synods or assemblies as competent to "interpret" doctrine under the supreme norm of Scripture and with the guidelines provided by the earlier creeds and confessions that come from the general tradition of the "church universal" or their particular tradition.

What universal cultural tradition does Mr. Ardekani poke fun at on his blog?

They often stayed for days at a time, sleeping in a vacant house nearby, and sometimes they'd disappear for several weeks, in the universal contractors' tradition.

"My concern is that Dr. Braxton, in his writings, has taken an Afrocentrist view that is not necessarily consistent with the universal, embracing tradition of our church," said Constance Guice-Mills, a retired psychotherapist, who is black, and who wrote to the committee with her concerns.