Sentence examples for venerable practice from inspiring English sources
But this venerable practice has virtually disappeared with the coming of supertitles.
One down side of the popularity of titles has been to marginalize the venerable practice of performing opera in translation.
Performing along to recordings of oneself is a venerable practice, and it is usually accompanied by a whiff of critical disapproval.
Speaking out to express our political beliefs or show disapproval of those in power is part of the venerable practice of nonviolent civil disobedience.
Some years ago, welfare for people was recognized as something to be restricted as much as possible for everyone's good, yet the venerable practice of handing out money to corporations has survived the rhetoric of the Clinton years and has flourished anew in the aftermath of Sept. 11.
A new way of making ions could revolutionize the venerable practice of mass spectrometry, in which ionized molecules are identified by their weight.
Roman Catholicism has undergone enormous changes since the early 1960's when the Second Vatican Council authorized major changes in rituals and a recasting of venerable practices and teachings.
While not dispensing with venerable practices like etching and engraving, he sets no limits on technical possibilities, fooling around with contemporary techniques from silk-screening to computer manipulation of digital images.
Harmless and venerable these practices might seem to be, but the government calls the sect subversive, alleging that it advocates such disturbing ideas as "global doomsday" and "earth explosion," inducing some followers to insanity and suicide.
The process is largely based on interpersonal relationships, venerable farming practices and a desire to produce artisanal-grade coffee.
Superhero team-building is a venerable comic-book practice, one that flourished in the '60s and '70s — with the Avengers, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four — more or less contemporaneously with the first voyages of the Starship Enterprise.
