However, despite the occurrence of vampire-like creatures in these ancient civilizations, the folklore for the entity we know today as the vampire originates almost exclusively from early-18th-century southeastern Europe, when verbal traditions of many ethnic groups of the region were recorded and published.
"It's an old-school online community... and it has a tradition of verbal fighting and verbal debate.
If he's a throwback, it's to the tradition of verbal play that runs through northern comedy, from Dawson and Dodd to Evans, Randle and Wilton.
I wish Dodd had taken the cruelty theory further and examined the rich American tradition of verbal insult (an inevitable by-product of a society that puts a high premium on gregarious affability).
Kitaj read as much as he painted, and his growing awareness of the Jewish tradition of verbal exegesis and the desire to explain what his paintings were doing and saying led him to append texts.
This tradition is indelibly verbal, regionally and socially specific, and tilted to the comic.
Normally, the occasion, with its sense of circumstance, is a good fit for brassy graphic flourishes and proud verbal gestures that celebrate democratic tradition.
Stephen Sondheim, without question; the lyricist who single-handedly deepened the American song tradition with penetrating verbal invention and an enlivening dose of psychological complexity.
The cognitive criteria whose various definitions are one by one examined are perception (pratyakṣa), inference (anumāna), presumption (arthāpatti), reasoning based on analogy (upamāna), negative proof based on absence (abhāva), equivalence (sambhāva), tradition (aitihya), and verbal or scriptural testimony (śabda, āgama).
In creating the work, Mr. Harris has recognized the links between Shakespeare's virtuosic verbal play and the spoken traditions of African-American music.
