Sentence examples for vernacular before from inspiring English sources

Following this year's format, Elkins will discuss and illustrate his ideas about classicism and the vernacular before sending Desdemona to her tragic end with a backbeat.

'The priests of science must consent to use the vernacular before they will ever make a profound impression upon the heart of humanity.... Let them not fear the sneers of their deacons who will call their teaching sensational.'.

The last significant figure associated with the vernacular Bible before the Norman Conquest was the so-called Aelfric the Grammarian (c. 955 1020).

Of these, the most significant is that Cædmon felt "shame" for his inability to sing vernacular songs before his vision, and the suggestion that Hilda's scribes copied down his verse æt muðe "from his mouth".

On sultry August afternoons in that era before vernacular prayers and air-conditioning, my friends and I used the sanctuary as a place to cool off and to play the confession game.

Still, it would be wrong, if tempting, to view China as some sort of time capsule of 1950s American suburbia, that age before the vernacular came to include "climate change" and "non-renewable resource".

"It soon entered the vernacular, appearing in advertisements before the end of the war, and as a clue in a 1950 crossword puzzle in this newspaper (46 across)." A quick Google search for "blockbuster movies" yields a list that's dominated by superhero films: "Iron Man," "Man of Steel," and movies from "The Avengers" series.

"It put 20th-century music into a vernacular I'd never heard before," he said.

Others, following his example, gave England a body of vernacular poetry unparalleled in Europe before the end of the 1st millennium.

On early tapes, he can be heard alternating between quasi-Ebonics ("Yo, we gon' leave the phone lines open, kid") and middle-class white vernacular ("That was very enjoyable"), before settling on a hybrid approach that sounded more natural: he occasionally used street slang, but deployed it with a hint of irony.

"Clean coal" surged into the public vernacular in October 2008, one month before Barack Obama was first elected president.