Sentence examples for vernacular expressions from inspiring English sources
In that "Tosca" recording, for example, Edmund Tracey's translation uses vernacular expressions to great effect.
The crowds in Tahrir Square reserved much of their creative energy for vernacular expressions of protest.
His writings are notable for their use of proverbs and the occasional introduction of vernacular expressions.
Each painting lists the synonyms of an intensely fraught word whose centrality to human experience has spawned a pungent array of vernacular expressions, vulgarities and epithets.
Tuhao is unique among the vernacular expressions used to describe China's new rich for its biting emphasis on the uncouth ways of country folk.
Sharing an Amtrak car recently with four chatty debutantes on their way to a cotillion in Boston, powerless not to eavesdrop, I started cataloging all the vernacular expressions they emphatically overused, transcribing the choicest dialogue to Facebook.
The sale also has vintage prints by Walker Evans, who is considered the father of American vernacular expression.
This gesture, which produces a very small click, is typically accompanied by the vernacular expression, "You are not worth anything to me".
The problem is different: by becoming the vernacular expression of every kind of individual aspiration and desire, and a dominant language of public policy, they have lost their significance and edge.
They carried with them elements of traditional folk that have been a part of popular music ever since: a devotion to authenticity (or an approximation thereof), an inclination to leftist politics (or a vague liberalism), and, above all, a faith in the folk ethic -- the notion that music is a democratic, amateur art, a mode of vernacular expression available to anyone without formal training.
(Rosenberg) ★ El Museo del Barrio: 'Testimonios: 100 Years of Popular Expression' (through May 6) The city's premier museum of Latin culture explores its holdings in urban folk art, so-called handicraft and other forms of vernacular expression and comes up with visual gold.
