Sentence examples for vernacular idiom from inspiring English sources

New Testament Greek, for example, is a representative of Hellenistic Greek written in the 1st century ad, ranging from the literary Hellenistic of Hebrews, 1 Peter, and portions of Luke Acts to the colloquial or vernacular idiom of some other books (e.g., the conversations in the Gospels).

It was like attending a music school, learning and broadening: formal music, especially the synthesis of the American vernacular idiom with a more classical orientation, so much sought-after in the 1920s, were calling out to him.

The music is kinetic, vividly scored and steeped in American vernacular idioms; the storytelling is urgent.

Like the Beatles — his nearest equivalent in another field — Warhol invested vernacular idioms with a timeless eloquence.

You could hardly have wished for a livelier performance or for a better leader than Ms. Alsop, the rare symphonic conductor entirely at ease in vernacular idioms.

The Narrator's half-conscious knowledge that there are rules out there that you've got to respect leads him to overcompensate by respecting the wrong rules; that is, using formal diction where there ought to be vernacular idioms and vernacular idioms where there ought to be formal diction.

Among American composers, Mr. Bolcom is perhaps the leader in the assimilation of vernacular idioms into serious music; he somehow manages to do this without undercutting the rigor of his writing or patronizing his vernacular inspirations.

It would be easy to say his ballets became more classical, less concerned with vernacular idioms after he left Ballet Theater and joined City Ballet, where Balanchine made him associate artistic director in 1949.

Pursuing Justice in Africa focuses on the many actors pursuing many visions of justice across the African continent-their aspirations, divergent practices, and articulations of international and vernacular idioms of justice.

The project, funded by the Arcadia Fund, will collaborate with scholarly institutions in Bhutan – in particular the National Library of Bhutan – and aims to complete an expansive survey of Bhutan's various languages, oral histories, family genealogies, folk stories and songs, vernacular idioms, and other genres.

Progress to speaking Greek as you find help in the common idiom and vernacular.