Sentence examples for vernacular sources from inspiring English sources

But employing vernacular sources begins to seem like an easy way to give his songs an American jolt.

A slick and inventive designer, Mr. McGinness has developed an expansive vocabulary of eccentric, vaguely familiar symbols drawn from art historical and modern vernacular sources.

Thomson lived to see the day when an emerging generation of postmodern composers saw him as a prophet before his time, who had made straight the paths for a return to simplicity, accessibility and the use of vernacular sources.

After the war, Hill, together with the likes of Eric Hobsbawm and Victor Kiernan, was a central figure in the Communist Party Historians Group, which was determined to abandon the history of "great men" for a more socially attuned, finely grained discipline drawing on lost voices and vernacular sources.

Admittedly bigger than either any of its 16th century vernacular sources or fin de Siècle models designed by Lutyens, George & Peto and their contemporaries, certainly there was nothing ominous about this Arts and Crafts style extravaganza--like ten manor houses and five cottages put together to form a substantial domestic bastion.

These rituals are unique in the medieval material first because they clearly rely on verses and acts drawn from local vernacular sources and second, because in no other medieval performative rituals are the voice and actions of an individual woman who will be performing these rituals so clearly represented.

Salsburg writes that Smith's songs, "drawn from both vernacular and personal sources, and thick with the cast and the argot of the penitentiary … form an epic of the Southern prison-farm experience".

But today the payment type is almost a pointer — in computer science vernacular — to a source of money.

But Found Muji goes back to the source, showcasing traditional, vernacular and often handmade housewares and decorative objects that have inspired a multitude of Muji products, like metal bowls used for curry in India, Celadon pottery from Thailand, enamelware from France or feather dusters from Germany.

Today with the limited energy resources, vernacular architecture presents an essential source of architectural knowledge in respond to climate and culture without reliance on energy-guzzling active systems.

Extensive availability of the Qur'an and Sunnah, the fundamental sources of Islamic faith, in vernacular languages has released Islam from the Arabic language.