Sentence examples for vivid traditions from inspiring English sources

"Rural renewal" is a far less common term than its urban counterpart, but the problem is just as pressing, and in many ways similar: a community with vivid traditions and a struggling population gets hit by a disaster — economic, natural, political or all three — and has to decide how to recreate itself without becoming soulless and bland.

The company performed African, folk, social and African-American dance, offering a rare view of American vernacular dance forms whose vivid traditions are suggested by the names of steps that Mr. Bethel performed or perfected, among them the fishtail itch and tranky-doo.

We found that a vivid tradition of mobility allowing for pluriactivity on- and off-farm, combined with community self-governance, explains how local populations succeeded in articulating individual agency with collective control over their commons of land, seed resources, and social rules.

This may be the last moment to record and celebrate what is one of the country's most idiosyncratic and vivid living art traditions.

All of which accounts for the sentimental importance I attach to that vivid Press Night tradition in the National's dressing rooms.

Born in 1981, conductor Jakub Hrusa attempts to shake off historical baggage here, peeling back the "vivid pastel" of tradition and adjusting tempi he believes Smetana himself might have changed had he not been deaf.

This vivid sense of tradition contrasts with the historical amnesia of postmodern culture, for which everything that happened up to 10 minutes ago is to be junked as antique.

Ansky had conducted serious ethnographic expeditions, and his play combines Hasidic folk traditions with vivid character portrayals, bringing together folkloristic motifs in particular, possession by a disembodied spirit and psychological depth.

I loved Sufiya's depiction of Pakistan – its culture and traditions – and the vivid characters.

I'll never forget the first time I crossed our American national border and what an eye-opening experience it was: a trip through Mexico and into Central America, with revelations of vivid new people, languages, and traditions that lay beyond the confines of this young traveler's own small tribe.

Vivid words create more vivid pictures.