Sentence examples for western manner from inspiring English sources

Would we have gotten married if we had met in the conventional Western manner and dated each other?

That book tells how Mr. Say's mother moved to Japan from the United States as a child but resolutely drank her tea in the Western manner.

Oceanic visual art, then, although rarely baldly pictorial in a Western manner, is replete with references to both religious and social values.

First up, "Rethinking Sitting," by the Scandinavian designer Peter Opsvik, which is either a serious account of whether "the established standard of the chair, based on the accepted western manner of sitting" is the best one, or a headscratcher.

But perhaps because of an embarrassingly boisterous style, he never received the respect and affection in the West accorded Mr. Gorbachev, who was loved for his Western manner and his willingness to end the cold war's nuclear standoff.

Throughout, he seeks to make readers aware of "the dilemma of the modern age: the Western manner of fighting bequeathed to us from the Greeks and enhanced by Alexander is so destructive and so lethal that we have essentially reached an impasse.

That Mr Kukes, a Soviet-era émigré, had an American passport and western manners counted for nothing.

"There is a difference between 'old' and 'old-fashioned.' These days in the bridal course, we teach Western and Chinese cooking, and Western manners as well, to align with the globalized society we live in".

And it is due to another import – bourgeois western manners – that another of Alexander's girlfriends, Melitta, visiting the Umnitzer home on Christmas Day, 1976, insists on taking her shoes off, a custom that his mother considers "petty and provincial".

Below stairs, meanwhile, Brenden Gunnell's Pedrillo and Mari Eriksmoen's spirited Blonde are busy imposing western manners on Tobias Kehrer's firebrand Osmin: when we see Blonde forcing him into a preposterously beribboned frock-coat, the reasons for his resentment become all too clear.

Our colleague Rod Nordland writes that a multilayered misunderstanding at a news briefing in Afghanistan on Thursday laid bare just how wide the cultural gulf still is between Afghan and foreign troops — so wide, even now, that Western manners are what often spark bloody conflict.