Sentence examples for western tendency from inspiring English sources

However, practitioners of traditional religions might take issue with the Western tendency toward individual exploration in this area.

Perhaps sensing our peculiarly western tendency to get sucked into conceptual circles, many Buddhist teachers now emphasise practices that aim to reconnect us to our bodies.

In conversation, Mr. Ting touched on another point: the wide varieties of Asian identity, and the general western tendency to lump all Asians into a single category.

And Chinese authors are reluctant to surrender to the Western tendency to pigeonhole them as either collaborators or dissidents, categories that fail to reflect the more nuanced reality of writing in today's China.

At the same time, this emphasis goes against the Western tendency to appreciate Japanese culture primarily for its elevation of more lowly forms -- like ceramics, lacquer and textiles -- to the level of high art while limiting its two-dimensional achievement to well-known accomplishments like woodblock prints and screens.

When Hindus speak of their religious identity as sanatana dharma, they emphasize its continuous, seemingly eternal (sanatana) existence and the fact that it describes a web of customs, obligations, traditions, and ideals (dharma) that far exceeds the Western tendency to think of religion primarily as a system of beliefs.

Moreover, Russia was concerned that the Liberals were starting to follow the same pro-Western tendencies as the Conservatives.

Another reason may be that the revival of Confucianism is thought to be associated with the revival of Islamic "fundamentalism" and its anti-Western tendencies.

The more conservative and anti-Western tendencies of the aristocrats, and their links to the staunchly Orthodox and anti-Catholic monasteries, also explain their increased attachment to the mystical Hesychasm movement advocated by Gregory Palamas, whose views were mostly opposed in the cities.

For the privileged Westerner, this tendency is reinforced by the protection of comfortable lifestyles far from the ravages that those on the front lines are living with right now.

Other factors were her idiosyncratic interpretation of the history of Western philosophy, her tendency to rely, even in her nonfiction works, on broad ad hominem attacks, and her general unwillingness to tolerate disagreement with her views among those with whom she associated.