Sentence examples for western vernacular from inspiring English sources

"I started thinking, 'Could a Bollywood-like movie work in a Western vernacular?' " Mr. Luhrmann said.

From being an outgrowth of the historical situation of one people in one place and time, it has developed into the emotional conscience of the entire continuum of Western vernacular musical styles.

In "Gunman's Rhapsody" he has a terrific ready-made story in the events that led to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral and its bloody aftermath of revenge, and he creates a spare Western vernacular that gets to the truth in a hurry.

He collected and copied woodblock prints and welcomed Utagawa Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai into the western vernacular.

"Prosecuting this guy is like prosecuting the piano player in a whorehouse," said Bill Rosch, Boyle's attorney, in rich old-Western vernacular.

Yaodong is one representative of western China vernacular dwellings.

President Bush sought "justice" and was fond of using Western-film vernacular to describe the hunt for "who did it".

The framework accommodates "non-Western, oral and vernacular understandings" (Wisner et al. 2012, p. 28).

Xu Zhimo, Wade-Giles romanization Hsü Chih-mo, original name Xu Zhangxu, courtesy names (zi) Yousen and (later) Zhimo (born January 15 , 1897 Xiashi, Zhejiang province, China died November 19 , 1931 Tai'an, Shandong province) Chinese poet who strove to loosen Chinese poetry from its traditional forms and to reshape it under the influences of Western poetry and the vernacular Chinese language.

An important figure among the "New Tonalists," he has established his own language as a synthesis of Western tradition and American vernacular.

The Latin and vernacular handwriting of western Europe descends in a nearly unbroken line to the present day from the 1st century ad.