"cultural" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "I was the last one picked in gym class" has become cultural shorthand for how PE can lower self-esteem.
- Polo players on horseback, giant swishes and geometric medallions are elements in a cultural shorthand: invoked in novels, placed in movies, inscribed on clothing.
- Hedge funds have become the new cultural shorthand for fast money.
- Images of fire escapes have long been used to depict inner-city life, a cultural shorthand for cramped apartments and blistering summers.
- The term "Kallikak" became, along with "Jukes" and "Nams" (other case studies of similar natures), a cultural shorthand for the rural poor in the South and Northeast United States.
- It's a brand, but it's also cultural shorthand, like BMW or Mercedes-Benz.
- It is a brand, of course, but it is also cultural shorthand, like BMW or Mercedes-Benz.
- Names like Cézanne, Flaubert, Mayakovsky and Montesquieu are sprinkled throughout, in a kind of cultural shorthand, as if their very names opened intellectual vistas.
- This is a cultural shorthand taken from the passage of the now-lost Classic of Burial recorded in Guo Pu's commentary:
- Though Berkeley still qualifies for many as cultural shorthand for hippie holdovers, it is Oakland, after all, where California's former Governor Moonbeam, Jerry Brown, is the activist mayor.
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