"tradition" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They mark the sad end point of a genteel tradition that began with the Virginia gentry and the Boston Brahmins.
- Together, they mounted a direct challenge to the genteel tradition and cleared the ground for a freer literary flowering of the 1920's.
- As a literary critic he was already beginning an effective assault on the genteel tradition in American literature.
- Even in the genteel traditions of such hearings, today was exceptionally considerate.
- Cricket has a genteel tradition and decorum.
- All these things are essential for understanding what the genteel tradition is and why it is a tragedy.
- The characters in "The Last Puritan" embody elements of the genteel tradition.
- Mario is an example of what life without the genteel tradition is like.
- Oliver, on the other hand, most exemplifies the tragedy of the genteel tradition through his Puritanism developed fully to its tragic, self-destructive end.
- Edmund Wilson wrote that Mencken "put his foot through the genteel tradition."
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