Sentences with phrase «anything against traditional»

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But most of the traditional songs are traditional for a reason: they're sturdy enough to stand up to almost anything the Yuletide pits against them — Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, or a grade - school Christmas recital, or even my own adventures in shower - singing.

So, when faced with the choice of wasting more time throwing queries against the traditional wall to see if anything sticks or focusing on building my own little publishing enterprise, it really was a no brainer.

Since the tides are moving against traditional bookstores, is there anything they can do to prevent their inevitable demise?

I don't have anything against those that do, or traditional publishing in general, but my current path took a different direction.

Throughout the 20th - century, as part of the modernist revolt against the use of traditional materials in fine art and the consequent desire to demonstrate that «art» can be made out of anything, artists have been creating sculpture, assemblage, combined paintings / sculptures and installations from an ever - widening range of unusual objects and materials.

Among the highlights will be the social practice artist Theaster Gates singing his own rendition of «God Bless America,» «The Battle Hymn of the Republic» and other traditional patriotic tunes; the filmmaker Arthur Jafa presenting his lauded short movie about racism, «Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death»; the artist Shirin Neshat showing films about violence against women; the composer David Lang performing and also speaking about «danger and honesty in both pop and classical music»; the poet Elizabeth Alexander reading her own work; and the artist Hank Willis Thomas presenting and discussing his film «A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else» (2014) on James Baldwin.

From mixing blue and green to playing against proportion, if you challenge the traditional diktats about colour, pattern, texture and you'll have a unique scheme that's individual, confident and anything but run of the mill.