Sentences with phrase «cultural predilections»

Their form is a matter of prevailing local technology, and they are being usurped in terms of our cultural predilections.

Sun Myung Moon's revelation calls forth real commitment, but commitment to a messiah without a cross who confirms us in our cultural predilections.

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When we first moved in together, my wife was mystified by the way my normally lofty cultural tastes metamorphosed every December into the predilections of a working - class Yugoslavian immigrant.

Predilections aside, there are cruises that thrill simply by putting passengers in the right place at the right time, whether it is a front - row seat at Sydney's New Year fireworks spectacular, access to a major sporting or one - off cultural event, or timing an itinerary to coincide with a spectacular natural phenomenon.

The success the collective garnered during the 1990s is best described by the social and cultural conditions of the times, which provided the ideal structural setting for a group of individuals who are able to rapidly adapt to the taste of the moment and the predilections of its audience.