Sentences with phrase «folks memory»

I suspect the Lib Dems are in quite a good place, having a strong folk memory of being in such a position and knowing how to fight their way through it.

This work harnesses collective folk memory in an appeal for unity and resistance to political violence.

But perhaps this recoil is little more than the lingering effect of a moral folk memory, for we blithely allow anonymous representatives of government agencies to do the same.

According to folk memory, particularly in Europe, dwarves were cunning artificers, while elves liked dance and revelry.

Folk memory — or speculative fantasy — is full of heroes, often divinely mandated, who cleared away the monsters, both the merely brutal and the mildly mischievous, and who laid the foundations of a peaceable rural landscape as well as of stone cities.

The cultural ties and folk memory that bound their grandparents to the Church do not bind them.

Coupled with the folk memories of local people a book will accompany an exhibition at the National Maritime Museum — Gillian Hutchinson Sir John Franklin's Erebus and Terror Expedition (Adlard Coles).

The Lib Dem leader puts that down to «folk memory» of the way in which the Tories went about it in the 1980s.