Sentences with phrase «local vernacular»

And if you speak in the same local vernacular as your client, you may be perceived as patronizing or even insulting.

I was merely following that old and trusted sage advise of when in Rome, try conversing in the local vernacular.

By exploring the shapes and variations of local vernacular adobe buildings, a dialogue was facilitated around what looked and felt best.

Stories are a starting point for all of Taus Makhacheva's works and they are told in local vernacular: ordinary people, everyday objects, works of applied decorative arts, landscape, traditions, family lore and institutional archives.

Ross is a skilled raconteur and proficient in the local vernacular of the Los Angeles region.

The films draw uponarchitecture's relationship to its natural environment, its integration into urban systems and juxtapositions with the local vernacular.

Pera also cites Winslow's novel as an example of how linguistic differences between Spain and Latin America rendered the book's translation, carried out in Spain, deficient, by not reflecting the local vernacular.

In an early scene his grandmother catches his character perfectly when she calls him a «mardy arse», local vernacular for his being moodily withdrawn (it was a nickname that Lawrence was called at school).

«Ethnological data collection such as ours, including the collection of terms in the local vernacular, can open new avenues of research about variations in ecology, fauna and flora,» they conclude.

(Also, obviously, almost all of the yelling occurs in the local vernacular language and not in British English).

Will AIDS — referred to as «snatch and bury» in the local vernacular — make another victim of her?

Not exact matches

Thus it was that, confronted with the bewildering fact of Western intrusion, local populations used the vernacular to avert ultimate disenchantment, in this way utilizing the gains of mission to offset the losses to colonialism.

Local believers acquired a new interest not only in the vernacular but also in recording their history and collecting accounts of indigenous wisdom.

When the preacher comes really to believe in the incarnation, that God comes to us in the ordinary, that God's word comes in the usual patterns of the vernacular, he will trust that God can use the local idiom.

To incarnate the reign of God means to take on local flesh, to speak the vernacular, to dive deep into the cultural particularities of a time and place.

The paintings superimpose suggestive text written by Ellis and set in Los Angeles inspired fonts over stock - photographic images selected and purchased online by Israel: sunsets, surf, aerial views of Los Angeles, and close - up details highlighting local architectural vernacular.

While stylistic references include turn - of - the - century Nordic figurative painting, folk art, and local or contemporary vernacular, her evocative use of pictorial space and her juxtapositions of thick paint and textured washes is uniquely her own.

Many of the participants in Lives were younger conceptual artists engaged in the openly aesthetic practice of vernacular sociology, behavioral psychology, and local ethnography.

Valentin Carron looked to his native Swiss valley, where he employs local artisans to produce his vases made of unrefined concrete, and finds inspiration through the vernacular shapes one finds in its public spaces.

While stylistic references include turn of - the - century Nordic figurative painting, folk art, and local or contemporary vernacular, her evocative use of pictorial space and her juxtapositions of thick paint and textured washes is uniquely her own.

Valentin Carron looks to his native Swiss valley, where he collaborates with local artisans to produce works like these vases made of unrefined concrete, and finds inspiration in the vernacular shapes one finds in public spaces.

The striking composition was inspired by local metalworkers working on drain gutters, and resonates with Dakar's vernacular architecture of wrought iron window bars and doors.

ENGLAND IN PARTICULAR: A CELEBRATION OF THE COMMONPLACE, THE LOCAL, THE VERNACULAR AND THE DISTINCTIVE, Hodder & Stoughton, London, England.

Drawing on the vernacular of local subcultures, from recent immigrant communities to the downtown fashion scene itself, the label's collections can be seen as a self - consciously critical examination of social codes and their expression through industrial nexuses of power and money.

Drawing inspiration from such sources as local architecture, amateur photographs, and state fair banners, their work runs the aesthetic spectrum from sleek to handcrafted, underscoring the diverse manifestations of the vernacular within our lived environment and its impact on artists working today.

Peltomäki's research project seeks to understand how these notions of experientiality related to local context, and to analyse how models of experientiality and individuation were configured into both canonical and vernacular art criticism.

The vernacular wood frame of his Church at Head Tide (1938) exemplifies this concentration upon local forms: the black outlines surrounding the structure — increasingly prevalent in Hartley's work after the early 1930s — metaphorize this inward turning.

Influenced by the folk aesthetics and history of her surroundings, Norton's work employs music, video, mixed media, and performance as her country - music alter ego Ninnie, in a manner that combines feminist thought with local and vernacular imagery inspired by the cultural traditions of the rural South and specifically of her native Kentucky.

By using the developers» vernacular of branded motifs distilled from iconic local sites, sharper - than - life computer - generated geometry and uniform symmetry, Darbyshire & rsrsquo; s installation riffs on this architectural vocabulary and the various generic yet indecipherable uses it implies.

Through the push and pull of cross cultural collaboration the group has balanced traditional cultural practice in the Caribbean and forward - looking design solutions; developing new methods and new vernacular that respects and elevates local traditions.

Today, traditional languages are so far removed from their vernacular that singing in English has become the mainstay, the local languages have become the foreign tongue.

The architects for this Charlottesville Idea House were Rosney Dixon a local firm who created the house to reflect the hunt country's vernacular style.