Sentences with phrase «vital tradition»

This once vital tradition was more effective when Protestant values were more dominant in American culture than they are now.

To him the far more likely situation was that abstraction was still in an early phase, that its future could hardly be imagined, that its potential might not be realized for decades to come.7 Varnedoe reinforced this view when he wrote, «Abstract art has been with us in one form or another for almost a century now, and has proved to be not only a long - standing crux of cultural debate, but a self - renewing, vital tradition of creativity.»

This country has a long and vital tradition of religious freedom that protects personal beliefs without allowing the imposition of harms on others.

And others are working to improve on a vital tradition, assessing the most effective ways to protect scientists from political persecution.

But the children of the economic miracle must hold on to one vital tradition

Raised with a «rich oral tradition of cultural and familial folklore,» among «voracious readers and proficient storytellers,» Téa Obreht knew at eight years old that she intended to carry on that vital tradition.

The Studio Museum has also presented black abstract artists as a vital tradition, as well as black conceptual art.

Little's color revitalizes a vital tradition in painting — that of Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, and Ellsworth Kelly.

This helped maintain the AAA's vital tradition.