His knowledge of American idioms and folkways is perfect. From Wordnik.com. [The Crystal Frontier by Carlos Fuentes] Reference
Perhaps "folkways" is not less unfamiliar, but its meaning is more obvious. From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
For definitions of "folkways" and "mores" see secs. 1, 2, 34, 39, 43, and 66. From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
I formed the word "folkways" on the analogy of words already in use in sociology. From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
Thus whenever two groups are brought into contact and contagion, there is, by syncretism, a selection of the folkways which is destructive to some of them. From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
+ The folkways are the. From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
The folkways are their ways. From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
The folkways are a societal force. From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
From Jim Emmett he learned Mormon culture and folkways. From Wordnik.com. [Zane Grey, Romancing the West]
Gingerly, she felt her way into the foreign folkways of NEWSWEEK. From Wordnik.com. [The Kay We Loved] Reference
As a guest in this country, I try to accept the folkways without question. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Diel: And Nice to Meet You, too] Reference
It indeed a perfect handicraft for indoor decoration with its rich chinese folkways. From Wordnik.com. [Fenshui paper Umbrella] Reference
Mr. Hildebrand cheerfully confesses confusion with the folkways of South Carolinians. From Wordnik.com. [In South, Democrats' Tactics] Reference
His disdain for the city's political folkways became her own and contributed to their downfall. From Wordnik.com. [Michelle Rhee leaves, and the DCPS 'churn' continues] Reference
His disdain for the city's political folkways became her own -- and became the downfall of both. From Wordnik.com. [DeMorning DeBonis: Oct. 13, 2010] Reference
So, learning the habits and folkways and customs of the people you're dealing with is a good idea. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 28, 2003] Reference
The new version of capitalism retains many aspects of traditional Chinese values, mores and folkways. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Chinese Capitalism:US Communism] Reference
Their lives went on peacefully, industriously, with old folkways respected-by the commoners and the kzinti. From Wordnik.com. [Inconstant Star]
I know that the folkways, the subtleties of a city cannot be entered in a ledger or parsed like a sentence. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
Now as then, the Vatican correspondent is a travel writer of sorts, explaining the local customs and folkways. From Wordnik.com. [In Search of a Pope] Reference
Of all the folkways in Wun Ngo Wen's Five Republics, this was the one that had most fascinated the terrestrial public. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
In a gift shop, I found an amazing book on regional folkways that was chocked full of the kind of detail writers salivate over. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Road Trips] Reference
Mr. Lever puts on a dazzling performance, using his wild conceit to give us an incisive, hilarious study of Hollywood folkways. From Wordnik.com. [Second Banana Tells All] Reference
There's a shared a set of folkways and beliefs around the subject of Social Security that DC outsiders can't understand or penetrate. From Wordnik.com. [Richard (RJ) Eskow: Ben Bernanke Wants Your Social Security Money] Reference
You know, you can get real wrapped up in high school and in the bizarre folkways and systems of rewards and punishments in high school. From Wordnik.com. [Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004] Reference
Eventually, each wave of immigrants since the 1850s has usually picked up and followed the dominant folkways of the region they settled. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » O’Reilly on the Power Structure] Reference
I love the idea that all our thoughts, references, folkways go into a rich stew of imagination ready to be tasted and basted on the page. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » A Fine Kettle of Fish] Reference
American family is a product of European folkways, of the economic transition to modern capitalism, and of the distinctive environment of. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
That seventeenth-century un-scientist has more feeling for folkways in his calloused left hand than you'd find in all the Colonial Survey. From Wordnik.com. [Blind Man's Lantern] Reference
In their folkways, in their social and political institutions, they were, like every colonial people, slavishly imitative of the mother country. From Wordnik.com. [Trans-national America] Reference
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