Please. after confab this weekend pondering black/blackfoot history. also: traditionalism is hard. From Wordnik.com. [oh, wow. free verse dinocorns.] Reference
But to the extent that its insular traditionalism is its weakness, it can make for a very undemocratic political and social conversation. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » The Military’s Reach] Reference
Leaders like these rely on traditionalism, meaning that they claim their authority derived from a religious text. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico: A Theocratic Model for Republicans] Reference
It's a rediscovery of the kind of traditionalism espoused by Russell Kirk and Richard Weaver and others in the 1940s and 1950s. From Wordnik.com. [Crunchy Cons & Christian Agrarians] Reference
Mind you, I don't believe the alternative is "traditionalism," as that ideology is currently espoused in some Catholic circles. From Wordnik.com. [The irrelevance of relevance] Reference
This is doubly true when traditionalism which is combined with legalism. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
This tendency to the system known as "traditionalism" soon drew the attention of the ecclesiastical authorities. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
Most important for the subject at hand are the levels in the chart represented as stage 3 & 4: "traditionalism" and "modernism.". From Wordnik.com. [TPMCafe] Reference
MLB is frequently criticized for its "traditionalism," yet it has had numerous eras and sweeping changes that have modified it throughout its history. From Wordnik.com. [Kuklas Korner] Reference
"One of them is a sort of picturesque traditionalism which is epitomized by Zeffirelli. From Wordnik.com. [Please Don't Call Him a Polymath] Reference
"traditionalism" went along with many owners 'philosophies, and I felt that was keeping the everyman from enjoying wine to the fullest. From Wordnik.com. [Fermentation: The Daily Wine Blog] Reference
An easy-going traditionalism can be overturned in a single blast. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
This all sounds goofy, but Masters fan take this unique sort of traditionalism very seriously, indeed. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew DeBord: Rules of Golf: What You Need to Know Before You Watch the Masters with the Golf Lover in Your Life] Reference
But Bree's new contractor makes for an interesting palate cleanser after Orson's starchy traditionalism. From Wordnik.com. [Mega Buzz: Fringe's Body Double, NCIS: LA's Mystery and House's Budding Romance] Reference
"It's also a kind of change of discourse, because traditionalism requires one to be very literalist," he said. From Wordnik.com. [For many Muslims, start of Ramadan stirs up centuries-old debate between science and doctrine] Reference
We can take refuge not in tradition (which is a good thing), but in an artificial traditionalism (which isn't). From Wordnik.com. [Faith, hope and charity in tomorrow's world] Reference
Still more valuable perhaps is the intuitiveness of rare great minds, their traditionalism and their inherited qualities. From Wordnik.com. [Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado] Reference
When subsistence takes priority, rebellion occurs if it is threatened, and revolts are defensive, rooted in traditionalism. From Wordnik.com. [Cambodia: Revisiting the Killing Fields] Reference
Foucault writes about Barbin as an example of a human being caught in the transition from medieval traditionalism to modernism. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Debold: Caster Semenya: When Gender Is Not Sex] Reference
In that cranky diatribe against cultural permissiveness, Bloom emerged as the conservative movement's poster boy for traditionalism. From Wordnik.com. [Odd Outing] Reference
The choice before us is between a 'post-rational' traditionalism, fundamentally sceptical, pragmatistic, and intellectually dishonest, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
While claiming to be asserting traditionalism, the current monarchy was actually no different to many other despotic governments in Africa. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
In one sense it is a struggle against the traditionalism of later ages, but in no sense can it be said that the Wahhábís reject Tradition. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
They've dug their heels in over gender and sexuality, and while it's probably the last gasp of a fading traditionalism, it's still the ruling voice. From Wordnik.com. [trinityboy Diary Entry] Reference
Farmers follow a given practice not because of traditionalism, but because they see it as the best method in the face of their own particular situation. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
Anti-traditionalism is a paradox that lies behind the Settlement movement and allows it to become a part of the larger project of an anti-Jewish Zionism. From Wordnik.com. [David Shasha: What Israel Means to Me] Reference
At the same time traditionalism simply reflected the natural inclination of any large, inbred bureaucracy to preserve the privileges and order of an earlier time. From Wordnik.com. [Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965] Reference
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