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“Its main ambition was to liberate individuals from the arbitrary authority of place, family, and folkway, and to permit them a life of material success amid an economic system that generated an endless bazaar of values ...”
“Backdating was evidently a Silicon Valley folkway.”
“The same is true of any folkway so long as it is not yet doubted.”
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
“And thence to the tangled thicket where the folkway cleaves it through,”
“It is an entrenched North American folkway that kites should fly in March.”
“Fry does beat him, once, then decides this is one folkway she cannot accept.”
“This sort of diversity makes it rather peculiar to speak of a Mid-Atlantic cultural folkway in which Germans, Dutch, Quakers, Roman Catholics, Swedes and Long Island Yankees can be thrown together into one pot.”
“When You are indulging in the common customs and folkway of song dynasty, then in a sudden you have been led into a delicately arranged performance: look, isn't the pock-faced Bao zheng walking slowly from the road?”
“While breaking a folkway is likely to turn heads of passersby, breaking a more will offend observers and possibly bring punishment.”
“No, that transcript is not excerpted from secret Oval Office tapes; it’s an exchange between the cheerfully sexist, jingoistic, folkway-challenged and generally clueless French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath alias OSS 117 and his Egyptian liaison, the lovely Larmina El Akmar Betouche.”
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