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But now and then the crisscross rails or straight palings break into view, and then we know a touch of culture is near.

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 Meanings and Examples of CULTURAL
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cultural
 a.  relating to the habits, traditions, and beliefs of a society
Classic Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1  was given the task of showing him some of its cultural sights.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Nine In the Cathedral
2  Below, near the pavilion, was standing an adjutant-general of whom Alexey Alexandrovitch had a high opinion, noted for his intelligence and culture.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 28
3  Konstantin Levin regarded his brother as a man of immense intellect and culture, as generous in the highest sense of the word, and possessed of a special faculty for working for the public good.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
4  But he could not say "a fool," because Sviazhsky was unmistakably clever, and moreover, a highly cultivated man, who was exceptionally modest over his culture.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 26
5  Let us try to look upon the labor force not as an abstract force, but as the Russian peasant with his instincts, and we shall arrange our system of culture in accordance with that.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 28
6  The whole system of culture, the chief element in the condition of the people, must be completely transformed.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 30
7  "I am not expressing my own opinion of either form of culture," Sergey Ivanovitch said, holding out his glass with a smile of condescension, as to a child.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 10
8  "That will come," was the consoling reassurance given him by Golenishtchev, in whose view Vronsky had both talent, and what was most important, culture, giving him a wider outlook on art.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 13
9  The colonel too talked of the opera, and about culture.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 6
10  Here people understood that a man is in duty bound to live for himself, as every man of culture should live.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 20
11  This, then, is the end of his striving: to be a co-worker in the kingdom of culture, to escape both death and isolation, to husband and use his best powers and his latent genius.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In I
12  Men call the shadow prejudice, and learnedly explain it as the natural defence of culture against barbarism, learning against ignorance, purity against crime, the "higher" against the "lower" races.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In I
13  It not only called the school-mistresses through the benevolent agencies and built them schoolhouses, but it helped discover and support such apostles of human culture as Edmund Ware, Samuel Armstrong, and Erastus Cravath.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
14  But now and then the crisscross rails or straight palings break into view, and then we know a touch of culture is near.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
15  This was an added advantage, for the reason that I found the white people possessing a degree of culture and education that is not surpassed by many localities.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  Beijing is the political, economic and cultural centre of China.
17  Our party believes in encouraging cultural diversity, not diversion.
18  Many unearthed cultural relics are set forth in the exhibition hall.
19  His search for his cultural identity took him to where his parents were born.
20  The commission has no formal competence in cultural matters.
21  The tourist industry requires that the country's cultural assets be made more accessible.
22  The best films are those which transcend national or cultural barriers.
23  It is important to look at the political and cultural context in which the novel was written.
24  The city offers an appealing combination of sporting and cultural events.
25  We are doing this work in the context of reforms in the economic, social and cultural spheres.
26  The theatre and cinema closed and the town became a cultural desert.
27  Small towns in South India serve as economic and cultural centres for the surrounding villages.
28  He regarded the north of the country as a separate cultural entity.
29  Our responsibility is to level up the standard of the people's material and cultural life.
30  In the later Middle Ages, Prague was an important cultural centre.