Welshness

Examples

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• The celebration of Welshness was palpable during the annual cultural festival.

• For all his pride in his own Welshness, however, Morris's national identity remains resolutely British.

  Academic text (2016)

• Though his explanation of his message has several markers of "Welshness," it is nevertheless much more readily understood than much of the dialogue in the story.

  Academic text (1996)

• Morris's Welshness is thus permeable or agglomerative: he can remain Welsh while cherry-picking other national traditions with which he can identify.

  Academic text (2016)

• Evans's style is so striking that virtually all critics of his work refer to it, but surprisingly few have made a systematic study of how that style translates Welshness for English readers.

  Academic text (1996)

• Welshness, at least as it is traditionally understood by Guenwyn's soldiers, will be compromised if Guenwyn marries Eveline.

  Academic text (2016)

• In The Betrothed, Scott models Welshness as a fragile but dangerous national identity that resists simple imperialistic appropriation due to its conscious dependence upon a collective counter-historical cultural performance.

  Academic text (2016)

• It remains possible, of course, that this "cherry-picking" is itself a defense mechanism or a coping strategy that Morris, as a member of a historically subjugated culture, finds himself compelled to espouse as a condition of taking pride in his Welshness at all.

  Academic text (2016)

• The Welsh, if they adopt Cadwallon's maxim (and they do: their invasion of Norman-held lands begins immediately after he finishes his song), seem to recognize that the continued survival of Welshness depends upon their collective denial of the very history that has made them what they are.

  Academic text (2016)

• Despite his pride in his Welshness, Morris deploys the phrase "our own" to demonstrate his investment in the Anglican Church as well as in Cambridge and Oxford, those early nineteenth-century bastions of Tory (and arch-English) culture and politics.

  Academic text (2016)

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Etymology