The warm, supple performances capture both the individuality and the shared roots of contemporaneous works by three early-20th-century masters.

But despite these differences, the stories they told were almost identical, hinting at their shared roots.

The shared linguistic root of these two words is probably not accidental.

What linked most of the productions I saw was not their shared roots in some hypothetical 20th-century soil, but their ultimate banality.

We also discovered the richness and variety of our backgrounds and a growing understanding of our shared roots.

An ethnic group is normally defined by having a degree of cultural and linguistic similarity and often an ideology of shared roots.

Despite shared roots, music took disparate paths in West Africa and the Americas.

Nouns are generally related to verbs (by shared roots), but their formation is not as systematic, often due to loanwords from foreign languages.

Visiting shared historical roots, as the audience joins his journey, might be a first step, Mr. Feiler said.

I am glad because it refers back to a shared root, from which sprang the cultural and linguistic diversity of the European Union.