Sentence examples for * the bequeathed from inspiring English sources

In addition to the bequeathed "masterpiece," the exhibition includes the Met's five other Vermeers as well as several Dutch works from its permanent collection.

His son, Tahir Mohammad, now carries the burden of the bequeathed litigation.

From 1926 the Corcoran also housed the bequeathed collection of Senator William A. Clark, which was noted for its French and Dutch paintings and its decorative arts.

A will may be considered invalid if, among other instances, the testator was mentally incapable of disposing of his property; if the will imposed unreasonable or cruel demands as a condition of inheritance; or if the testator did not have clear title to the bequeathed assets.

Frankenstein is not kitted out with a deformed assistant, nor is the Creature bequeathed the brain of a deviant, homicidal criminal – both of which details are the invention of Richard Brinsley Peake in Presumption; or, the Fate of Frankenstein (1826), the first of the many theatrical distortions of the novel.

The banking collapse, and the legacy bequeathed by the Irish state's extraordinary September 2008 bank guarantee, has seen society in Ireland reshaped as a petri dish for IMF, European commission and ECB experimentation.

"I feel a little like Poetry Magazine getting its $100 million," she said, referring to the windfall bequeathed to the journal Poetry this fall by Ruth Lilly, an heiress whose poems the journal had rejected.

Many would prefer respect for that achievement over the pity bequeathed by the disease definition.

And yet the dictatorship bequeathed to the infant democracy a looted treasury, a ballooning budget deficit and a rotten judiciary.

According to Heidegger, the categories bequeathed by the philosophical tradition for understanding a being who can question his or her being are insufficient: traditional concepts of a substance decked out with reason, or of a subject blessed with self-consciousness, misconstrue our fundamental character as "being-in-the-world".

But one copy, the one bequeathed by either the mother or the father, is randomly inactivated in each cell so as to keep dosage levels the same in women's cells as in men's, which possess only one X chromosome.