Sentence examples for Foundation text from inspiring English sources

First published in 1977, McCullough's Australia-set epis is a foundation text of chick lit.

On it, Missy samples a foundation text of electro, Cybotron's 'Clear', but, for once, she has not torn up the rulebook and danced gleefully on the fragments.

The memorandum is marked for internal use only and is meant to be a foundation text for the "cadres of administrators" which Isis wishes to train.

All had grown up reading the foundation text of American modern literature, Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, a brilliant sequence of stories about the darkness inside the white picket fences of a small Ohio town in the early 20th century.

In 1812 an academic philology treatise was published and promptly became, according to WH Auden, "second only to the Bible in importance" as a foundation text of western culture.

With a memoir Nadaud wrote in his twilight years as her foundation text, she draws on archives and a trove of unpublished letters to fill in the stories left untold, or told with embellishment.

The Flowers of Evil and The Painter of Modern Life are the foundation texts.

At once playfully ecstatic objects and cultural time pieces, avant-garde classics and foundation texts for queer cinema, the nearly two dozen Warhol films I've seen (out of some 160 nonscreen-test titles) enliven and excite.

A male teacher was addressing them on the origins of Shiism – he was using foundation texts to refute claims by hardline Sunnis that the Shias are a heretic sect and should be considered apostates.

More profoundly, as an allegory of state repression, it has been described by the historian EP Thompson as one of the "foundation texts of the English working-class movement".

Nabonidus, Cyrus's deposed predecessor as king of Babylon, commissioned foundation texts on clay cylinders – such as the Cylinder of Nabonidus, also in the British Museum – that follows the same basic formula.