Sentence examples for a forebear of from inspiring English sources

Boldly balancing representation and abstraction, Monet's radical late works redefined the master of Impressionism as a forebear of modernism.

The most spectacular single piece is a 23-tonne granite statue of Ptolemy II Philadelphius, a forebear of Cleopatra.

Humana, a pioneer of for-profit health care (and a forebear of Galen, which Columbia bought in 1993), spent much of the 1980s besieged by investigators and lawsuits.

At the same time, however, scholars often portrayed Milton variously as a forebear of present-day sensitivities and sensibilities and as an exponent of regressive views.

Graham Kerr A forebear of Floyd's eccentric episodics, the Galloping Gourmet was as indulgent as his calorie-filled food during his 70s heyday.

Private correspondence revealed that Seward planned to request a "port, sufficient for a wharf and buildings for a naval depot" in what appeared to be a forebear of Pearl Harbor.

Vital né Vidal speaks four languages in addition to Romansh, and one day a few years ago he was reading an essay by Gore Vidal (a friend had recommended it) when he happened upon a reference to a Swiss forebear of the author.

The Averys did not always know they had a forebear accused of being a witch.

A corporate forebear of Fininvest is a company called Finanziaria di Investimento Fininvest Srl (Fininvest Srl), which was incorporated in Rome in March 1975.

He showed me the scapula of an aurochs, an extinct forebear of domestic cattle, weighing more than two thousand pounds.

The sale is likely to benefit from a groundswell of interest in Georgiana, the 18th-century Duchess of Devonshire, a distant forebear of Diana, Princess of Wales, and the subject of a 2008 biographical film called "The Duchess," starring Keira Knightley.