Sentence examples for a kind of forerunner from inspiring English sources

Cast as an 11-year-old in the 1994 thriller Léon, her role opposite Jean Reno established her as a kind of forerunner of the now-ubiquitous manic pixie dream girl.

Thereafter, he learned much from John Coltrane, worked with Miles Davis and started tying everything together in the 1970's, as an educator and the composer of "Afro-American Suite of Evolution," a kind of forerunner of Wynton Marsalis's long pieces in its learned inclusion of styles reaching back to ragtime.

In 1990, F.C. Barcelona, under the legendary player turned coach Johan Cruyff, signed Michael Laudrup, an imaginative, playmaking center forward whom Wilson describes as a kind of forerunner to Lionel Messi, the player who would come to define the false-nine role.

In fact, this paradigm became a kind of forerunner of today's rapidly expanding fields of "perinatal programming" and "developmental origins of health and disease".

One was "Mercier and Camier," a kind of novelistic forerunner to "Waiting for Godot".

Manson was a murderer and a kind of twisted celebrity, and in that way a forerunner to the modern terrorist.

Or so that Michael Asher, another forerunner of relational aesthetics, could build a kind of sensory-deprivation chamber, or Robert Morris could create a bonsai forest of fir trees.

Adam J. Fein, a pharmaceutical consultant and blogger, said: "It's kind of a forerunner of what's going to happen over the next two years as everyone battles for the incremental profit in the generic wave".

Neither of these things is surprising: Ruddock was a forerunner of a new kind of technician-artist, with an atelier system (many of the later King Tubby mixes were made by other engineers in his studio) and a close link to the means of production.

So they turned to an informal new kind of writing that became the forerunner of the phonetic alphabet.

Had he lived, Forde thinks Herko may have formed his own company, a forerunner of the kind of dance Michael Clark became famous for 20 years later.