Sentence examples for a progenitor of from inspiring English sources

Tobacco surely rivals arsenic as a progenitor of fatal cancer.

Turner was reimagined as a progenitor of modern art; first of impressionism, then of postwar abstraction.

A progenitor of punk with an intractable public image, Patti Smith is a prickly icon.

When it came to the Western Hemisphere in 1968, it was a progenitor of the childless resort.

The Well was a progenitor of AOL, Facebook and other forms of social networking.

Often considered a progenitor of body horror, Mr. Cronenberg has an underappreciated sense of humor.

But the two don't marry, and Andy's status as an upstanding, sensitive, rugged single father makes the show, in retrospect, seem uncannily like a progenitor of WB's "Everwood".

Collaborators So far open-source development has been more of an Internet-age breakthrough in engineering management than a progenitor of new technologies.

Her influence on politics remains potent; Peter Mandelson, a progenitor of Tony Blair's New Labor, declared in 2001 that "we are all Thatcherites now".

Zeus sentences Tantalus, a progenitor of the Greek general Agamemnon, to an eternity of hunger and thirst and a life perpetually threatened by a precariously balanced great boulder.

Holloway's charismatic companions on this recording are the harpsichordist Lars Ulrik Mortensen and, on the dulcian (a progenitor of the modern bassoon), Jane Gower.