Sentence examples for a tutelary from inspiring English sources
Don DeLillo, a friend, is a tutelary figure.
Later, the Surrealists and then the existentialists seized on him as a tutelary hero.
The being became a tutelary guide, instructing an individual in curing and sources of power.
Wheeler has become a tutelary figure and almost mythic in her memory.
Yi-dam, in Tibetan Buddhism, a tutelary, or guardian, deity with whom a lama (monk) has a special, secret relationship.
Brodsky chose to fly to Vienna, where he was taken in by W. H. Auden, who became a tutelary figure.
His advisers, admirers of Franco's fascist dictatorship in Spain, wrote a constitution that gave the army a permanent tutelary role.
While Pakistan has had an interrupted democratic streak since 2008 - the longest in the country's 70-year history- the military still maintains a robust tutelary role over the civilian dispensation and exerts a chokehold over the so-called national narrative through panoply of direct and indirect methods.
Among the awards the Japanese author has claimed is the Franz Kafka prize, which is fitting because the Czech fabulist haunts Murakami's fiction as both an explicit presence – in Kafka on the Shore (2002) – and a general tutelary influence.
Groups of villages form larger territorial units united by traditions of descent from a single parent village or village group and by the possession of a common tutelary spirit and totem.
After the short rule of Albert IV (1395 1404) and a troublesome tutelary regime (1404 11), Albert V came into his own, and with him the Danube countries again enjoyed a strong and energetic rule (1411 39).
