Sentence examples for ancestral memory from inspiring English sources

A juicy cut of beef is a fine thing, but the taste of wild meat taps deep into ancestral memory.

The orphan boy invests his fate in an ancestral memory, his mother's, who during her lying-in was paid a visit from Aunt Betsey.

"Condors," written in the late fifties, captures the trauma of the Communist takeover, through the ancestral memory of the nomad invasions from the north.

Lacking sacred texts or oral histories, later generations of penguins were at least spared the harrowing ancestral memory of the earlier disasters.

Not only was there an ancestral memory of persecution: as a child, Pinter lived through the worst of the London blitz, where death was a daily reality.

But how many in the latter group have grandparents or great-grandparents who once lived in the South, and how much of an ancestral memory do they have?

Welcomed as peacemakers, they soon aroused ancestral memories of long-ago English invasions.

My fantasy, of course, was that I could somehow tap these ancestral memories.

"We wanted to recall the ancestral memories" of these materials, Farresin added, while making something entirely contemporary.

His mostly instrumental music goes genre-hopping -- reggae, garage-rock, manic cartoon jazz, circus tootling, toy-piano ditties -- as if communing with his instruments' ancestral memories.

Hoping to stir up ancestral memories of blockbusters, they came up with freeze-dried versions of the synthesizer orchestras on "Thriller," and Ms. Spears clips words like Mr. Jackson.