Sentence examples for clear antecedents from inspiring English sources

Of course, the on-the-stick concept has clear antecedents.

The vocal writing had clear antecedents as well.

They were, however, clear antecedents of the work of later balladeers like Sinead O'Connor and Suzanne Vega.

Idlewild plays big, well-constructed songs that have clear antecedents in American indie rock of the 1980's and early 90's.

It's always on the way to becoming something else; that may be why it gives the impression of having no clear antecedents.

If Andrew Hill was one of Mr. Iyer's clear antecedents — melodies made from prickly, stubborn phrases, overlapping rhythms, dark and dense harmony turning into beauty — then bebop rhythm was to Hill as funk is to Mr. Iyer.

Also, there's no clear antecedent for "those," which in this construction seems to refer to "top performers".

I kept noticing, early on, that Smith was using the pronoun "it" in situations where "it" had no clear antecedent.

(The scene in "Salesman" in which Willy Loman's egregious betrayal of his family is revealed to his elder son, Biff, has a clear antecedent here).

Dana Andrews, who always seemed to have something on his mind that he could neither shake nor forget, plays a detective named Mark Dixon, with a reputation for rough play: a clear antecedent of the Russell Crowe character in "L.A. Confidential".

The extensive list of works that Rankine has drawn on, ranging from James Baldwin to Homi Bhabha to Robert Lowell, makes "Citizen" (like Whitman's "Song of Myself," a clear antecedent) one of those American art works that equip us to do without it.