Sentence examples for defining text from inspiring English sources

Far more so than Charles Dickens's Hard Times, Benjamin Disraeli's Sybil, or Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present, Engels's The Condition of the Working Class is the defining text of the British industrial experience.

It is also the defining text of what its subtitle calls "the Golden Age of Rock".

His first assignment, a four-part series on the Apollo 17 launch, called "Post-Orbital Remorse," later became his book "The Right Stuff," still a defining text of so-called New Journalism.

Bern and Aubrey Gorbman, a former zoology professor and department chairman at the University of Washington, co-authored the defining text in the field, "A Textbook of Comparative Endocrinology," in 1962.

"But he made his greatest impact through his textbooks, including Introduction to Geochemistry, the defining text on geochemistry, which laid out the basic principles still being taught today". A third edition of the book, coauthored with Stanford Professor Dennis Bird, was published in 1994.

It's my firm belief that Ibiza Uncovered is as much a defining text for British culture as any Chaucerian tale, Labour Party manifesto or Plan B "social opera".

These became the defining texts of "structuralism".

Two writers, apparent contraries, produced defining texts at the same moment.

Many movie scholars consider it one of camp's defining texts.

1968 Published The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, an account of Ken Kesey's travels across America, experimenting with LSD, which became one of the defining texts of Sixties.

Emerging at a time when we also saw a new energy to black activism in American life, both Citizen and Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between The World and Me became defining texts of 2015.