Sentence examples for direct historical from inspiring English sources

There were direct historical precedents.

However, their direct historical links to the religion of Mani are difficult to establish.

K can conjure up not only nightmarish pictures of chopped limbs and kohlrabi, but pages and pages of highly formed rhetoric, literary references and direct historical accusation.

Romantics like to think of them as a direct historical link to the Spanish Barb, released in the south-west during the 1500s by the conquistadors.

"Sampling, to assemble music, is very close to what I do," Mr. Pillet said, speaking of how he layers his design with influences that include comic strips and cocktail lounges, rather than direct historical references.

This name is a very direct historical indication that the Ground Zero mosque is all about conquest and thus an assertion of Islamist triumphalism which we should not tolerate.

Skilfully directed historical reenactments take place around him as the tale unfolds.

Paul Greengrass has a habit of directing historical films in a highly effective, tense documentary style while making striking, though disparate, political points.

At the outbreak of World War II he returned to Germany and reluctantly directed historical films imposed upon him by the Nazi regime.

After World War I, Ernst Lubitsch gained fame directing historical dramas, such as Madame Du Barry (1919), that were termed "costume dramas" even in their own day.

In film, Amma Asante directed historical drama Belle and Destiny Ekaragha helmed the comedy of manners Gone Too Far, making them members of a very elite club of black British female directors.