Sentence examples for direct inheritors from inspiring English sources

Among his direct inheritors are Joey Baron, who will perform in Friday's concert, and David King, of the Bad Plus; among the less obvious is Jeff (Tain) Watts, one of the headliners at Generations of the Beat on Saturday night.

"WACK!" stops at 1980, but the performance featured choreography by Ms. Silvers, a direct inheritor of Judson and one of today's most alive, sensitive performers.

Mr. Kelly, despite his constitutional lasciviousness, is a direct inheritor of the church's inspired shouts, a channeler of outrageously deep sentiment and in easy command of his gift.

In many ways, the subprime mortgage crisis, which was explicitly and disproportionately destructive in communities of color, is a direct inheritor of the federally sanctioned redlining policies of the mid-20th century.

The cause was cancer, said her husband, Douglas Knight Jr., who survives her along with their son, Aniruddha, a dancer who is the last direct inheritor of the music and dance traditions preserved in his family for 10 generations.

"I am privileged, as a white Southern writer," he says in another essay, "to be a direct inheritor of the orality, earthiness, emotional juice, metaphorical fluency, rhythmic relish and improvisatory looseness of Southern American English, whose black and white ingredients vary as to proportions but are inseparable".

The mere fact that someone ejaculated in someone's birth canal and the baby landed on English soil makes each Englishman or woman the direct inheritor of the genius of these towering figures, and you should treat all the locals as though you were personally addressing Dickens or Darwin, even if they have trouble with revolving doors.

On drums is Ralph Peterson, the most direct and dynamic inheritor of Blakey's style.

Hanks plays Shaun, a would-be writer from Orange County, California, yearning to go to Stanford University, in this intermittently lively but basically pretty ordinary comedy, directed by Jake Kasdan, himself the inheritor of a great name from father Lawrence.

It means they are central — the inheritors.

We are its inheritors and continuance today.