Sentence examples for earliest narrative from inspiring English sources

Genji's adventures, in turn, inspired some of the earliest narrative scrolls, helping to set in motion a pictorial style that would culminate in the Momoyama and Edo screens.

The museum's collection includes a cult vase from Uruk decorated with some of the earliest narrative pictures from the Sumerian culture.

Both Taste of Death (his earliest narrative, not published until 1975) and Carcase for Hounds (1974) capture the spirit of the resistance movement in the Kikuyu highlands of colonial Kenya.

There is a gap of more than 40 years between the first practical photographs, taken in the 1830s, and the first practical sound recordings, made in the late 1870s, and a gap between "The Great Train Robbery" in 1903, the earliest narrative silent movie, and "The Jazz Singer" in 1927, the first successful talking movie.

One of Borges' earliest narrative fictions, The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim (1938), is a brief review of a nonexistent book by a Bombay lawyer who "disbelieves in the Islamic faith of his fathers".

An alternative way of thinking about being a Christian is preserved in the gospel of Mark--our earliest narrative account of the career of Jesus.

His L'Espagne en auto (1906; "Spain by Auto") is one of the earliest narratives of automobile travel.

This is quickly manifest, even in the earliest narratives of childhood and youth, set in Updike's native small-town Pennsylvania, with its poignant intimacies of Depression-era families whose autobiographical phases, like elusive moons, are only partly veiled.

(It is the Hadith, Islam's early narrative, that forbids the faithful to represent him).

Bits of the early narrative are based on some recollections of my Suffolk schooldays.

But they make you wonder how much of the earlier narrative may be possible.