Sentence examples for figures of the next from inspiring English sources

Specialist journalists are traditionally required to predict the major figures of the next generation: prospective party leaders, future England captains, potential poet laureates.

Here he was visited by the most influential literary figures of the next generation, including Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson and the philosopher JS Mill.

We become tangled in circumstance and subtle clues, such as shapes that migrate and develop from one cluster of figures to the next.

Although he lost the 1996 general election, he returned to power as leader of a rightwing coalition in 2001 and became the dominant political figure of the next 10 years, despite being plagued by court cases relating to his businesses.

The novelist Iain Pears, who chaired the judging panel, called McInerney "a major literary figure of the next generation" and "a genuinely exciting writer – there is electricity running through her prose".

It is precisely the idea of a critical turn in hermeneutics combined with the focus on the individuality of language-use that made Schleiermacher such an important figure for the next generation of hermeneuticians, concerned as they were with the methodology of the human sciences, or, as they understood it, with the critique, in the Kantian meaning of the term, of historical reason.

"This is the government's way of saying, 'We're going to be an 800lb gorilla until we figure out the next level of foolproof safeguards,'" he says.

Diving into music was a way for the brothers to individually figure out the next chapter of their lives.

As for Musharraf, he is living in a fool's paradise if he thinks he is going to be a father figure to the next prime minister of Pakistan.

As shown on the right side of Figure 2, the next level of complexity is the synthesis of monodisperse sequence-defined copolymers containing aperiodic sequences.

At the northeast corner of Central Park in Harlem, his Duke Ellington Memorial stands 30 feet high, with three columns topped by the Muses holding up an 8-foot figure of the musician next to a piano.