Sentence examples for founding works from inspiring English sources

For Marsh's book was indeed one of the founding works of modern environmentalism.

Praised by the New York Times as well as the Daily Worker, it was one of the founding works of what came to be known as off‑Broadway.

Because Gassendi's epistemological views seem to be echoed in major sections of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), one of the founding works of British empiricism, some scholars have concluded that Locke was directly influenced by Gassendi.

The title refers to Shulamith Firestone, a writer and artist whose 1970 book "The Dialectic of Sex," published when she was twenty-five, is one of the founding works of radical feminist thought.

One of the founding works of Western literature may be a travel story about getting lost, but apart from the image of heartbroken Odysseus crying on the shores of Calypso's island, Homer rarely portrays his hero's disconnection and desperation.

This ecstatic panorama of furious visions and revolutionary dreams in the vast, violent landscape of rural Brazil, made in 1963 by the twenty-four-year-old director Glauber Rocha, is one of the founding works of the modern Brazilian cinema.

(Why this particular object? Why present it in just this way?) It is thus not surprising that the founding work of found "anti-art," Duchamp's "Fountain" (1917)—his deliciously seditious installation of a deliberately inverted, humorously signed (by "R.

Some historians have suggested that the founding work of impressionism, Impression, Sunrise (1872-3), was painted as a direct result.

So, too, is the defining trait of adulthood — sex, which is central to the founding work in the modern monster genre, Howard Hawks's "The Thing from Another World".

Problematically, "Birth of a Nation" wasn't just a seminal commercial spectacle but also a decisively original work of art — in effect, the founding work of cinematic realism, albeit a work that was developed to pass lies off as reality.

Just as Make Music New York embraces all musical styles, "In C" — though traditionally regarded as classical new music and a founding work of Minimalism — can be played by ensembles of any description.