Sentence examples for great precursor to from inspiring English sources

This sculpture originally featured as an attraction in that great precursor to department stores and exhibition centres such as Earls Court or the NEC, and it was presented as both piously improving and desirable home decoration.

As is Lethem's generous habit, all six essays honor writers who, except for the then-ascendant Bolaño and of course West ("the great precursor to Heller, Pynchon, Philip K. Dick, Colson Whitehead and so much else"), have been underpraised.

However, an article in Salon magazine from 2000 points to "Beyond Blunderdome" as the greatest precursor to that Homer would be more predominant as "Jerkass Homer" in the Scully era as showrunner, a Homer who "is not only dumb, but [has also become] disgusting and semi-sociopathic.

Among Popper's possessions is a boxed set of Charlie Chaplin DVDs, and while it may be presumptuous of Mr. Carrey to clown in such company, he is also paying tribute to a great precursor.

Like the election of a black man as president of the United States, and like its great precursor Bladerunner, Avatar presents a physical answer to a philosophical question.

Lanzmann's great precursor in the control of time was Jean-Luc Godard, who understood that his ability to determine the schedule of production was an indispensable precondition of his creative control (during the production of his first feature," Breathless," Godard got into a fistfight with his producer because he didn't feel like shooting that day).

This was the general condition of the post-­Enlightenment intellectual, and it was allegorized, with dramatic force, by English-language poets, who, as they struggled to invent new poems, first resisted and then matched the examples of great precursor poets — above all Shakespeare and Milton, whose dominance seemed obliteratingly total.

"This will give us a great, great precursor for the Chrysler IPO.

His great precursor and influence here was Warhol, the inspiration for his 1971 song "Andy Warhol" and a role Mr. Bowie would actually play in the 1996 biopic "Basquiat".

The bulldozing by Islamic State of Nineveh, the flattening of Hatra, the demolition in Raqqa and now the destruction of Nimrud wipe from the map what were the great precursor cities of the European era.

(1932), a great precursor of François Truffaut's films with children, Ozu tells the story of two young boys whose upwardly mobile father moves the family to the suburbs of Tokyo and who have trouble fitting in with a band of local kids, one of whom is the boss's stuck-up son.