Sentence examples for her antecedents from inspiring English sources

Like most artists, Bernhard has her antecedents.

Her antecedents were the rancorous, meddlesome Macedonian queens who routinely poisoned brothers and sent armies against sons.

Homes begins an obsessive search on the Internet for her antecedents, even hiring two researchers to help her.

Frayn says at the outset that his father has been dead for 40 years and that he wrote the book at the urging of his 47-year-old daughter, Rebecca, who wanted to know more about her antecedents.

Barely a page goes by without something fascinating on it, betraying Light's skill in winkling out the most relevant or moving aspects of her antecedents' lives, which echo through the generations.

Shouts of "Go back to Moscow!" greeted her when she rose in Parliament, and, on at least one occasion, "Go back to Israel!" — a reference to her antecedents as the daughter of early 20th-century Jewish immigrants from Lithuania.

This will count as a case of illicit belief formation inasmuch as the agent's social attitudes cause her to be insensitive to her visual stimuli in a way that confirms her antecedent attitudes (Siegel 2012).

For from her prominent antecedents, to her obvious chic, it was as if she and her husband, a real-life Vanderbilt descendant, represented, via youth, charm, privilege and compassion, everything to which I aspired.

The action of the play is compressed into the last three days in Mary's life, before her execution at Fotheringhay; all the antecedents—her French marriage, her brief and troubled Scottish reign, her long imprisonment in England emerge by means of retrospective analysis.

What was really startling about Warren's early work was how unexpected it seemed - its expressive plasticity, those malleable, cloddish forms, even more than the sideswipes she was taking at her male antecedents.

Rain and mould, termites and bandit-guerrillas look ready to bring the judge's home down around his ears, while a neighbour's put-down of VS Naipaul's failure to progress from his "colonial neurosis" shows Desai pointedly measuring out the distance she intends to travel from her obvious antecedent.