Sentence examples for his precursor from inspiring English sources

Chabon reflects on the superhero and his precursor, the golem.

"His precursor, Martin Roth, developed the museums significantly and after 10 years he went to the V&A in London.

If you're a genius like Raymond Carver or his precursor Harold Pinter such confinement is an advantage.

Premier Pierre Laval's policy of French-German collaboration, Jackson observes, owed not a little to his precursor, Aristide Briand, and anticipated, in turn, the postwar Schuman Plan.

(Because of Pope's, and his precursor John Dryden's, efforts to wrangle ancient epics into their preferred shape, their verses were called "heroic").

Brakhage saw Méliès as his precursor, "the first man to recognise motion pictures as medium of both super-nature and under-world".

Borges created his precursors, even Stevenson.

A1 WAR AND SACRIFICE -- The president faces a dilemma that none of his precursors encountered.

Compared with Karajan, who had a cat burglar's grace, his precursors seemed murky and spastic.

But Mr. Penn, as gifted and disciplined as any of his precursors, makes them all look like, well, actors.

Borges, in particular, was drawn to this, and in his essay "Kafka and His Precursors" he finds some of Kafka's "idiosyncrasy" in the Dunsany story "Carcassonne".