Sentence examples for illustrious forebear from inspiring English sources

At least the metaphor has an illustrious forebear.

Charismatic descendants like Alarm Will Sound and Signal, meanwhile, now offer a technical precision and idiomatic polish that their illustrious forebear can't always match.

At 5 p.m., Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, (212) 875-5788, chambermusicsociety.org; $35 to $65. (Vivien Schweitzer) Daniel Hope (Thursday) Like his illustrious forebear Yehudi Menuhin, the violinist Mr. Hope is possessed of a creative wanderlust that knows no borders.

The conception is hardly fresh, but no one has been this hilariously wrongheaded since the character's illustrious forebear, Sherman Hemsley of "The Jeffersons," who receives the homage of a recurring role as Hughley's father-in-law.

In Paris the following month, Stefano Pilati's Saint Laurent swansong was touching – here was a designer who has for a decade managed the difficult task of fitting his own personality and that of his illustrious forebear into a line that never felt compromised or divided, or in any way diverted from the founder's original message of strong, progressive femininity.

As Martin investigates his illustrious forebear's life, he stumbles upon haemophilia in his own convoluted family tree.

The contrast with Clarke's illustrious forebears could not be starker.

It remains to be seen how the class of 2007 will compare to illustrious forebears such as Jonathan Franzen, David Guterson and Jeffrey Eugenides.

Is there nothing left for the modern blues player to do except to replicate the work of illustrious forebears?

Savion Glover, a young tap star with a healthy respect for his illustrious forebears, jams with three other young tappers and a musical ensemble headed by Elim Fountain.

What separates the songs of Bon Iver from those of his more illustrious forebears is that there isn't any tension in them.