Sentence examples for is a forerunner of from inspiring English sources

The pagan festival of Samhain is a forerunner of Halloween.

Disobedient Pierre, whose reply to every question is "I don't care," is a forerunner of Max.

Hall's Mundus Alter et Idem (Another World, and Yet the Same), is a forerunner of Gulliver's Travels.

Glorifying eroticism and the aesthetic life, it is a forerunner of the Künstlerroman ("artist novel") of the Romantic movement.

With its simple, sparsely decorated sets, frequent use of close-ups, and flawless plot structure, Spies is a forerunner of Hitchcock’s British-period thrillers.

Our runtime acceleration system is a forerunner of a new class of CPU GPU algorithms exploiting memory concepts combined with threading for avoiding bus bandwidth and communication.

Anyone, he announced at the festival, who wanted to know more about IS, should read up on Hassan, who was a forerunner of today's extremists.

It was a forerunner of much of his political verse.

Pyramids was a forerunner of the game snooker.

Pool was a forerunner of the game snooker.

"That was a forerunner of what became the violent universe.