Sentence examples for it's a forerunner from inspiring English sources

I also love its memorable, melodramatic crises, like the moment when Mercédès bursts through the polite fictions surrounding "the Count" to utter her despairing, agonised plea: "Edmond, you will not kill my son?" But I think I find Dantè's narrative most addictive because it's a forerunner of the classic superhero stories – in essence, I'm sitting on the sand reading the world's heaviest comic.

I also love its memorable, melodramatic crises, like the moment when Mercédès bursts through the polite fictions surrounding "the Count" to utter her despairing, agonised plea: "Edmond, you will not kill my son?" But I think I find Dantè's narrative most addictive because it's a forerunner of the classic superhero stories – in essence, I'm sitting on the sand reading the world's heaviest comic.

On Cristina's second album, "Sleep It Off," which was released in 1984, the producer Don Was makes the record echo with hard drum machines and nasty sounds; it's a forerunner of the recent musical fad called electroclash.

Now, it's a forerunner of modern technology and digital transformation.

In a way, it was a forerunner of today's social media efforts.

It was a forerunner to Miranda.

It was a forerunner of much of his political verse.

In a way, it was a forerunner of the bistro craze now in full bloom.

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

"In all sorts of ways it was a forerunner of things that then became taken up as serious issues.

Burning Man is no Model U.N., but as a congregation of self-appointed outliers in silly hats it was a forerunner of the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street.