Sentence examples for it is a forerunner from inspiring English sources

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

It is a forerunner of a famous speech in The Caretaker where Mick seeks to intimidate the tramp Davies by beating him on his chosen ground - his knowledge of London's maze-like geography.

It was a forerunner to Miranda.

It was a forerunner of much of his political verse.

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

"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.

It celebrated jaunty coeds and Butterick sewing patterns; it was a forerunner of generations of That Girls to come -- smart young women living on their own.

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.

Today: Soloist, conductor, academic In those days, the viewing public was massive - around 12 million, and every heat was on the TV - it was a forerunner of Pop Idol, if you like.

The significance of this maneuver was that it was a forerunner of the technique which probably will be used to send men to the moon — two or more spaceships meeting in space, transshipping men and materials, and then shooting off for the moon.