Sentence examples for it was a forerunner from inspiring English sources

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.