Sentence examples for main disciple from inspiring English sources

Kirchheimer tells the story of Burnham's success and Sullivan's failure and decline into obscurity and poverty, owing in part to his alcoholism — as well as the story of Sullivan's main disciple and devotee, Frank Lloyd Wright.

He was one of the main disciples of Yisroel Salanter, and in 1883 had been appointed the maggid (preacher) of Vilna.

His chief disciple was Poseidonius of Apamea.

That he won a second term is a testament to his political acumen, and the fear many Peruvians felt of his main rival, Humala, who was campaigning as a disciple of Venezuela's Hugo Chávez.

For some time afterwards, his main literary output was his voluminous correspondence with his disciples.

Peruvians consume an estimated 65 million guinea pigs each year, and the animal is so entrenched in the culture that one famous painting of the Last Supper in the main cathedral in Cusco shows Christ and the 12 disciples dining on guinea pig.

This philosopher, as he is portrayed in the books of his disciple Plato, frequented the agora – the market and main public gathering place of Athens – engaging fellow citizens in conversation.

The scepticism in the 'Apologie' is, no doubt, a main source of "solipsism", but Descartes cannot be called a disciple of Montaigne in the sense that he would have inherited a doctrine.

The main character was a master teacher, a guru who prodded his disciples not just to better behavior but to union with the divine.

Chertkov took away Tolstoy's manuscripts and disturbed his peace with a litany of complaints -- on other disciples, on Tolstoy's daughters, and on Sophia, who was his main rival.

She said last year that the "main topic" of the papyrus was whether women who were mothers and wives could be disciples.