Sentence examples for master and disciple from inspiring English sources

Each is, in turn, hero and villain, master and disciple, con man and patsy.

The painting was not shown to the public for decades; it is a highly personal meditation between master and disciple.

The mountain as a meeting place of heaven and earth, gods and men, and master and disciple (as already in Zhuangzi), takes on a vast downward extension.

To be both pursuer and pursued, master and disciple, "wanted man" and the "holy order" that harbors him: this fate awaits all poets of Paterson's calibre, chased offstage by the art they once chased.

But as a way in to the history of the mind, the relation between master and disciple could scarcely be richer in terms of drama, with its perilous trusts and shattering betrayals.

This is considered an exemplary interaction between Daoist master and disciple, reflecting the testing a seeker must undergo before being accepted.

The common essential element, however, was the sharing of certain foods, in prescribed quantities, among masters and disciples.

You still had literary heroes, masters and disciples; it was just that what they did now was deconstruct each other.

The guru or master and his disciple had launched into a duet - drumming - rather pounding - vigorously in complete harmony on a clay pot.

As a textual study, these dialogues are a primary paradigm for the non-practitioner to learn what "two" things are by studying a discourse that unfolds between a Zen master and his disciple.

"She has no master and no disciples, which forces her to reinvent the history of cinema in her own terms," Ms. Reynaud wrote.