Sentence examples for modern heirs from inspiring English sources

Are there any modern heirs to this kind of comedy?

The troupe of drummers, singers and dancers performs music of Jamaica's Afro-Caribbean folk religions and rituals, including Nyabinghi, Kumina and Karomanti, and its modern heirs.

WALLACE AND GROMIT: The Complete Collection Prominent among the modern heirs of Disney is Nick Park, the British stop-motion animator behind the brilliant "Wallace and Gromit" series.

It is, perhaps, the most humanist art prize in the world, an art award that specifically celebrates the painted human image and looks for modern heirs to the profoundly compassionate tradition of portraiture that includes Rembrandt, Velázquez and Lucian Freud.

For cello or guitar, the other two had available the works of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as well as their more modern heirs, but the saxophone was not invented until 1841.

The ancient Greeks were unforgiving toward Olympic losers, but they also saw nobility in the struggle against adversity, which may help explain why, at these Games, their modern heirs have been having a ball.

(Melville is his modern heir).

(Kendrick Lamar is proving to be a worthy modern heir, but he's a rarity).

Whether Emerson has a modern heir remains an open question, but, more than a century after his death, the speaking trade he enjoyed continues to thrive.

It has been a long wait -- 507 games -- for the team's modern heir to the legacy of Homer Jones, a Pro Bowler in 1968.

When first we met our contenders for the golden boy, they included veterans (Clint Eastwood, with the sports drama biopic "Invictus"), modern heir apparents (Jason Reitman, "Up in the Air") and upstarts (Lee Daniels, "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire").