Sentence examples for most obvious antecedent from inspiring English sources

By closing with a Guthrie song, Mr. Spelman said, the evening will connect "Nebraska" with the Dust Bowl songs that are its most obvious antecedent.

The most obvious antecedent is Proust, whom Knausgaard has said he "virtually imbibed" when A la recherche du temps perdu was finally translated into Norwegian in the 1980s.

It's been said before but Harvey's most obvious antecedent – in sound, intelligence and sheer force of personality – is the punk-poet Patti Smith.

If you think there's something of the deja vu about it, that's because you've deja viewed it – Twin Peaks being the most obvious antecedent, but also, just about, The Truman Show, Fargo and, I'm told, The Prisoner (though as a child I could watch neither that nor, interestingly, Babar because they made me think that's what being on drugs would be like).

"The Tortilla Curtain" may be the most obvious antecedent to "The Harder They Come".

Robinson Crusoe is its most obvious antecedent, followed by the space-age kitsch-flick descriptively named Robinson Crusoe on Mars.

The tailors who still work in and around London's Savile Row are experts at disentangling the military, medical and sporting threads that form the modern suit.The military antecedents are perhaps the most obvious.

The obvious antecedent of the group, founded in Hoboken, is the Velvet Underground.

The most obvious is location.

The most obvious is security.

The most obvious is piracy.