Sentence examples for precursor phrase from inspiring English sources
In The Yale Book of Quotations, I give this specific and accurate source (also noting a precursor phrase, "To delay justice, is injustice," by William Penn in 1693).
Originally titled "Funeral Games" and subtitled "A Farce," the play demands impeccable style of the indefinable kind inspired by Shaw or Wilde, both the epigrammatic precursors of Orton's exquisite, wicked turn of phrase.
Mrs. Bush's lunchtime speech was a more personal precursor to her husband's address in Atlanta tonight, using some of the same phrases and at least one anecdote.
The phrase, "it's not gay because we were just joking" is always about the best precursor to anything ever, but the fact that these people think there's some kind of cosmic deity "counting" their offences, before presumably flicking their gay wand and pitching up their voice a couple of octaves is amazing.
(The great-uncle was the leader of the KAM congregation, a precursor of KAM Isaiah Israel. Founded in 1847, KAM took its name — an acronym for the Hebrew phrase "Kehilath Anshe Ma'arav," "Congregation of the People of the West" — in tribute to its frontier origins).
There were precursor chemicals.
Radical precursor of modernity.
Apart from the curse, Mr. Pretti excels with a sensitively phrased "Quando le sere al placido," the opera's most famous aria, and brings hearty tone to its cabaletta, a precursor of Manrico's "Di quella pira".
