Sentence examples for principal exponent from inspiring English sources

The principal exponent of this counterproposal was Lieutenant Colonel Max Hoffmann.

To some extent, Angelica shared this negative view, while, at the same time, remaining a principal exponent of Bloomsbury, its values and way of life.

The latter point of view found expression in the creation (1918) by Juan Vázquez de Mella of the Traditionalist Party, which subsequently became the principal exponent of Carlism.

Derrida is most celebrated as the principal exponent of deconstruction, a term he coined for the critical examination of the fundamental conceptual distinctions, or "oppositions," inherent in Western philosophy since the time of the ancient Greeks.

Jacques-Louis David, (born Aug. 30, 1748, Paris, France died Dec. 29, 1825, Brussels, Belg). the most celebrated French artist of his day and a principal exponent of the late 18th-century Neoclassical reaction against the Rococo style.

In his chansons Josquin was the principal exponent of a style new in the mid-15th century, in which the learned techniques of canon and counterpoint were applied to secular song.

These two communities the former living in the world, the latter monastic became the principal exponents of devotio moderna.

Various black responses to oppression — emigration, accommodation, nonviolent protest, militarism — are also here, along with their principal exponents: Marcus Garvey, Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael.

These two communities became the principal exponents of devotio moderna (q.v ., a school and trend of spirituality stressing meditation and the inner life and criticizing the highly speculative spirituality of the 13th and 14th centuries.

These two communities became the principal exponents of devotio moderna, a school and trend of spirituality stressing meditation and the inner life and criticizing the highly speculative spirituality of the 13th and 14th centuries.

January 24 , 1915Aberdeen, Washington July 16 , 1991Provincetown, Massachusetts Robert Motherwell, (born Jan . 24 , 1915Aberdeen, Wash., U.S. died July 16 , 1991 Provincetown, Mass ., American painter, one of the founders and principal exponents of Abstract Expressionism, who was among the first American artists to cultivate accidental elements in his work.