Sentence examples for representative of his time from inspiring English sources

"Our viewpoint is that Cobb was representative of his time," he said.

In some ways he was representative of his time, race and class, while resolutely nonconformist and solitary.

His life in entertainment — as a busker tapping for pennies, a vaudevillian, song-and-dance man, comedy tap dancer bringing that black vernacular style to Broadway — is iconic, representative of his time.

The film fulfils the minimum life-story requirements: it gives you the basic facts, shows that the subject was a little bit representative of his time, tosses in a few gentle ironies.

His objection to the inhumanity of slavery, his questioning of the profit motive, and his unusual respect for women combine to make Paris seem more of a modern virtuous lefty than a real representative of his time.

All of the archaeological data show that the Stone Age farmer was representative of his time and group and was born and raised near the place of his burial.

Readers at the book club event tended to see him as a representative of his times.

Yet in many ways he was always representative of his times, certainly of his adopted city: a Roosevelt Democrat, to use the old term, who moved easily into neo-conservatism.

But Greenspan is nothing if not a representative leader of his time.

We should not be misled, by the enigma of his vanishing, into overrating Kees, either as a man or as an artist; he was a major minor poet, yet that very stature, together with his ceaseless lusting to be other or better than he was, makes him a representative figure of his time.

He will be remembered as the representative man of his times: the computer programmer who conquered the world.