Sentence examples for sort of prototype from inspiring English sources

Lutchman, a little man, is a sort of prototype of and antithesis to Biswas, to modernism's "little man".

Looking back at them now, tThey seem delightfully retro: a sort of prototype computer game constructed out of the only materials available at the time.

In 1972, Dick Taverne, a former Labour minister, resigned from the party after a bitter dispute with leftwing Labour activists in his constituency, and the following year set up a sort of prototype SDP, the Campaign for Social Democracy.

They are a sort of prototype for a band that outpunked even the very idea of punk by giving impossibly little of a shit about what may have been expected of them.

Antony Gormley's Iron: Man – a sort of wonky prototype for The Angel of The North – perfectly expresses the culture of Brum.

Jacques Tati's 16-minute short film from 1947, L'École des Facteurs, or The School for Postmen, is all about a wacky postman on a bike, and it's sort of a prototype.

He suggests in a paper published online this month in Trends in Cell Biology that scientists could use dance for a sort of rapid prototyping of hypotheses bodystorming rather than brainstorming.

The original Xbox One looked like a sort of mid-70s prototype VHS video recorder – all bulk and black plastic.

Thus, this was the first time I realized I sort of am the prototype of Gen Y, truly getting my breaking news from friends, not the news media.

This proposal only makes sense if the diagnostic categories are not simply defined by "symptom counting" [ 43], that is, a sufficient number of context-free criteria but are anchored in some sort of descriptive commonality, prototype, or Gestalt [ 51].

To Bohemians and Beatniks he seemed, in his free-spirited, vagabondish, slouch-hatted sort of way, a heroic prototype.