Sentence examples for testament based from inspiring English sources

He also contributed significantly to the Syriac literary heritage, particularly with the Philoxenian New Testament based on the original Greek text.

During his stay in Paris (1921 24) Pound met and helped the young American novelist Ernest Hemingway; wrote an opera, Le Testament, based on poems of François Villon; assisted T.S. Eliot with the editing of his long poem The Waste Land; and acted as correspondent for the New York literary journal The Dial.

"Testament" is based on a collection of letters from Benjamin W. Webb Bakerer to his mother and other family members in Illinois, from the time of his enlistment in 1861, at 19, until he is mustered out just before the Battle of Atlanta in 1864.

There will be 16 premieres at the festival including Testament of Youth, based on Vera Brittain's first world war memoir and starring Kit Harington and Alicia Vikander.

We know from Yazji's own testament this is based on fact, but it also pinpoints the dilemma of a play that is far better at providing information than at generating dramatic tension.

We saw the evocative film Testament to Youth based on Vera Brittain's book.

The most widely sold editions of the Greek New Testament are largely based on the text of the Codex Vaticanus.

"Testament of Youth": Based on an acclaimed World War I memoir, it tells the kind of potent, many-sided story whose complexities come courtesy of a life that lived them all.

And it is a testament to enduring friendship based on Remi's own chumminess with a beloved Chinese student.

A plangent mood of regret settles on this beautifully costumed, well-furnished, respectfully performed period drama, based on Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain's bestselling memoir of love, loss and desolation in the first world war, first published in 1933.

Even more influential was Johannes Cocceius (1603 69), whose 1648 work Summa doctrinae de foedere et testamento Deo ("The Summa on the Doctrine Concerning the Covenant and Testament of God") is based on the notion that the relation between God and humans, both before and after the Fall, was a covenant.