Sentence examples for the primary text from inspiring English sources

From a western perspective, the Exodus story is the primary text of the biblical cry of freedom.

In the Bible, the primary text of my religious childhood, the one figure who is given soup as a gift has far more taken from him in return.

One of "Robinson Crusoe" 's biggest early fans was Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who, in "Émile," proposed that it be the primary text for the education of children.

It is fitting, given Wilson's emotional biography — the primary "text" that he refers to in "Einstein" — that he saved love for last.

The primary text, V. M. Straka's "Ship of Theseus," is a highly symbolic, mystical tale of an odd man named S., who finds himself spinning through a widening gyre of conspiracy theories, assassination plots and strange voyages.

In terms of its supernal confidence and its group momentum, there were echoes of Sonny Rollins's tenor-saxophone trio performances at the same Village Vanguard in 1957, which were recorded and have since become the primary text of the tenor trio.

There are, too, the nearly two million printed books and the thousands of specialized scholarly periodicals crucial to the study of the primary texts.

Typically, Plotinus would at his seminars have read out passages from Platonic or Aristotelian commentators, it being assumed that the members of the seminar were already familiar with the primary texts.

Joas argues, among other things, that Horkheimer largely relied on Scheler's (also, in Joas's view, mistaken) interpretation of the pragmatists, but the footnotes and quotes in Eclipse suggest that Horkheimer did a fair amount of work with the primary texts.

"Further, during his presidency, President Jefferson also developed a school curriculum for the District of Columbia that used the Bible and a Christian hymnal as the primary texts to teach reading..."...

In such situations when I had not managed to read the primary texts (for whatever reason), I have very often chosen to cite the very comprehensive et quite recent reference book "Speciation" by Coyne and Orr (2004), and to refer to it as 'C&O', with the indication of the appropriate chapter or page number.