Sentence examples for the urtext from inspiring English sources

"The Virginian" is the urtext of the cowboy myth.

And hugely influential too, the urtext for the asinine.

Yet Loftsson's scheme has a remarkable resonance with the urtext of whaling: Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, written in 1851.

Morris found much of the Wilmington proceeding maddening, especially, he noted, the way that McGinniss's book had become "the urtext of this case".

Along with the Centre for Social Justice's work on universal credit, published a couple of years later, it's the urtext of the current government's welfare policy.

The Urtext is higher education minister David Willetts's book The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took their Children's Future – and Why They Should Give it Back.

On the occasion of his eightieth birthday, it becomes clearer than ever that "Invisible Man" and his two collections of essays, "Shadow and Act" (1964) and "Going to the Territory" (1986), are the urtexts for a loose coalition of black American intellectuals who represent an integrationist vision of the country's history and culture.

Unlike the infamous Joe McGinniss/Jeffrey MacDonald face-off savagely documented in Janet Malcolm's book The Journalist and the Murderer (the 1990 urtext to which all such stories aspire), the symbiotic relationship between Finkel and Longo is neither complex, intriguing, nor dramatic enough to turn this battle of personal demons into something more universal.

"The Simpsons," which is, notably, a cartoon, is the modern urtext of the genre; other examples range from "Seinfeld" to "30 Rock," another series created by Fey, to "Broad City".

This last is a 13th-century book identified as "the unquestioned urtext of the cricket community".

For any pianist, the use of the best urtext editions ought to be mandatory.