Sentence examples for three generations preceding from inspiring English sources

The YOLO Pages also refocuses our attention on Generation Y authors, whose native cultural paradigm--metamodernism--stands in stark contrast to the milieu of the three generations preceding them, which generations now seek (through some of their most institutionally patronized scions) the colonization of a sphere of literature they sadly have had almost nothing to do with.

He was referring to the three generations that preceded him as well as his own, and those of his two sons and grandchildren.

Two antibiotic-free generations preceded selection experiments, and the experimental media lacked antibiotics.

A person thus gets to know the names of six generations (three preceding generation, his own and two succeeding generations his sons and grandsons) in his life, reaffirming lineage ties.

It is essential that Shraddha be performed by the son usually the eldest or male relative of the paternal branch of the family, limited to the preceding three generations.

A few may belong to the generation preceding or following ours.

Niccolò was a banker in Florence of the generation preceding Lorenzo.

The reason he's writing, the Reverend John Ames tells his son, is that he has a weak heart, he won't be around much longer and he wants to tell the boy so much about his family, starting with the three generations of Rev John Ameses who have preceded him.

As both an individual playwright and a hub of theatrical activity, he has defined his time in the way Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, Neil Simon and Edward Albee defined the three preceding generations.

According to Hinduism, the souls of three preceding generations of one's ancestor reside in Pitru loka, a realm between heaven and earth.

So he preceded the Beethoven with works by composers representing three generations of contemporary music in Quebec.