Sentence examples for true ancestors from inspiring English sources

The true ancestors (not writing) of film.

The true ancestors of Transformers are the stream of toy-pushing DVD movies, such as the Barbie animated series.

And while both have French models, it is Anthony Powell and Evelyn Waugh who are Boyd's true ancestors.

This time, he went all out – saying that France's identity and unity was threatened, targeting Islam and immigrants, promising to limit the French nationality rights of children born of foreign parents, saying that the only true ancestors of France were the Gauls, insisting that children who don't eat pork should lose their special school dinner options and instead eat chips.

Such genes have been hard to pinpoint, in part because most animals were domesticated thousands of years ago, so it's difficult to know for sure who the true ancestors were and if they are still around for DNA comparisons.

Despite this, a small group of ornithologists and paleontologists has long argued that certain differences, such as the identity of bones in the hand, mean that dinosaurs can't be birds' true ancestors.

Melville was the true ancestor of the French New Wave.

Some scholars hold that Spike was the true ancestor of Pythonism.

Is Watson the precursor, the true ancestor, of the super-intelligence machines that futurists have long been predicting will some day be full partners, even superiors, at helping humans labor and create?

The critic's role in all this was to map the secret genealogy, uncovering the true ancestor of the belated poet, difficult to do because strong poets ingeniously masked or concealed their actual influences.

Though prototypes of the assembly line can be traced to antiquity, the true ancestor of this industrial technique could be found in the 19th-century meat-processing industry in Cincinnati, Ohio, and in Chicago, where overhead trolleys conveyed carcasses from worker to worker.