Sentence examples for which reached back from inspiring English sources

He had just released the album "Drive" (Compendia), which reached back to the blues.

But Beijing's interests there have historical roots which reach back far earlier than 1950.

The contest within a democracy between "experts" and those who decry them has a pedigree which reaches back 2,500 years.

"Tender Napalm," which was first staged in London last year and is expertly directed here by Paul Takacs, belongs to the modern tradition of elemental battle-of-the-sexes plays, which reaches back to Strindberg and runs through Pinter and Albee.

After her father died, in 2006, she embarked on this respectful, thoughtful biography, which reaches back two generations to reconstruct his past, his youth, his education, his career, his depression and his life as a husband and father.

Yet here is Joe Wright's new film, which reaches back to a story behind the story and finds Peter Levi Millerr), an orphan boy, plucked from his bed, in a sort of anti-Rapture, and hauled up into an airborne pirate ship.

"Puppet" has a lovely subtitle, "An Essay on Uncanny Life," which reaches back to Freud's essay "The Uncanny," about the eeriness of E. T. A. Hoffmann and his Olympia doll and the mad Coppelius's theft of eyes, and beyond that to Heinrich von Kleist's "On the Marionette Theater," from 1810, the mother of all puppet essays.

But, beyond the deaths along the boulevard leading to Tiananmen and then in the square, the outcome of the Beijing Spring confirmed China in a political course which reaches back into distant history, but from which, crucially, Deng Xiaoping and his elderly colleagues decided not to divert 19 years ago.

Paretsky is in full Furies mode in HARDBALL (Putnam, $26.95), which reaches back to the tumultuous summer of 1966, when Martin Luther King led civil rights marches through the Southwest Side and was met by race riots that cut through families and across generations, even spilling over into the churches.

She writes that she was "a disappointment from the minute I popped out," on account of being a girl; she comes from a family with strong aristocratic roots on her mother's side, which reach back to the Plantagenets, a bloodline peppered with earls and ladies.

Some viewers will mock his itchy-footed wanderings, but I would defend such restlessness, which reaches back, through the jet-set kitsch of the Bond pictures, through Hitchcock (who was never embarrassed by a major tourist site), all the way to "Morocco and Shanghaiai Express".