"ancestor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Unlike their Jewish literary ancestors, Ms. Mukherjee's people are no more tormented by conscience than butterflies.
- Sedaine may be regarded as the literary ancestor of Scribe and Dumas.
- But don't remind Lisbeth of her sunnier literary ancestor.
- He is an inveterate spinner of what Tom Sawyer, one of his literary ancestors, liked to call stretchers.
- Throughout that decade, however, the author and his most popular book were the subject of a "...re-examination, if only as a neglected literary ancestor of the moderns."
- My literary ancestors and contemporaries have written many beautiful lines on the kinds of moods that were appearing in each part of the story.
- The primary literary ancestor of The Historian, however, is Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897).
- The write-your-own-ending has distinguished literary ancestors.
- Both are forerunners of the crime novel - my literary ancestors, I suppose!
- Charlotte Brontë has been called the 'first historian of the private consciousness' and the literary ancestor of writers like Joyce and Proust.
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