"predecessor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Within the poem, parallelism, proportionality, dissonance and intricate array of puns involving both similitude and antithesis also give the poem greater complexity than that of its classical predecessors.
- But on comparing the miniatures of the Byzantine school generally with their classical predecessors, one has a sense of having passed from the open air into the cloister.
- Indeed, the style has been characterized as "baroque," in reference to the proliferation of ornamental details that distinguishes it from its more "classical" predecessors.
- Companions in the new series also have a more flexible tenure than their classical predecessors.
- Maranta and other 16th-century naturalists differed from their classical predecessors in allowing empirical evidence to have a direct shaping influence on their work; Maranta wrote that no one could "advance knowledge of simples .
- Shown side by side, two pieces based on the kylix, a classical Greek predecessor of the chalice, provide a striking contrast in spirit.
- For positivist criminology, as with its classical predecessor, crime was clearly a problem that begged a solution.
- To the extent that positivist criminology incorporates a realistic, manageable version of determinism, it becomes compatible with its classical predecessor.
- Officially founded in 1894, the party's classical liberal predecessors had governed Switzerland outright for most of the 19th century, and had been the guiding force behind the creation of modern Switzerland.
- Machiavelli however, along with some of his classical predecessors, saw ambition and spiritedness, and therefore war, as inevitable and part of human nature.
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