"spiritual" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Among the company were people who made records of the fauna, flora and the inhabitants of Punt, spiritual forebears of the Napoleonic scientists who wrote their Déscriptions of Egypt.
- Their publications commonly cite Joseph Marsh (1802-1863) rather than Wilson as their spiritual forebear, though Marsh's role in the formation of the group is not clearly documented.
- French Flip-Flop France, the country whose telephone-based Minitel information system was the spiritual forebear of America Online, has decided that the Internet is not really an act of American cultural aggression.
- Like their predecessors, today's Causeries members are intelligent women eager to find a place for themselves in the world, albeit one very different from that inhabited by their spiritual forebears.
- His spiritual forebears come from another world.
- Hays is almost compulsively aware of his spiritual and professional forebears.
- Another of the Fast's spiritual forebears was the gremlin on the gasoline cap of American Motors' legendarily ugly 1970's compact of the same name.
- The shrewd though illiterate peasant who has to be shown concrete evidence is the spiritual forebear of the scientist.
- One of the zuihitsu makes a mystical connection between her and one of her spiritual forebears so neat that you can almost believe the whole universe lives by words.
- Not Mark Twain but Willa Cather and O. E. Rolvaag are Eiseley's spiritual forebears.
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