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"forebear" Definitions
  1. a person in your family who lived a long time ago

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He was cited as a major forebear of Abstract Expressionism.
Not sharing that art, I'll forebear to recount the anecdote.
Like his forebear, Perrone earned a reputation for outbursts in court.
There were plenty of other changes to distinguish it from its forebear.
The forebear of the current scheme, TLTRO I, was not quite as generous.
Contemporary Chinese rulers sometimes breathe the same strategic air as their distinguished forebear.
Pairing Bruckner's symphonies with concertos by his Austrian forebear Mozart makes musical sense.
In some oblique ways, the body of this new concept resembles that early forebear.
And, on Samhain, the Pagan forebear of Halloween, that veil is at its thinnest.
Truthiness was a pale, wan forebear of Trump's pathology, distilled in Spicer's inauguration boast.
But, most importantly, it really is an exact, real-life replica of its emoji forebear.
Set during the same period as its forebear, "After Anatevka" abounds in tsouris and darkness.
When asked if he feels like a forebear to Tinder, Conru doesn't take full responsibility.
And yet, like its agricultural forebear, it is laborious and repetitive and annoying and demanding.
Like her obvious forebear Archie Bunker, this new Roseanne can be all things to all people.
The legislature has become more autonomous and assertive compared with its forebear in the colonial era.
In defending himself against accusations of mental instability this weekend, Trump referred to his Republican forebear.
The Dot may be small in stature, but it's a potentially bigger deal than even its forebear.
A forebear of the Dutch-American Roosevelt clan, Claes Martenszen van Rosenvelt, arrived in America in 73.
The set included both deconstructions of Gillespie's repertoire and Douglas originals inspired by his famed trumpet forebear.
The next year, he transferred to the Juilliard Graduate School (likewise a forebear of today's Juilliard School).
This modern Silk Road might end up being less renowned for the spread of prosperity than its forebear.
Honoring Mr. Taylor's own forebear, the company will perform a Martha Graham work — "Diversion of Angels" — on Wednesday.
The book's clear forebear is "The Red Parts," Maggie Nelson's book about the murder of her Aunt Jane.
The cereal's forebear, Cheerios, originally called Cheerioats, was born in 1941 and has a more favorable nutrition profile.
The short length of these segments means that Ms. Warren's Native American forebear was not a recent ancestor.
She's an interwar forebear of today's manic pixie dream girls, quirky and quixotic enough to fascinate everyone around her.
Mired in traditional, instantly understandable Video Game Design, they seem more archaic than their now 20-year-old forebear.
For her next, she leads two works by her Finnish forebear Sibelius: "The Oceanides" and the visionary Fifth Symphony.
And along with many other families, they are divided over what to do about public statues of a famous forebear.
Even with explicit groping, however, the Nordic versions of "Love Island" have not matched the ratings of their British forebear.
But Spencer told BuzzFeed News that the America First Committee is "absolutely" an intellectual and political forebear for today's alt-right.
Fallout: New Vegas should have, by all accounts, been the forebear of a whole generation of smart, incisive first-person RPGs.
The creature — about 33 million years old — was, on its discovery, the earliest known common forebear of apes, monkeys and man.
In the absence of any American forebear, the building has also drawn comparisons from the worlds of science fiction and fantasy.
"Big Fish," like "The Exorcist," also has a celluloid forebear — the 2003 Tim Burton film, starring Ewan McGregor and Albert Finney.
Hotline Miami is a forebear of a whole generation of hyperviolent indie arcade-style games, and it's easy to see why.
Ms. Carter is a big influence on Ms. Horn, who delivered the tune with the same playful persuasion as her forebear.
Word of the Day : a person from whom you are descended _________ The word forebear has appeared in 22 articles on nytimes.
In hip-hop especially, artists frequently incorporate fragments of earlier songs as a kind of wink, or nod to a forebear.
If nothing else, it would shift the remake out of the shadow of the original, a remake in conversation with its forebear.
Honoring Mr. Taylor's own forebear, the company will perform a Martha Graham work — "Diversion of Angels" — for the first time, on Wednesday.
England is the mother country of the United States, and much American law is deeply rooted in that of its maternal forebear.
A descendant of a notorious serial killer wants to convince you that his infamous forebear was also a second notorious serial killer.
Not only would he have to think differently about his connection to his family's famous forebear; he might feel the shame of illegitimacy.
The philologists had a theory to explain why Sanskrit, the ancient forebear of Hindi, has closer cousins in Europe than in south India.
The song is a clear forebear for the success of Future songs like "Turn on the Lights" or "Neva End" a year later.
The populist rulers of present-day Venezuela claim Miranda as a forebear, but his hurly-burly life is a rebuke to their illiberalism.
Where his elder forebear was all twisted syntax and '70s-'80s self-help speak — actualize yourself, you must — the little guy doesn't speak.
But it's not just The Office and The Hunger Games (or, probably more accurately, The Hunger Games' much more violent Japanese forebear, Battle Royale).
Following Fire Festival's 2018 forebear, Coalchella (also organized by Schramp), an article appeared on AdAge, a publication focused on the advertising and marketing industries.
To her supporters, she is the intellectual forebear of President Donald Trump's promise to call out radical Islam by name and shun political correctness.
The Arrows of the Canadian-American League, a forebear of the American Hockey League, had played there in 1927-28 and in 1934-35.
"Divorce" is not as dewy-eyed as its forebear, not as fresh in its material, and in its first outings, not as consistently funny.
That's because the monarch is also Head of the Church of England, a Protestant Anglican church established by the royals' 16th-century forebear Henry VIII.
My trusty Pixel 2 XL, the aluminum forebear to the Pixel 3, has countless scrapes, bumps, and gashes from the times I've clumsily dropped it.
Its direct forebear, Armscor, was forced to produce nearly all of its own defense and security hardware in response to sanctions on the apartheid government.
While there is a direct line of racism and bigotry connecting Wallace's Cockman and Trump's Schlong Face, Bernstein calls out Hitler as Trump's essential forebear.
White sickle cell patients must have mixed backgrounds, they contended — a black forebear they didn't know about perhaps, or one they didn't want to mention.
Despite its good intentions, this new iteration does as its forebear did and frames the Beast's predicament as a matter of personality as much as appearance.
Though Chance the Rapper routinely defers to Kanye West as an aesthetic and spiritual forebear, the Gospel teaches that the Son and the Father are one.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency, which created the internet's forebear, ARPANET, was President Eisenhower's response to the launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union, he writes.
Like her forebear Queen Victoria (whose record reign Elizabeth passed last year) she had a specially designed military-style tunic to wear when reviewing the troops.
His 1998 version of Bioshock—with it's jagged polygons, simple music, and simple level design—looks a lot like the game's spiritual forebear System Shock 2.
Mr. Palmer even had his own logo: a multicolored umbrella that adorned his products, a forebear to Mr. Jordan's Jumpman logo and Roger Federer's RF design.
The first season of Netflix's "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" was originally made for NBC, and like its spiritual forebear "30 Rock," it was packed like a diamond.
In 1933, one of his granddaughters, Louise Heidelberg, published a translated and edited version of the notebook's contents along with a biographical sketch of her forebear.
Known as Hull-O Farms, it has been in Mr. Hull's family since his forebear, John Hull, founded it some 22010 years and seven generations ago.
Sweden's king has stepped in to drive reforms of the Swedish Academy, established in 1786 by his forebear Gustav III and of which he is the formal patron.
That lower price comes with a compromise, of course: The Switch Lite can't switch between being a handheld game console and a home game console, like its forebear.
As a figment of a man's imagination, the Mother's most important forebear is Hari of Tarkovsky's Solaris (1972), the dead wife who reappears to her husband in space.
Lens I hadn't known Donna Gottschalk's name, but for years I've had an image of her tacked to my bulletin board — a perfectly anonymous, beautifully bold lesbian forebear.
The book's title is a nod to Jane Jacobs, but its ideological and stylistic forebear is plainly "Silent Spring," that ur-classic of red-flag-raising eco-journalism.
No great director has built a career with as overt and obsessive a relation to a cinematic forebear as Brian De Palma has in regard to Alfred Hitchcock.
But on his most recent album, he chose to cover a collection of pieces associated with Nat King Cole, his hero and in many senses his closest forebear.
"Dead Hare" (1891), which kicks off the show with its suffused light and arresting, naturalistic detail, could be the handiwork of a Dutch forebear like Pieter van Noort.
The closest forebear to "Us" is Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard's ingeniously postmodern "The Cabin in the Woods", but Mr Peele's film is more likely to give you nightmares.
Unlike with Little Richard (Prince's forebear in black American androgyny), it was impossible to imagine Prince becoming a preacher as a way of renouncing his love affair with eyeliner.
So transformed, with nearly double the torque of its gasoline forebear, the Ferrari trimmed a remarkable 280 seconds per lap from its times at a Las Vegas-area racetrack.
If, through this exhibition, Gustave Moreau is being figuratively awarded a lifetime achievement award for his role as Spiritual Forebear of Modernity, it's a safe bet he'd skip this ceremony.
In this context, "Down With This Sort of Thing" can be seen as a spiritual forebear; it highlights that an act of protest can be as simple as turning up.
He said he assumed it was an image of his forebear, and only realized it was Adams a few years ago, after he started doing some research on the internet.
As the first anti-immigrant law directed at a specific nationality, the Chinese Exclusion Act is invoked by President Trump's critics as a forebear of his own policies and proclamations.
His grandchildren make a point of living a different life from that of their famous forebear, who spent his last eight years ruling the nation out of a one-bedroom apartment.
Twisting Rousseau's philosophy into the engine of the Terror, Maximilien Robespierre and other Jacobins "misunderstood the meaning and mechanics of self-government," as well as the moderation of their intellectual forebear.
Also like it's super-sale forebear, it only lasts 23 hours and new deals and door busters will launch every 29 hours throughout the day, so savvy shoppers should keep refreshing!
The book broke records when it hit bookshelves, but the reception was cool compared to its forebear, especially since it transforms Atticus Finch, a hero in American fiction, into a bigot.
JON CARAMANICA The most obvious forebear for this Janet Jackson comeback single is her 2001 hit "All for You," which was similarly breezy, and asked just as little of her voice.
The rare dark fantasy targeted at both adults and children, Age of Resistance is frequently more brutal than its forebear, which is itself frequently criticized for being too grim for kids.
Her father, Konstanty, the son of a czarist general, was of Russian, Polish and Tatar extraction, his last name derived from a forebear, Abaqa Khan, who was Genghis Khan's great-grandson.
As part of its fund-raising drive, it is offering donors a copy of the original registration form of its forebear, the Chinese Revolutionary Party, founded by Sun Yat-sen in 1914.
Instead a comparison with DNA from indigenous Peruvians, Mexicans and Colombians was used to show that it was statistically likely that she had a Native American forebear six to ten generations ago.
Like all flying creatures there is a great emphasis on lightness and simplicity, allowing this robot (like its distant forebear, Festo's bird) to flap around realistically and stay aloft for a time.
The rules adopted a few years ago at the FCC were workable only because the commission agreed to forebear the application of the most onerous Title II utility regulations on the books.
Coincidentally, Mr. Brennan, too, has a famous forebear, William J. Brennan Jr., who was an associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1956 to 1990, but with little apparent interest in farming.
And if you have indeed been following the 17-year-old Baton Rouge rapper, it may have crossed your mind that he embodies more than a passing similarity to a certain Louisiana forebear.
Like his great forebear Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Nietzsche was sensitive to the fact that progress and regress can coexist, and he worried that it is all too easy to misrepresent conformity as freedom.
Queen Elizabeth may have passed her forebear Queen Victoria's record of longevity on the throne, but there is something she can't beat — Victoria's position as the first British monarch to ever ride a train.
The relevant book about Trump's American forebear is Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man, the darkly pessimistic, daringly inventive novel—Melville's last—that could just as well have been called The Art of the Scam.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Kia LaBeija's (Untitled) The Black Act (2019), presented as part of Performance Space New York's contribution to Performa 2019, successfully spars with the legacy of its Bauhaus forebear.
They repress old gospel and blues and other crackly, hard-to-find records for new audiences, so this radio special on the French field recording label Ocora is clearly them recognizing a historical forebear.
The relevant book about Trump's American forebear is Herman Melville's 'The Confidence-Man,' the darkly pessimistic, daringly inventive novel—Melville's last—that could just as well have been called 'The Art of the Scam.
He qualified after discovering, as an amateur genealogist, that a forebear, Adam Pierce, the son of a black seaman and Dutch indentured servant, had served in the New Jersey Militia during the Revolutionary War.
The "threshold" of the title refers not only to the early phase of his career, which the show highlights, but also to his position as a forebear of contemporary art as we know it.
Currently, the vast majority of works on Mapping Paintings — which is funded by Boston University and the Kress Foundation — arrive from its Titian-centric forebear, with Cranston drawing data from catalogues and museum websites.
Anyone reading Mlinko needs a refresher course on the meanings of "craquelure" and "combinatorics" and many other words that would not be out of place in Wallace Stevens's " Harmonium ," a strong forebear of Mlinko's style.
Unlike the likes of Pele before him, football now seems incidental to his success, with the keepy-uppy gimmicks which haunted his Brazilian forebear well into his retirement almost entirely absent from Beckham's public image.
Probably the closest forebear is Will Ferrell's character Ron Burgundy, from the 2004 Adam McKay film Anchorman, who published a memoir in 2013 about a month before the release of Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.
Highlight "Chariot" gets assists from his local drill forebear Lil Durk, as well as national stars like Meek Mill and Young Thug, but it's Calboy who shines throughout the album's densely packed 31-minute runtime.
Henry S. F. Cooper Jr., who defended the environmentalist legacy of his forebear, the novelist James Fenimore Cooper, and as a writer himself reached beyond the planet to pioneer reporting on space travel, died on Jan.
Liberal meritocratic capitalism is generally associated with liberal political systems and, though redder in tooth and claw than its social-democratic forebear, is more egalitarian than classical capitalism, thanks to welfare states inherited from social democrats.
The "threshold" in the title refers not only to the early phase of his career, which the Met Breuer show highlights, but also to his position as a forebear of contemporary art as we know it.
At 8,500 square feet, the Blue Note in Rio de Janeiro will seat 350; digital renderings and floor plans suggest that it will be a densely packed single-floor space, much like its New York forebear.
Sights on the governor's mansion As Adam Laxalt eyes the Nevada governor's mansion, his relatives are now taking direct aim at why they don't want this Laxalt to be in the job their forebear once held.
The "threshold" in the title refers not only to the early phase of his career, which the Met Breuer exhibition highlights, but also to his position as a forebear of contemporary art as we know it.
Most notably, while Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) has the white trash roots and genial folksiness of Bill Clinton, his deeply repressed bisexuality presents the opposite set of problems as those encountered by his real-life forebear.
When Margaret Atwood was in her twenties, an aunt shared with her a family legend about a possible seventeenth-century forebear: Mary Webster, whose neighbors, in the Puritan town of Hadley, Massachusetts, had accused her of witchcraft.
But the thrill of exploration, or the examination of family dynamics, never feels like it arises organically from the action, in the way it might have on the show's most obvious forebear that isn't its direct predecessor: Lost.
If "Steamer" is about the stories we hear and take with us, stories that have implied conclusions, then "A Coasting Horse" acts as a sequel that plays with the composition of its forebear to describe journeys into the unknowable.
With its ability to create boutique investment products that are several degrees removed from any tangible asset, it's finance that seems like the most obvious ideological forebear of surveillance capitalism, which uses digitalization to render more of life as tradable commodities.
The essay, which was required reading in the cinema studies classes of the 1970s, argued that the movie was designed to inscribe the Lincoln of legend into the world of 19663, cast as the progressive forebear of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.
In that same decade, Ms. Vanderbilt would make a fortune to rival that of her forebear, Cornelius Vanderbilt, from bluejeans emblazoned with her name, and then lose it all when her psychiatrist and lawyer colluded to defraud her of her many lucrative licenses.
But in the wake of an alleged right-wing terror plot inside the army's ranks, and some 275 soldiers under investigation for suspected right-wing extremism, Germany's military has been forced to publicly confront its relationship with its Nazi-era forebear, the Wehrmacht.
Adding songs to turn a film into a stage musical can often yield surprising results: The 853 Broadway song-and-dance account of Mel Brooks's "The Producers," for instance, was more rounded and emotionally satisfying than its gag-driven 1967 screen forebear.
"Maybe because of the Islamic roots here, the people are warm," Reshad Strik, owner of a cafe called Ministry of Cejf on the fringes of Bascarsija, told me over a pot of Bosnian coffee, thick with a bitter sediment reminiscent of its Turkish forebear.
Renaming Congress Parkway as Ida B. Wells Drive comes as Wells's descendants are preparing to commemorate their forebear with a monument — also to be built in her adopted city, Chicago — and as the country gears up for the centennial of the 19th Amendment in 2020.
These spaces have a forebear in Fashion Moda, which from the late '70s to the early '90s functioned in the South Bronx as community space as much as gallery, giving early credence to artists like Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer, Kenny Scharf and David Wojnarowicz.
Although the world's largest tennis stadium was named for Ashe in 1997, and Gibson had gained more recognition in recent decades as a forebear to Venus and Serena Williams, relatives and former students of Johnson believed his role in their development had often been overlooked.
Providing a good idea of where her head is at these days, Del Rey, in song, also references John Lennon, Led Zeppelin, the Beach Boys, David Bowie and Crosby, Stills & Nash, while maintaining flashes of Fiona Apple and Cat Power, a spiritual forebear and recent collaborator.
George Balanchine, a big Tchaikovsky fan, is represented here as well with "Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux," from 1960, set to a lost-then-found piece of the original "Swan Lake" score, and "Mozartiana," an ode to Tchaikovsky's musical forebear, which Balanchine first choreographed in 1933. (abt.org)
I say "fictional," yet in Lileana Blain-Cruz's furiously time-warping Lincoln Center Theater production the modern black women enduring high-value, low-pay jobs for white employers were just as venturesome as their spiritual forebear, exploring the limits of the human capacity to care for others.
There were days in the 27s and 21989s when Page 33 was given over largely or entirely to ads, including those from businesses that are still familiar — like Saks & Company, the 23th Street forebear of Saks Fifth Avenue — and deservedly forgotten ones like Buffalo Lithia Water.
Providing a good idea of where her head is at these days, Del Rey, in song, also references John Lennon, Led Zeppelin, the Beach Boys, David Bowie and Crosby, Stills & Nash, while maintaining flashes of Fiona Apple and Cat Power, a spiritual forebear and recent collaborator.
" Snowstorm threatens East; Washington, Baltimore under blizzard warnings The release cites language in a giant government spending bill enacted last month that encourages USCP to "forebear enforcement" of the sledding ban in keeping with the spirit of the "family-style neighborhood that the Capitol shares with surrounding community.
During ceremonial weigh-ins that take place every few decades, when reference copies of the International Prototype Kilogram are flown in from around the world and compared to their distinguished forebear, the IPK has been found to have lost around 50 micrograms in mass, roughly equal to a single eyelash.
The aforementioned $3000 will buy you a HoloLens (I just Googled and the L is capitalized) Development Edition, which, like its VR forebear, the Oculus Rift, is designed to get the augmented reality goggles into the hands of people who can, you know, start making content and experiences for it.
On TVR's final, hidden track, "Can't Be Stopped," Jackson sings to a weary audience of black people, "The pressure seems to, to defeat you / Beat you, whenever you can't go on," which feels like a forebear to Solange's "Borderline (An Ode to Self Care)" from 2016's A Seat at the Table.
I'll forebear to quote the poem's last two-and-a-half lines; they'll reward those resourceful enough to track down the elusive chapbook itself, but here's a spoiler alert: the voice in the air does find its "listening love," and that listening could also be yours, reader, as the acrobatically tumbling syntax come to a satisfied rest.
Among the better-known works there's Susan Howe's My Emily Dickinson, which traces the works that informed Dickinson's rich interior life; Adrienne Rich's essay "Vesuvius at Home," which sees her as feminist forebear; Maureen McLane's "My Emily Dickinson" from her biblio-memoir My Poets; and Camille Paglia's essay from Sexual Personae, comparing her to the Marquis de Sade.
With ivory fetching more than $21,133 a pound, according to the conservation group Save the Elephants, poachers (often employed by criminal syndicates and sometimes armed with helicopters, night-vision goggles and automatic weapons) are slaughtering tens of thousands of elephants a year, threatening to send the world's largest land mammal the way of its forebear, the woolly mammoth.
Less recognized, even now, are the terrific small collages by Anne Ryan, a Greenwich Village poet who took up the medium late in life (she died in 1954) and managed a fusion of delicate materiality and powerful form which recommends her as a feminist forebear, though she, in her pure aestheticism, would likely have been startled at the thought.
Kia LaBeija, (Untitled) The Black Act at Performance Space New York November 7–9, 2019 Choreographed by Kia LaBeija, with Assistant Movement Director and Creative Producer, Taína Larot; co-commissioned by Performa 19 and Performance Space New York, co-produced with The Josie Club Presented as part of Performance Space New York's contribution to Performa 2019, Kia LaBeija's (Untitled) The Black Act (2019), successfully sparred with the legacy of its Bauhaus forebear.
In escalating degrees of weirdness, 2017 also offered a retrospective of John D. Graham's paintings at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York, which traced the borderline-reactionary artistic journey of a man better known as the impresario of the Abstract Expressionist movement; and, at the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) in Soho, a selection of paintings by Giorgio de Chirico's polymath younger brother, Alberto Savinio, whose clashes of style within a single work made him a Postmodernist paragon and forebear.

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