fountainhead
Example Sentences
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Though he balked his first fiddle contest, he kept trying, even joining Monroe, the bluegrass fountainhead, onstage at age 9.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
It would mean acknowledging that Aryans or their Vedic culture were not the singular fountainhead of Indian civilisation and that its earliest sources lay elsewhere.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2018
Such is the response, in swift summary, of most of the art historians who have written about “Olympia,” a fountainhead of modern art and a painting as enigmatic as it is arresting.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2018
Those guys, to me, were like the fountainhead of everything that I did, you know from the time I was a little kid I was obsessed with Laurel and Hardy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2018
I think that nowhere is the black continent’s wealth and the natural beauty of its people richer than in Ghana, which is so proudly the very fountainhead of Pan-Africanism.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
