fountainhead
Example Sentences
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The Endless, anthropomorphized personifications of human ideas, beliefs and states of being, already serves as a fountainhead of clever metaphorical narratives.
From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2022
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
The story begins with a collage, a painting, a decorated sweatshirt and the truck by the movement’s artistically gifted, personally foul fountainhead.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2018
The only fountainhead which had once been near and which had once sung loudly within him, now murmured softly in the distance.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
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