fountainhead
Example Sentences
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The fountainhead of American bohemia, Greenwich Village has always departed from the straight and narrow.
From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2022
That’s when a theater kid from Compton, Calif., flew some 3,000 miles from home to begin his freshman year at “The Mecca,” what Howard students call the historically Black fountainhead of talent.
From Washington Post • May 11, 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
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
