Recent Examples on the WebThe urtext of film history that inspired the careers of dozens of film historians, including this one. Scott Eyman, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2020 Starring a slick-haired Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman at her most serene, Gattaca is a deserved cult classic, a highlight in the hubristic-humans-playing-God subgenre, the urtext for any discussion of the slippery slope toward eugenics. Darryn King, WIRED, 4 May 2018 First published in 1976, this is the classic, the urtext, the model for a memoir by an angry or repentant former political official. Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Apr. 2018 The Compleat Angler Published in 1653, Izaak Walton's treatise on fly-fishing and its pleasures is widely viewed as the sport's urtext. Jon Gluck, Popular Mechanics, 19 May 2017