Sentence examples for a primary inspiration from inspiring English sources
One strand of Mr. Friedman's songwriting owes to Liz Swados, a primary inspiration, and is unrhymed, talky, and streetwise.
Almost every city we visit has an old industrial area, and since such places are a primary inspiration for my work, a sightseeing trip and a visit to a salvage shop is always in order.
Once again we hear about his frustrating pursuit of young men, who withdrew from his suffocating need for control (the most notable, perhaps, being the mechanic Alfred Agostinelli, who became a primary inspiration for the character Albertine).
Who would imagine that the steady, mildly wistful voice of Karen Carpenter would be anybody's muse, much less a primary inspiration for a supple Scottish tenor with Broadway credentials?
The Balanchinian model holds the music sacred: the dance is there to incarnate the sound, to manifest it in a different form, and most ballet choreographers still treat the score as a primary inspiration.
He fared less well in the following century: his book, banned in France by a zealous church for whom doubt was now devilish, became a primary inspiration for English writers as diverse as Laurence Sterne, Isaac Walton, Alexander Pope and William Hazlitt.
Bing Crosby, his primary inspiration to become a crooner, Mr. Kaplan writes, possessed a "matchlessly rich baritone" that was "simultaneously romantic and (ever so slightly) ironic" and adds, "While Bing's power was his cool warmth, Frank's was his unabashed heat".
King Kong eventually became his favorite film and was the primary inspiration for his decision to become a filmmaker as a teenager.
But the character's primary inspiration emerged from Gracie Hansen, a Pacific Northwest burlesque legend.
The drummer, Linda McDonald points to Iron Maiden's "Maiden Japan," an EP recorded in 1981, as her primary inspiration.
But in modern times Lewis Carroll's achievements have been overshadowed by the widely held conviction that his primary inspiration, literary and artistic, was an unsavory obsession with little girls.
