Sentence examples for adopted something of from inspiring English sources

Despite the fact that he has worked in three- and four-star kitchens, McBride has adopted something of a bruiser look.

He seems to have successfully unburdened himself of any Lord Percy baggage, and adopted something of David Cameron for the role.

The Seminoles have also adopted something of a siege mentality -- they have symbolically circled the wagons, not wanting to disappoint the players who came before them.

The Thai kings also adopted something of the personal funeral cult of Khmer Angkor (see below Cambodia and Vietnam), for a custom grew of building bell-shaped brick stupas which had earlier been used only for the relics of Buddhist saints as the kings' tombs, each approached by a colonnaded hall and surrounded by smaller stupas or shrines.

In his later court portraits, Velázquez was to adopt something of the more elaborate decor and richer colouring of the Flemish Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens (1577 1640), whom he met during the latter's second visit to the Spanish court in 1628.

"Deidamia" is the last of Handel's 39 Italian operas and, like its immediate predecessors, it adopts something of a lighthearted tone, possibly to counter competition from works like John Gay's "Beggar's Opera".

Adopting something of the soap-operatic structure of Pedro Almodovar movies, "A Civilized People" dwells on a dozen or so characters whose lives are variously battered and twisted by the war.

The albums Fusion, Thesis and Free Fall were made for Verve and Columbia, the group adopting something of the intuitive, one-touch responsiveness of the Coleman band - but it was a commercial disaster.

In describing these sorts of errors, Malebranche adopts something of an associationist psychology, and his analysis foreshadows Hume's analysis of prejudices.

Callenbach's Ecotopia adopts something of an anarchic socialism; the cities of the real ecotopia have tended toward ever greater class bifurcation.

And, secondly, Philo's student Cicero adopted something like a mitigatedly skeptical version of this approach both in his personal life (see Griffin 1989) and in his philosophical works on ethics (see Schofield 2002).