Sentence examples for assertion of originality from inspiring English sources

So the First Folio and the first Americans became informally twinned in a fortuitous assertion of originality.

(His assertion of originality notwithstanding, Gravy is hoping to be cast as the lead in an upcoming bio-pic about the late Notorious B.I.G., figuring that he has the looks and the background).

* * * Translator's note: Authorial assertions of "originality" may or may not be validated in circumstances of posthumous relegation, and, therefore, the translator does not predicate the translation on anyone known as "Jane Austen".

"She not only reiterates her assertion of total originality," professed pop critic Ann Powers, "but also finesses it until it's both a philosophical stance about how constructing a persona from pop-cultural sources can be an expression of a person's truth a la those drag queens Gaga sincerely admires and a bit of a feminist act".

In spite of his repeated assertion of his own originality (for instance, Machiavelli 1965, 10, 57 58), his careful attention to preexisting traditions meant that he was never fully able to escape his intellectual confines.

Barely 40,000 words long, addressed to audiences of female students in the hothouse atmosphere of interwar creativity, this became an unforgettable and passionate assertion of women's creative originality by one of the great writers of the 20th century.

It is the original kind of originality.

The former enjoys the complacency of the au courant and the lassitude of at-hand language, while the latter believes with Thoreau that "this world is but canvas to our imaginations," that the only worthy assertion of imagination occurs by way of linguistic originality wed to intellect and emotional verity.

-- with the presence of originality.

There is also a question of originality.

Nobody ever accused Hollywood of originality.