Sentence examples for bit derivative from inspiring English sources

It's a bit derivative, with borrowings from a handful of other films, but there are some nasty moments.

It is a visually compelling and narratively complex (if a bit derivative) take on the small-town crime genre.

When a band like Coldplay or Travis came along, there was a feeling of 'why don't we just do that again?' It became a bit derivative, a bit bland.

Looking just a tiny bit derivative, it features a brave, independent, profusely red-headed Scottish lass called Merida, whose mother arranges to give her hand in marriage to the winner of an archery contest.

Mindhorn is built on a teetering tower of self-aware showbiz failure whose flavour will be familiar to any connoisseur of British TV comedy from the past 10 or 15 years; it is a little bit derivative – and, inevitably, the comedy is mostly frontloaded into its premise and opening act.

However, Sprinkles is the first to really aim young, with an app that's a bit derivative in terms of its inspiration (decorate your photos!), but also cleverly aggregates a lot of the silly but fun technology Microsoft before showcased only in its standalone side projects.

Methods: Based on BIT key intermediates (Fig. 1a), a small series of novel fluorinated BIT derivatives was successfully prepared (overall in 7-10 steps) and the affinities towards PDE2A and other PDE subtypes were estimated.

But on the other hand they do seem different: the lump of clay is older than the statue, for example, and perhaps it makes sense to describe the statue as 'well-made' or as 'yet another derivative bit of art-as-therapy', while the lump of clay is neither well-made nor derivative: it was just dug out of the garden.

Because the bit value is derivative of the service quality, we can obtain the continuous approximation of the bit value as y ^ s, x = ∂ Y ^ s, x ∂ x = ∑ i = 1 N s − 1 β s, i − β s, i + 1 ζ ^ x, X s, i + β s, N s ζ ^ x, X s, N s.

I bet it's something really unremarkable, like 17. It's a bit like the derivatives market, social media: engrossing, totally unproductive, and not related to real life in any way, unless something goes horribly wrong.

Leonardo, Lester argues, is "every bit as medieval and derivative as he is modern and visionary".