Sentence examples for familiar influences from inspiring English sources

Rejecting familiar influences of the past 20 years, White joins a handful of contemporary writers who are proving that the novel has never been more alive.

Melodically, their sixth album is a gem, channelling familiar influences – Love, Simon and Garfunkel, the Byrds – into sweetly rolling psychedelia, while frontman James Skelly has never sounded so beautifully forlorn.

Continuing their gentler lineage (including their debut and 2008's Seventh Tree), familiar influences – Weimar cabaret, Britt Ekland's eerie Willow's Song from the Wicker Man soundtrack – combine intriguingly with disco-era breathy vocals.

The album's power stems from the convergence of familiar influences (Beatles, Stones, Dylan, especially Neil Young) with the traditions, languages and lyrical concerns of the Inuit, Métis and First Nations peoples.

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The relationship between self-reported anxiety symptoms and school performance is complex and results from heterogeneous interactions among several factors that include socio-economic status, familiar influences, and individual affective and cognitive profile.

Mr. Carroll's works bring to mind some familiar textbook influences: Jasper Johns, most obviously, but also Joseph Cornell, Giorgio Morandi, Frank Stella, Donald Judd and Robert Ryman.

This is of course in addition to the more familiar Picasso influences, like the art of Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin and Iberian and African sculpture, all of which are also at work here.

Tsunami-like washes of retro synths, saxophone solos and melancholic vocals clamour for attention during this double concept album, which blends familiar M83 influences (shoegaze, goth pop) and stretches them to the size of the Californian desert where it was recorded.

But López avoids the familiar mélange of influences that so many American opera composers offer — some Puccini here, some Britten there.

"Blues for Smoke," another show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, opening Oct. 21, will examine a less familiar trend: the influence of the African-American tradition of the blues on art of the past half century.