Sentence examples for far from inventing from inspiring English sources

In "Quicksilver," far from inventing a future, Stephenson borrows his setting from the past, the late 17th and early 18th centuries in Europe and Northeastern America.

Celebrants of this year's anniversary have enjoyed pointing out the ironies of the translation: that it was commissioned to mollify the losing faction at a religious conference; that far from "inventing the language", it was written in archaic prose; and – most surprising of all – that it was made not by an individual genius but by six largely anonymous committees.

We are still so far from inventing the technology we really require for us to flourish.

And, yes, far from having invented this monstrous arrangement, Mr Blair claims to have seen its defects.

Mimi learned early on that she could take circumstances that were far from glamorous and invent her own style and path as she went along.

Far better to invent new and untested publishing technologies (Bitcoin micropayments!) and rebuild the industry from the ground up.

But lawn care was far from Budding's mind when he invented the push mower.

It invents a scenario far from the actual circumstances of Lear's death, which occurred peacefully, at his Italian villa, in 1888.

If the author intended to stray so far from the historical prototypes, why not simply invent the entire story in the first place?

Kelly locates her stags, satyrs and statues far from their European origins, in her own vividly invented place.

And yet they are as far from the command economies that Marx and Engels helped invent as they are from "greed is good" capitalism.