Sentence examples for figures that inspire from inspiring English sources

However, although their "skins" are reminiscent of Mexican and Andean tapestries, the woven figures by Philip and Hope Holtzman seem like pale, hybrid imitations of the ethnic figures that inspire them.

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Two ideas drive much of Christina Aguilera's new double album, "Back to Basics": one is that, as she states in the first song, she wants to "understand what made the soul singers and the blues figures that inspired a higher generation, the jazz makers and the groundbreakers"; the other is a recurring assertion that she has been misunderstood, and unfairly criticized.

By Sasha Frere-Jones Two ideas drive much of Christina Aguilera's new double album, "Back to Basics": one is that, as she states in the first song, she wants to "understand what made the soul singers and the blues figures that inspired a higher generation, the jazz makers and the groundbreakers"; the other is a recurring assertion that she has been misunderstood, and unfairly criticized.

The works, a series of participatory, sensory-based installations, revolve around cinematic images of cultural figures that inspired Oiticica, traced over with lines of cocaine.

This Gravettian (c. 25,000 BCE) piece from the Les Rideaux Cave in the Pyrenees is the figure that inspired Kavanagh as a child.

If nothing else, however, these early years saw Branwell as an instrumental figure that inspired his sisters to harness their own imaginations and opinions.

The incarnation of evil became the lone psycho armed with a butcher knife in John Carpenter's "Halloween" (1978), a figure that inspired a seemingly endless series of imitations, sequels and remakes.

In that text, excerpted in the Times of London, Harris narrates that at the age of 23 he traveled to Monterrey to interview Dykes Askew Simmons, at which point, he met a figure that inspired him to create Hannibal Lecter.

Mr. Dean, who, at 6 foot 5, has the imposing presence of a burly football player and is fond of wearing black tracksuits, gave a tour last month of the images that inspire him — figures like John Adams, the British preacher Charles Spurgeon, the American evangelist Dwight L. Moody, Martin Luther, the Salvation Army founder William Booth and Martin Luther King Jr.

The types of doors that inspire these names are shown in Figure 6.