Sentence examples for first influences from inspiring English sources

His first influences were very local and tribal.

"Oscar's trio was one of the very first influences on me," he said.

The idea that calculated literary difficulty is a positive feature that writers intend seems odd, but it comes with a distinguished provenance: it is associated primarily with T. S. Eliot, whom Graham counts among her first influences.

Powell has said that he was first exposed to poetry through Dudley Randall's anthology "The Black Poets".* In an interview with the_ Harvard Crimson _in 2001, Powell said that he "let it take root inside me and grow," and that black authors such as Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ntozake Shange, and Alice Walker were his first influences.

I(Heart)Music Patrick Canning and the Suffering Mothers – The Howl The first influences listed on Patrick Canning's MySpace are Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave, so it should come as no surprise that his music is dark and gloomy.

Powell has said that he was first exposed to poetry through Dudley Randall's anthology "The Black Poets".* In an interview with the Harvard Crimson in 2001, Powell said that he "let it take root inside me and grow," and that black authors such as Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ntozake Shange, and Alice Walker were his first influences.

But my first influence was Gandhi.

He was first influenced by Pieter Cornelis Boutens and Herman Gorter but soon developed along his own lines.

His first influence was Raffi, a children's musician "who plays guitar and sings folk melodies," he recalls.

The animation renaissance of the 1980 with the arrival of Channel Four and MTV, first influenced them.

What first influenced journalists in the Metro project's favor was that it was headed by E. Sreedharan.