Sentence examples for has lent itself from inspiring English sources

Japan has lent itself to stubborn caricature.

The character's problematic nature has lent itself to innumerable interpretations by actors and critics.

For thousands of years, gold has lent itself to ceremony and celebration.

The nature of film, however, has lent itself to a kind of realism halfway between life and fiction.

Frankenstein has lent itself to many readings since it was first published, without Shelley's name on the cover.

And Munch's frankly cartoon-like rendering has lent itself to the manipulations that gag cartooning thrives on.

The terrain had lent itself to a frontal assault on Sky, with one leg-breaking climb after another.

Division A had lent itself to a travelogue of the federal departments being stimulated, and occasional meditations on the policy subjects therein.

All of this could have lent itself to the broad and thoughtless comedy to which the big screen so often consigns the travails of modern manhood.

This custard-coloured foodstuff might have lent itself to all sorts of ribald diversions, it might be a knob gag that grows on trees, but don't be fooled.

His sinewy naturalistic style would have lent itself to Lecter's broad-shouldered intellectual swagger, but he lost interest, and Mr. Demme ended up making the film, with his own brand of self-aware, sympathetic Grand Guignol.