Sentence examples for historical borrowing from inspiring English sources

These excerpts don't give us history, but they convey a vivid sense of how history happens, of the combination of invention, evolution and historical borrowing that constitutes the life of any art form.

While this assortment may sound a bit piecemeal, the overall effect is close to magical, conveying a vivid sense of how invention, evolution and historical borrowing combine in the life of any art form.

("Gold Digger," by the way, happens to be a nice example of historical borrowing in music.

The historical society borrowed the device, a cyclotron, from the Smithsonian Institution, which has had it since 1965.

"Flemish Primitives" is a traditional art-historical term borrowed from the French that became popular after 1902 and remains in use today, especially in Dutch and German.

That has kept interest rates near historical lows, reducing borrowing costs and encouraging investors to move money out of conservative investments like bonds and into stocks.

But Margaret Atwood's elegant and erudite canter round the literary, cultural and historical aspects of borrowing, lending, owing and repaying has less to do with economics than with human nature.

In "Frances and Bernard" Ms. Bauer attempts to walk a tricky line, giving her characters enough life of their own to seem more than historical glosses, while borrowing from Lowell and O'Connor's stature so that Bernard and Frances become sufficiently formidable literary figures to carry the show.

Leavitt maintained that the parallels were the sort of real-life details that the author of a historical novel customarily borrows.

Mitchell's attempt to borrow historical pathos misfires, while he simulates the gossamer naivety of Murakami's characters - especially in his curiously asexual central romance - without ever quite managing, as the Japanese novelist does, to make them resonate.

If you know your child will be studying history next year, visit local historical sites or borrow historical books and novels from your library.