Sentence examples for inspired chiefly from inspiring English sources

They were inspired chiefly by the Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin, whose work was first translated into English and published in America in 1968.

These projects were inspired chiefly by a 1946 document, "Preliminary Discussion of the Logical Design of an Electronic Digital Computing Instrument," produced by a group working under the direction of mathematician John von Neumann of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University.

He showed both his great power as a poet and the strength of his republican, anticlerical feeling in his hymn to Satan, "Inno a Satana" (1863), and in his Giambi ed epodi (1867 69; "Iambics and Epodes"), inspired chiefly by contemporary politics.

He told me that his look was chiefly inspired by Korean models he follows on Instagram.

The organization was chiefly inspired by an Egyptian reform movement, led by Muḥammad ʿAbduh, that had tried to bring the Muslim faith into harmony with modern rational thought.

The ideals of Neoclassical sculpture its emphasis on clarity of contour, on the plain ground, on not rivalling painting either in the imitation of aerial or linear perspective in relief or of flying hair and fluttering drapery in freestanding figures were chiefly inspired by theory and by Roman neo-Attic works, or indeed by Roman pseudo-Archaic art.

He was chiefly inspired by 18th-century Deism (rational belief in a transcendent Creator God) and Unitarianism (belief in God's essential oneness), but some of his writing suggests that he was also aware of the religious ideas of the Freemasons (a secret fraternity that espoused some Deistic concepts).

The book, Gores tells his deferential interlocutor (identified only as "Q"), was chiefly inspired by the Hammett scholar Richard Layman's remark that "The Maltese Falcon," serialized in 1929-30, wAmericarica's first existential novel": "I thought, yes, that's exactly right.

He also wrote poetry in both French and Spanish for literary magazines in Paris, chiefly inspired by Alphonse de Lamartine and Victor Hugo.

The album was chiefly inspired by David Bowie's Low, an experimental rock album which Reznor related to on songwriting, mood, and structures, as well as progressive rock group Pink Floyd's The Wall.

Here it served as the centerpiece of a near-seamless span that mingled works from the classical tradition with instrumental pieces derived from or inspired by Eastern cultures, chiefly Armenian.