Sentence examples for it's descended from inspiring English sources

If "Codex" can trace its parentage on one side to self-referential writers like Laurence Sterne or Borges, on the other side it's descended from the computer game Tomb Raider and its movie versions, the Lara Croft series.

He parries, modestly: "I guess it's descended from that line that begins with Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, which is where we'd be eating if I were in Berkeley".

It's descended into pure "This thing?

This relies on however laborious it's descending, of course, and how wet you want everything else to look.

ABC also had a radio network (it was descended from NBC's Blue Network) from which to draw talent, radio profits to subsidize television, and affiliate loyalty.

The leading hypothesis for H. floresiensis's origins is that it was descended from H. erectus, says Brown.

It is descended from Bilsesche Kapelle ("Bilse's Band"), formed in 1862 and directed by Benjamin Bilse, the court music director.

It is descended from the Arabian greyhound and a collielike Russian sheepdog.

Cloning mice is nothing new, but this one and 26 like it are descended from what are known as induced pluripotent stem cells.

Older than living memory, this tree or the one it is descended from, is as full of secrets as it is berries.

The dog resembles the rough-coated collie but in miniature, and like the collie it is descended from an old breed of Scottish working dog.