Sentence examples for it has overtones from inspiring English sources

With its lavish battle scenes all filmed on the windswept Kazakh steppes, it has overtones of foreign-language blockbusters like Nomad and Mongol.

It has overtones of Billy Bunter's midnight feasts, Hogarth prints or officers on campaign.

It is in many ways a fascinating conversation, although it has overtones of a conventional modernist-versus-primitive dichotomy.

It has overtones of "Waiting for Guffman," a 1996 film that parodies a small-town theater production.

In that sense it has overtones of new influenza outbreaks that have similar kinds of characteristics, and there it's pretty high up on the urgency list".

Just as she knew that, as soon as she got the chance, she would name a dessert wine — it has overtones of peach, pear, melon and apricot — after her daughter, Allegra.

While the case, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation v. Environmental Protection Agency, No. 02-658, presented a statutory rather than a constitutional issue, it had overtones familiar from the court's debates over the allocation of federal and state power.

The novel's title has overtones of equivocation, too.

ISLAMIC law, in many eyes, has overtones of rigid puritanism.

And this time, his statement has overtones of something bigger.

"This has overtones that are really, really nasty".