Sentence examples for it has shades from inspiring English sources
It has shades of the "Lord of the Rings," except that in the game players assembled around a table get to be the characters.
It has shades of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's famous comment that the Supreme Court will finally have "enough" female justices "when there are nine".
Many Japanese officials wince at the use of the big-brother, little-brother analogy, saying it has shades of the terminology used during the American occupation of Japan after World War II.
It has shades of 1989 when, after losing the first Test to Australia having picked a running side, the Lions changed their team and their tactics, tightening up considerably and taking a confrontational stance.
It has shades of the convenient "lone wolf" theory about it.
Gogul (sound familiar?) a new project specifically designed for safe searching and surfing for children has launched in Russia – but it has shades of China's infamous Green Dam project.
This is the rating for the app, and the more stars it has shaded, the better its quality.
These problems are largely a result of the tree's growing so large and dense with branches that it has shaded itself into unproductivity and disease-inducing dankness.
In an interview with Filmfare she explained, "The only reason, I agreed to play my character was because it had shades of grey.
Even Kate Middleton, it turns out, has shades of Lady Macbeth who knew?
Even Kate Middleton, it turns out, has shades of Lady Macbeth — who knew? Rendered on screen or even in prose, all this might have felt like a fan-fic edition of the Daily Mail.
