Sentence examples for it was derivative from inspiring English sources

He tried a shock-jock routine, but it was derivative.

"Because I couldn't think of anything it was derivative of".

"It was derivative and it was obvious she was a bit scared," says Rickey.

The most interesting features of Japanese medicine are the extent to which it was derivative and the rapidity with which, after a slow start, it became Westernized and scientific.

It was derivative of US rap culture, but it had an unmistakable, British sound; although it rejoiced in the transgressions of the world it came out of, it also expressed its problems.

But others, noting the success of Oprah Winfrey's O and the more modest success of AOL Time Warner's Real Simple as evidence that there was room for new publications, argued that Talk never worked because it was derivative of Vanity Fair and not original enough.

Half of "Six Cents" is wildly and mightily original; half of it is derivative, more closely derived from the images and tones of other filmmakers' work than anything in the œuvre of Swanberg or of Andrew Bujalski.

We all know it's derivative.

But it's derivative in a way that feels stale.

As a whole, it's derivative, but (mostly) enjoyable.

We get it, it's derivative, but does that make it bad?