Sentence examples for it was indebted from inspiring English sources

It was indebted to Humboldtian science in its insistence on measurements of nature, and, according to Noah Heringman, retains a much of the "rhetoric of the sublime", which is characteristic of Romantic attitudes to landscape.

She doubted that Uptown Funk would have been anywhere near the smash it has been had the song been performed by the band she said it was indebted to – the Time, the Prince affiliates whose lineup included Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, who went on to produce and co-write huge hits for artists including Janet Jackson and Alexander O'Neal.

Before the war, Britain was a creditor; after the war, it was indebted to the United States.

Rating the song three stars out of five, Uncut reviewer Stephen Dalton wrote it was "indebted to the sky-punching peaks, grand vistas and monochrome emotions of the band's 1980s albums", deeming it a "heart-stirring anthem".

If it's indebted, it must lower expenses to pay its debts".

Once celebrated, it is indebted, loss-making and fragmented.

Namibia got involved because it is indebted to Angola.

It's indebted to Pinter's Betrayal and yet succeeds in making the subject seem freshly minted.

As it turned out, The Matrix wasn't quite Ghost in the Shell "for real", but it is indebted to it.

It is indebted to a couple of readily identifiable sources — country (as the Rolling Stones played it) and bluegrass — and the music has a pleasing crackle.

It's indebted to feminism, and to the realization that men, but not women, have long been granted a right to solitude.