It wears its influences and mannerisms like a shapeless garment: an unstructured suit.
While the effect of shape is small at low particle concentrations, it signifies its influences as the concentration increases.
It also has its influences in business (Geckil and Anderson 2009).
And it's proud to wear its influences on its sleeve.
It's a play that wears it heart on its sleeve and its influences on its lapel.
It is the sum of all its influences: of Chinese, Indian, Thai and a few other traditions besides.
But it was a voice that wore its influences well, and ironically proved both arresting and addictive.
It's a film that wears its influences on its sleeve: this "big ol' story", as Nichols calls it, is Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn rewritten for modern times.
It is an intriguing confection of a movie, announcing its influences candidly, but exerting its originality too.
"For an act that's been around as long as it has, and that so few seem to know about, its influences are still, I think, relevant," Ohr said.
Of course, Slobodkina's art was not without its influences.
