Sentence examples for many borrowings from inspiring English sources

In this period there were many borrowings from Latin, nearly all connected with Christianization of the Germans.

The other dominant cuisine of the year was even more eclectic: New American with many borrowings from Asia and Europe.

Critics of "Star Wars" point to the film's many borrowings as evidence of Lucas's failure as a filmmaker.

A remarkably archaic form of Spanish with many borrowings from Arabic, it is known primarily from Mozarabic refrains (called kharjahs) added to Arabic and Hebrew poems.

In him we recognise, among many borrowings and echoes of other authors, Graham Greene's Querry from the novel of that title.

The first seven chapters in particular contain many borrowings from La Peyrère's Prae-Adamitae and from Book III of Leviathan (1651), by the English philosopher (and atheist) Thomas Hobbes.

Together with her age-mates, she went in for "appropriation," and there are many frank borrowings from Balanchine in her work.

Some readers may also find themselves distracted by their admiration for Riordan's many canny borrowings from the J. K. Rowling canon (itself hardly immune from debt).

One reason for these problems is that the database still contains many undetected borrowings and other errors.

That way she achieves many more poetry borrowings.

Certainly, there are best-seller lists; there are samples of library borrowings (many fewer of these in the current climate of budget cuts); there are regular publishing-industry questionnaires; there is, at any rate, earlier in the period, the evidence of Mass Observation surveys.