Sentence examples for matters of influence from inspiring English sources

Sometimes the issue concerned Sartre's originality: Were the ideas of his Being and Nothingness stolen from Beauvoir's She Came to Stay? Sometimes they concerned matters of influence: What happened in their discussions and critiques of each other's work?

In the matters of influence and strategy it's the plays that trump the poundage.

The matter of influence is important.

In the matter of influence, he is ranked with Duchamp and Pollock.

The affinity is in part no doubt a matter of influence: sophisticated and widely read, Maurice was steeped in high culture.

He knew little of Spain — he didn't actually go there until 1865 — and his emulation of Velázquez and other Spanish artists was not merely a matter of influence.

"It is a matter of influence, particularly in relation to the US," he said, "That's certainly to my mind how they currently fit in to British defence policy which Clare Short presumably subscribed to while she was still a minister".

But he frequently manages to get at the thing about jazz that transcends the matter of influences: though he might raid past players for their musical grammar, swing is personal, and Mr. Pelt wants to reveal its mystical properties, its feeling of floating.

In keeping with Ms. Brielmaier's aim for the show, the impact is not always a matter of visible influence.

Several pieces indicated that rock music is no longer a matter of casual influence but a formative foundation for some of these young composers.

This is partly a matter of poetic influence – Stevens and Rilke have been constant references – but the presiding example is probably Gertrude Stein, about whom he has written several essays.