Sentence examples for may be derivative from inspiring English sources

The work may be derivative, but it is by no means slavish imitation.

This will seep in to your own work, which may be derivative at first but this does not matter.

So the name may be derivative, but Cadillac insists the car is not.

It may be crap, it may be derivative - Jeff Koons should probably sue - but it doesn't fall into a neat division of concept versus craft.

I doubt that, at the time, I registered the implications of "which may be derivative"; it was enough that she thought I had a future as a writer.

Pointing to the fact that the first sentence in the statutory definition omits any reference to originality, Lee insists that a work may be derivative despite the mechanical nature of the transformation.

In other types of fermentation, the end products may be derivatives of acids such as propionic, butyric, acetic, and succinic; decarboxylated materials derived from them (e.g., acetone); or compounds such as glycerol.

This suggests they may be derivatives of the allotetraploidy event and that a sorghum ancestor was the donor.

Some creditors may be offered derivative contracts that will pay them handsomely if Iraq's economic or oil-export growth is faster than expected, as has been tried in Mexico and Venezuela.

Gumbo may have been based on traditional West African or native dishes, or may be a derivative of the French dish bouillabaisse.

The name of her opponent, Teran, is local Orkney dialect meaning "furious anger", and may be a derivative of tyrren, Norse for "angry".