Sentence examples for most obvious influences from inspiring English sources

The Puppies are never less than enthralling, but they are starting to stray dangerously close to an all-out apeing of their most obvious influences - PJ Harvey, Nick Cave - where they once brought rather more of themselves to the mix.

Like E. M. Forster, who, along with Virginia Woolf, is one of Taylor's most obvious influences, she relies on seemingly arbitrary events casual deaths, unexpected coincidences to suggest the confusion and disorder underneath the surface of everyday life.

Like its two most obvious influences, Franzen's The Corrections and Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, F isn't a comedy in the traditional sense: it jumps between genres, toying with melodrama here, riffing on the gothic horror story there.

One of the most obvious influences is the practice of exegesis – that is the close and critical reading of the Bible or other texts to try and understand their true meaning.

Considering how much it owes to its two most obvious influences, it's neither as repulsively materialist as the Sex & The City films nor as unsure of itself as the Bridget Jones ones.

Like E. M. Forster, who, along with Virginia Woolf, is one of Taylor's most obvious influences, she relies on seemingly arbitrary events — casual deaths, unexpected coincidences — to suggest the confusion and disorder underneath the surface of everyday life.

The most obvious influence is the painting of Ross Bleckner.

Short's most obvious influence is John Ashbery, and like Wallace Stevens, he explores questions of subjectivity and meaning.

Like her most obvious influence, Vuillard, she worked a fine balance between vibrantly patterned surface and evocative domestic space (Johnson).

Like many writers, I have been influenced by more writers than I can name, though my most obvious influence is perhaps Grace Paley.

Knight is the most obvious influence on Krzyzewski's career and coaching methods, but by no means the most important; his wife has long been that.