Sentence examples for obviously modeled on from inspiring English sources

One quartet of Joffrey Ballet School female students at the barre, obviously modeled on Degas's studies, is so unspontaneous as to be irksomely cute.

The beginning of the work, in particular, is awash in chorales, fugues, agitated crowd scenes and narratives obviously modeled on Bach.

The Adulateur (1772) foretold the War of Revolution through the actions of Rapatio, a haughty, imperious official obviously modeled on Massachusetts's royal governor, Thomas Hutchinson.

There have been some grumbles in the industry that Mr. Porter's visual style was too obviously modeled on Fantastic Man magazine, and that the U.K.-based Net-a-Porter does not seem to promote British designers in particular.

When Peter Gent, a wide receiver who had a stormy relationship with the Cowboys, wrote the novel "North Dallas Forty," the quarterback character, Seth Maxwell -- obviously modeled on Meredith -- was a wise-cracking but ultimately heroic figure.

The "Sanctuary" in which Zelda hides during the first act is quite obviously modeled on the Christian chapel, with rows of pews, stained glass windows, a raised chancel and altar, but it contains no overt religious symbols, and the dialogue of characters within it was simplified to remove any religious implication.

He was staring right at me, pointing all his fingers, obviously modelled on some naughty, centuries-old Venetian child.

Bource's cue can be heard on the soundtrack CD; it's obviously modelled on "Vertigo," but it surges handsomely and dovetails more clearly with the images.

He arrives in Vice City – an oceanside metropolis obviously modelled on the Miami of 1986 or so – only to be double-crossed during a coke deal.

He wrote a school play in which Christ came down from the Cross but was nailed up again by a group of characters who were obviously modelled on certain local people.

Trost was back in his more familiar guise after the interval in a performance of Mozart's mysteriously unfinished opera Zaide, a work that contains two melodramas of its own, obviously modelled on Benda.