Sentence examples for of its influences from inspiring English sources

It never achieves the brilliance of its influences; it is never at the level of Picasso, Dali, de Chirico, Magritte, Miró, Tanguy -- but it is a manifestation of character, evidence of a mind forever active, deeply striving and ultimately unconventional.

But the band has also always been at the mercy of its influences, and it has now moved on to 80's pop music: New Order and the Cars, perhaps, from the new, bright melodies, led by bass or synthesizer.

"Defiance," however, is more than just the sum of its influences, and what it does well are things that any good cop, medical or legal show does well: The Syfy drama efficiently lays out the characters' individual and group concerns as it depicts them facing a series of knotty risks and challenges.

If it can't quite match the full-pulp heft of its influences (2012's Sinister, Hideo Nakata's J-horrors), it does something not dissimilar with its protagonist's mounting obsession, and has a genuinely unsettling manner of undercutting his – and our – certainties.

Since at least some rationing of care appears inevitable, it is important to identify the thresholds of its influences in order to minimize its negative effects on patient outcomes.

It was so aggressively done that it managed to sound vital despite the obviousness of its influences – well over a decade after the post-punk revival began, you wouldn't have thought the world needed another spiky, black-clad band clearly in thrall to Siouxsie and the Banshees – but it was hard to escape the feeling that anything that blazed that intensely probably wouldn't burn for very long.

So Britain is moving the focus of its influence elsewhere – it's about politics, rather than charity.

The direction of its influence, if it existed, would have been toward the null.

Near the peak of its influence, from 1580 to 1640, it also ruled Portugal and that country's colonial possessions in Africa and Asia.

Looking back, it seems that it also reached the apex of its influence in that decade.

It must use all of its influence to get the European Union and others to follow.