Sentence examples for partly invented from inspiring English sources
Habara didn't know whether her stories were true, invented, or partly true and partly invented.
In some countries this sense of nationality has been inherited, as in Germany, while in the United States, Argentina, and Australia it had to be at least partly invented.
Tom of Finland's musclebound blond bikers, men in uniform and a whole closet full of leatherwear not only illustrated a sexual style, but partly invented and glamorised the look: caps, moustaches, chaps in chaps – the overt, often parodic masculinity.
And although there are only 23m Australians, communications technologies (such as Wi-Fi, which was partly invented in Australia) allow local firms to reach a global market.Australia's regulatory environment for entrepreneurs is friendly, and the country is admirably open to skilled immigration.
Confessions of an Advertising Man, by David Ogilvy (Southbank, £12.99) One advantage of switching off your gadgets more often might be that you see fewer bad commercials: today's online adverts are very far from the dense marvels of arty hawking that characterised the golden age of ads, which was partly invented by Ogilvy, a Brit in New York.
His book "The Delighted States" shoves its delirious way around and through four centuries of great novelists, tumbles them down one trapdoor and hauls them out of another; it provokes as much as evokes and, in general, sets up a dance whose music he partly finds in them and partly invents for them.
Like Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, says Mullan, 15-year-old Vernon "speaks" in an English that is partly recorded from real speech and partly poetically invented.
Like Twain's narrator, 15-year-old Vernon "speaks" in an English that is partly recorded from real speech (Pierre has lived in Texas, where Vernon has spent his life), and partly poetically invented.
After an education interrupted by the Cultural Revolution, he started in 1973 as a laborer maintaining the turbines and pushed himself up the ranks to operations director by 1996, partly by inventing new industrial techniques that caught on elsewhere in the Chinese power and steel industries.
The brassiere – the word appears during the first world war – was invented partly as a result of fears that corsets were squashing women's reproductive organs.
Really, "Tempo" seems like yet another summer group show, more elaborate and philosophical than most, befitting the Modern, with some good art and some not good art, invented partly so as not to monopolize attention during the hoopla of the opening while establishing the museum's desire to keep both abreast of the times and contemporary art in the foreground.
