He spent six months designing a building with sail-like roofs, their geometry, he said, derived from the sections of an orange.
The C.E.O. of Trump Hotels, Eric Danziger, described himself, winningly, as a "former bellman," mentioned that two couples had already been married in the hotel, and provided a lesson in the origin of the word "Welcome," which, he said, derived from an "old innkeeping term that means 'it is well that you come.'" The ballroom looked expansive and the bar grand; it seemed a very nice place to stay.
Franco's own sex education, he says, derived from his liberal upbringing, being raised in California in the 80s and 90s by "hippy parents".
The Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian tribes in Oklahoma have filed a federal lawsuit to protect water rights they say derived from long-ago treaties and to prevent exports of water from their traditional homelands without their permission.
The scripts for the commercials are "based on loose reality," Mr. Denari says, derived from the information gathered during the time the agency employees spent in the field with the technicians.
"Up until the 1950s, all turkeys were bronze," Kelly says, deriving from the original bird, which came over from Mexico.
"This morality, he says, derives from the injunction to "maximize the flourishing of humans and other sentient beings".
A show like The Honourable Woman, Blick says, derives from this process: years of thinking and researching, then, after pitching, six months spent "utterly grounding the story in my head.
The tensions between Mr. Obama and the Gulf states, both American and Arab diplomats say, derive from an Obama character trait: he has not built many personal relationships with foreign leaders.
Higher interest rates, he says, derive from "an explosive cocktail" in which house prices rose too high because of a freeze on property taxes and the introduction of interest-only mortgages.
Much of his perceived strength, they said, derives from an influx of Democrats from New York City over the years; Democrats now outnumber Republicans by 67,189 voters.
