Sentence examples for seemed derived from from inspiring English sources

The tactics seemed derived from those of Hafez al-Assad: his forces killed some twenty thousand people while putting down an uprising in Hama, in 1982.

The writer Dorothy Richardson (another of Wells's paramours) once complained that the women in Wells's novels all seemed derived from "one specimen carried away from some biological museum of his student days".

Neither graphic novel nor illustrated book, its composite of storytelling forms seemed derived from the storyboards of some lost Czech genius of the silent film era rather than anything evident in other books.

The austerity of selections from Bartok's "For Children" seemed derived from the first set of Inventions, but Mr. Schiff's playing of the Invention in E flat (BWV 776) no longer seemed quite so sturdy after the rollicking third section of Bartok's "Three Burlesques" (Op. 8c).

More than half of the text seems derived from broadcast interviews, I told Cardullo.

Many deities are shown, each of which seems derived from an Olmec prototype.

Some motifs have the graphic forcefulness of emblems or flags; others seem derived from letters.

These are followed by furniture designs, elegantly straightforward photographs and woodcuts that seem derived from simple doodles.

Or perhaps because of Robin Wagner's sets, which are coated in pastel colors and seem derived from gazebo architecture.

Some devote themselves to the body-sculpturing routines, filled with poses that seem derived from early modern dance, early hip-hop and Greco-Roman tableaux vivants.

The skylight seems derived from the more elegant structural tubes that pierce Toyo Ito's celebrated Sendai Mediatheque building in Japan.