Part of the sense of movement came from Mr. Flanagan's emphatic modeling, which seemed indebted to Matisse's, but was freer; the animal sometimes resembled a looping, abstract line, achieving the modernist ideal called "drawing in space".
Steve Diamond's Sharks led for much of the match, but seemed indebted to referee Dean Richards who showed only one yellow card - to replacement prop Henry Thomas - as they conceded six scrum penalties on their own five-metre line.
Even the great books that I return to, as one does to a favorite landscape, seem indebted, no matter how fugitively, to that unknown and unknowable book.
Ms. Carnegie's excursions into the tensions between material, image and process seem indebted to Gerhard Richter, Laura Owens, Lucian Freud, Jasper Johns and Michael Raedecker, which are not bad choices.
While Ms. Matalon's sculpture often seems indebted to the work of Eva Hesse, these works evoke the whispering drawings of Joseph Beuys, but in a full-bodied way.
Coordination so complex and full-bodied recalls the idioms of Bronislava Nijinska, Frederick Ashton and Twyla Tharp, yet Mr. McIntyre doesn't seem indebted to them; he seems to have arrived at his own conclusions his own way.
Half the time, Shacochis seems indebted to "The Bourne Identity" (both the Ludlum novel and the movie), and the other half to some combination of le Carré and Hemingway; the sharks eat Burnette's catch, let's just say.
Rebecca Martin Rebecca Martin's last album, "Middlehope," a collection of standards and songs by other composers, suggested a strong musical personality with an intuitive undercurrent: Ms. Martin's mannerisms didn't seem indebted to any jazz singer in particular.
Lower Manhattan Through Oct. 12 Torben Giehler is one of several young painters working in the overlap of formalist abstraction, digital cartography and photography, exploring an illusionistic style that seems indebted to Al Held (who served as éminence grise in a four-artist painting exhibition at P.S. 1 this summer that has now morphed into a large show of Mr. Held's recent work).
Kay Mellor's new BBC1 drama In The Club, about the adventures of a group of heavily pregnant women and their partners, might seem indebted to One Born Every Minute and Call the Midwife, with a helping of northern realism stirred in.
He told me that Spartz's approach seemed most indebted to Upworthy, which became famous for tantalizing viewers with headlines containing such phrases as "You Won't Believe What Happened Next".
