Sentence examples for so derivative that from inspiring English sources
It's so derivative that it isn't a thriller — it's a crude, ghoulish comedy on thriller themes.
There is a mild retro feeling to much of "The 20/20 Experience," but nothing so derivative that it ruins the good parts.
The first episode was deathly dull – lots of toffs sitting around National Trust properties, mewing about how poor they are – and so derivative that even Americans are likely to see through it.
Where "The Descent" was a slow, quiet, exquisitely modulated, startlingly original film, "Doomsday" is frenetic, loud, wildly imprecise and so derivative that it doesn't so much seem to reference its antecedents as try on their famous images like a child playing dress-up.
Seitz described his discontent over the lack of innovation in the director's attempted homages of older films: "Doomsday is frenetic, loud, wildly imprecise and so derivative that it doesn't so much seem to reference its antecedents as try on their famous images like a child playing dress-up".
And so he has drilled into the musical and lyrical tropes which made Messrs Springsteen, Petty and Mellencamp into the romantic figures of their time and emerged with an inventory of clichés so egregiously derivative that all you can do with it is tick them off.
This reporter asked Sen. Shelby whether he supports prosecuting criminal bankers and regulating the very derivatives that inflicted so much damage on his home state.
He also successfully fought attempts by Brooksley Born, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in the Clinton administration, to regulate the financial derivatives that caused so much damage in the housing bubble and the 2008 economic crisis.
The private-equity deals and trades in instruments like credit derivatives that have created so much wealth are not as tangible as the products of privatised utility companies.
And, yes, he's right: The giant loss, which involved credit default swaps — the same derivatives that had done so much damage during the financial crisis — does, indeed, play into the hands of the pundits.
