Sentence examples for something of a blend from inspiring English sources

The offering appears to be something of a blend of the software as a service, or SaaS, business of companies like Salesforce.com and NetSuite, and the mobile app stores popularized by Apple and Google.

Orson Welles, though in many ways a more conspicuously innovative and vertiginously reflexive filmmaker, is also a more classical filmmaker: he is a Shakespearean figure, and his films are something of a blend of Shakespeare, radio, and Cubism.

In one of his preliminary outlines for the film "Passion," from 1982 — a version in which he imagined the film as something of a blend of Jean Renoir's "Toni" and an American film noir such as "Fallen Angel" or "Criss Cross" — he planned to show a Polish immigrant being killed by a stray police bullet.

Godard later offered, as a paradigm for the cinema, "seeing the invisible". In one of his preliminary outlines for the film "Passion," from 1982 a version in which he imagined the film as something of a blend of Jean Renoir's "Toni" and an American film noir such as "Fallen Angel" or "Criss Cross"—he planned to show a Polish immigrant being killed by a stray police bullet.

Each room also features a print by Stephen Hayes who was just awarded the 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship this year called "Angle of Repose". It's ostensibly a landscape oil painting, but something of a blend of representation and sheer abstraction?

Her style offers something of a forerunning blend of Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford, with the terrifying intensity of her performance matching an impenetrable and implacable mystery; her sense of physical command seems nonetheless wildly spontaneous; her dramatic expressivity appears painfully impulsive.

Great acting is always, almost by definition, something of a mystery, a blend of technique and instinct for which no identifiable formula exists.

That certain something-something comes from a blend of 27 herbs and spices that a monk named Dom Bernardo Vincelli distilled in 1510 at a Bénédictine monastery in Fécamp, France, in Normandy.

The music is something else, a blend of her familiar deep-lunged torch singing with a thundering bass containing a heavy dubstep influence amidst the opening Haunted, segueing through an unearthly, Invasion of the Body Snatchers screech into Drunk in Love.

But in the Villa NM, the first project his Amsterdam-based firm, UNStudio, has completed in the United States, van Berkel combines this intellectual rigor with something new: a blend of play and eroticism that is a welcome relief from the puritanical tone that has infected the world of contemporary high culture.

The Klingon language, developed by a linguistic specialist for the Star Trek movies, lacked the beloved Shakespearean sonorities, sounding something like a blend of Croatian and a painful head cold.