Both their look (mod fashions and bowl-cut hairdos) and their sound borrowed from British rockers.
His inflections sound borrowed from Jack Nicholson, which at least is a change from Marlon Brando.
The music here, recorded in the 1970s, falls into two different modes: one disc of traditional Manding music, with Kouyaté singing in front of the kora player Sidikiba Diabaté, or accompanying himself on guitar; and one disc of larger groups and modern grooves, with drums, balafon, horn sections and a ropy electric-guitar sound borrowed from American surf music.
The sound system of Xhosa contains three types of click sounds borrowed from the neighbouring Khoisan languages.
But the beautiful speech sounded borrowed coming from Bush's mouth.
Regarding Mr. Malone's work as missionary, "The Choir" is self-serious and almost clinical in its narration, using a voice-over during the first cycle of episodes that sounds borrowed from a documentary on the puku antelope of Namibia.
In the show's best comic moment she instructs Iphigenia's bridesmaids about how to act properly, in a snatch of dialogue that sounds borrowed from a handbook from the modern wedding industry.
I was not much impressed by the imagination and curiosity of the experts: they used an awkward, objectifying language that sounded borrowed rather than earned, and none made the elementary connection between my competence at reading and writing and the boy's inability, or refusal.
Rouse's sax playing sometimes overblew and growled and squeaked, Monk struck the piano with vehemence, Larry Gales shuddered the upright bass with a funky swing that sounds borrowed from Booker T., and once they started, they didn't want to stop, cutting loose with three brash performances that run from eleven to almost seventeen minutes.
Consider the recently funded million-dollar "People's Garden School Pilot Program" (a moniker that sounds borrowed from the Peoples Republic of China) to fund school gardens.
Its retro sound borrows from fifties rock and soul music, highlighted by Brittany Howard's ferocious, blues-tinged rasp.
