Sentence examples for surprising influences from inspiring English sources

He also sees some surprising influences of painters she admires.

Bowie's long-serving producer Tony Visconti recently spoke about the surprising influences behind the album.

He gave many interviews, sometimes revealing surprising influences, such as his devotion to the novels of Virginia Woolf.

The housey piano riff that opens Mylo Xyloto's single, "Every Teardrop is a Waterfall", meanwhile, finds Coldplay spinning surprising influences to rousing effect.

Hill described his wife as one of the few people whose comments on his work he would always listen to – "99% of the time she's right" – and introduced Hill to some diverse and surprising influences, such as the poet Frank O'Hara and the choreographer and dancer Mark Morris, whom Hill startlingly compared to Dryden.

Sometimes a family, such as the Watsons at IBM, exerts surprising influence even though its stake is tiny.

Of course, Roc Nation believes, too, that some of Boucher's new songs have a chance to succeed on the radio, which retains a surprising influence on the industry.

This helps point to the explanation as to why the French right wing possesses, if not credibility, then at least surprising influence at home and abroad.

Expectations can wield a surprising influence over the economy, able to stoke inflation and encourage consumers to spend and businesses to invest.

Johnson's argument that a transnational community of central bankers exerted significant, decisive, and surprising influence on the trajectory of central banking practices in postcommunist states is well supported by the evidence.

A slightly later, and perhaps more surprising, influence were the films of Federico Fellini, which showed him that "there was another world out there with a great variety of humankind, far more than I could imagine in North Carolina".