Sentence examples for terms borrowed from from inspiring English sources

And the ferocious, watery-eyed songs depict a discombobulated kid who expresses his heartbreak in terms borrowed from bad movies.

"They didn't like my jokes," he says of the dour Northerners who were trying to teach him to speak "new" Vietnamese, full of political terms borrowed from China.

But she said the study was limited because it relied on terms borrowed from human behavior that probably failed to reflect what the dog was actually doing.

Lawmakers revised that bill to remove terms borrowed from the Arizona law that would have allowed the police to ask immigration questions based on a "reasonable suspicion" that a person they stopped was an illegal immigrant.

And the painter Clyfford Still talked about his own art in terms borrowed from "The Pilgrim's Progress," a classic literary allegory of Christian salvation that both church and Cropsey had illustrated in paintings early in their careers.

In fact Mr. Romney has mentioned China, but in military terms borrowed from cold-war debates when each in a succession of American presidents was referred to as "the leader of the free world," an expression that has disappeared from common usage.

It thereby had a "multiplier effect," a term borrowed from John Maynard Keynes.

Korea was the first of the "sending" nations (a term borrowed from global import-export economics), followed by Vietnam.

This new interest in actual political behaviour became known as "behavioralism," a term borrowed from psychology's behaviourism.

Four years ago, there were fears of a financial meltdown — a term borrowed from the nuclear power industry.

Harvests believed to be particularly special might even be deemed "grand cru," a term borrowed from winemakers.