Sentence examples for too derivative of from inspiring English sources

So "Doctor Sleep" has its own vivid frightscape, one that's not too derivative of "The Shining".

On the other hand, Ms. Cullom's "Orchestration of Lines" (1998) is less successful and far too derivative of Frank Stella's cigar smoke prints.

The designs and execution of the painting are highly complex, and skillful, although to my eyes too derivative of illuminations in Hebrew manuscripts.

Music critics assailed them for being too earnest, too pompous, too attractive, too pop, too derivative of Pearl Jam or just too inescapable.

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN Seventh Ave .at 33rd St. (212-307-7171)—Sept. 14: New York's own Interpol were initially derided at the dawn of the decade for being too derivative of iconic British post-punk outfits like Joy Division.

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN Seventh Ave .at 33rd St. (212-307-7171) — Sept. 14: New York's own Interpol were initially derided at the dawn of the decade for being too derivative of iconic British post-punk outfits like Joy Division.

With few exceptions, his works are simply too derivative, unfortunately reminding one of the work of some other, more famous artist of the period.

Belcourt's menu is more ambitious than it has to be: given the room's pleasing ambience (walls of huge windows, mint-green woodwork, smoky mirrors, a few modern vases here and there, so that it doesn't all seem too derivative), the usual array of bistro favorites would have done.

For that reason, the finished song has never been my favourite piece of work, lyrically – too derivative – but it made a good musical vehicle for one of our first "extended works".

In the 1970s, literary critic Harold Bloom came up with a theory he called the anxiety of influence, which, broadly speaking, argues that poets are substantially influenced by previous works, and thus anxious of seeming too derivative.

Reaction to the Flood has varied over the years; while some found the Flood too derivative and a cliché element of science fiction, some others ranked them among the greatest villains of all time.