Sentence examples for towering influence from inspiring English sources
The late Joe Zawinul, co-founder of fusion pioneers Weather Report, remains a towering influence in contemporary jazz.
In a festival that otherwise gave relatively short shrift to Sibelius's towering influence on composers who followed him, here was striking evidence of his impact.
Geoffrey Goodman writes: My friend Denis Forman had a towering influence – notably, of course, in his magnificent work with the Bernsteins in guiding Granada TV into what became Britain's outstanding channel for television journalism.
From the towering influence of Petr Cech in goal, through their English-born spine of John Terry and Frank Lampard - who led afterwards what amounted virtually to a lap of honour - to the inventive Damien Duff wide on the left, they have been mean in defence, a mixture of moody and magnificent farther forward.
It's one of thirty-one works in which the Austrian composer distilled his musical inheritance an odd combination of post-Wagnerian Romanticism and medieval polyphony into a bracing new style of crystalline compression that exerted a towering influence over modern composition after the Second World War.
Jones has the quality and confidence to be an England regular for years to come, but he was caught out positionally a couple of times as might be expected, could count himself lucky not to have conceded a penalty and was simply a member of a generally unconvincing back line rather than a towering influence.
Can tall towers influence the incidence of lightning in the area where the tower is situated?
The dearth of information about the formative influences on towering biblical figures such as Moses and Jesus has invited some skeptics to question whether they actually existed.
Daft Punk's influence towers over the French touch.
His work betrays the influence of two towering 20th century conceptualists, Duchamp and John Cage.
The London Symphony's success is considered even more impressive because the orchestra has remained at the Barbican, a sprawling gray concrete apartment and arts complex influenced by the towering designs of Le Corbusier.
