Sentence examples for were not inspired from inspiring English sources

Those striking prints were not inspired by Chinese robes.

It has mastered the art of rigging.Democrats in Hong Kong were not inspired.

The desperate hordes who followed the crusades and laid waste the ghettoes by fire and the sword were not inspired by doctrine, but controlled by the urge to pillage.

Although Celia Tejada, vice president of product design at Pottery Barn, knew of Coach's and Interieurs' designs, she said, "We were absolutely not influenced by Coach, and we were not inspired by Interieurs".

But Phillip A. Titzer, a portfolio manager at Edgar Lomax, an institutional money manager in Springfield, Va., with about 718,000 Polaroid shares, said that even value managers like it were not inspired by the stock's depressed price.

Having observed "Jersey Shore" on MTV and "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" on Bravo, apparently with a stenographer's pad, the creators of "Jersey Couture" were not inspired to try thematic counterprogramming.

His communications weren't inspired but they were sharper, the zingers binned, the woolly digressions trimmed.

And his words weren't inspired by a stock-option plan.

They weren't inspired by the preoccupations of Cinema 16 but, as Vogel mentions, by the New Wave.

But we would have kept it pretty straightforward if we weren't inspired by the reaction of the audience.

The refrain I kept hearing, especially among young people, was that they just weren't inspired to participate this year.