Sentence examples for which he acknowledged as from inspiring English sources

In 1946 the French critic André Bazin described the history of film as a movement toward "a total and complete representation of reality," which he acknowledged as an unattainable ideal, the basis of a "myth of total cinema".

Arriving at Cambridge at the start of the second world war, he was awarded a double first in zoology after only two years before becoming a military scientist, a period which he acknowledged as being influential in the evolution of his highly focused approach to research.

William distrusted foreigners, particularly anyone French, which he acknowledged as a "prejudice".

Downey appeared as a favor to Marvel Studios, which he acknowledged as a smart move on Marvel's part, because when he was promoting his film he would also have to mention their other production.

The Native American tribes of the Southwest chose him as a "Chief of Chiefs", which he acknowledged as from "my oldest friends, the companions of my boyhood days on the Western frontier".

In 1978, he published an essay on the Op-Ed page of The Times in which he acknowledged that as an ad man, he was appalled at what television advertising had done to election campaigns.

The following day he delivered a widely praised first speech to Parliament, in which he acknowledged the Ngunnawal people as the traditional owners of the land on which the Parliament building stood, spoke of his mother's childhood experience, and thanked former prime minister Kevin Rudd for his 2008 apology to the "stolen generations".

Daily Telegraph critic Alastair Smart wrote a disparaging review in which he acknowledged Lichtenstein's reputation as a leading figure in "Pop Art's cheeky assault on the swaggering, self-important Abstract Expressionists", whose works Smart said Whaam! mimicked by its huge scale.

(Years ago, St. Aubyn acknowledged that there was a period when he was a "monster of snobbery," but, when I asked about his former reputation for unkindness, he took the question to be about unrestrained infidelity, which he acknowledged, while rephrasing the idea as people "getting burnt" around him. He then placed his wit and generosity on the other side of the scale).

He issued a statement in which he acknowledged that he had used Bosch as a consultant during his successful drug appeal.

The day after the security meeting ended, Zarif gave an interview to a German broadcaster in which he acknowledged the Holocaust and described it as a "horrifying tragedy".