Sentence examples for with borrowings from inspiring English sources

Jay T. Jenkins, director of Jetté, focuses on jazz dance with borrowings from other idioms.

His serial technique was eclectic, mixed with borrowings from jazz and a genuinely vocal lyricism.

Women, some of them married, panted after him, and he returned the favor, along with borrowings from Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

It's a bit derivative, with borrowings from a handful of other films, but there are some nasty moments.

Plutarch's philosophy was eclectic, with borrowings from the Stoics, the Pythagoreans, and the Peripatetics (but not the Epicureans) grouped around a core of Platonism.

By comparison Endemol, the production house behind Big Brother where Toumazis was chief commercial officer, is saddled with borrowings of around 10 times earnings.

Philologists have had a field day with his borrowings, beginning with the roster of dwarfs that accompany Bilbo Baggins, which Tolkien lifted directly from a tenth-century poem in the Poetic Edda, a collection of Icelandic verse.

Transglobal Underground announces its agenda with its name; it is an English band with members from India and South Africa, and it mingles electronic rhythms with international borrowings, utopian sentiments and a little too much talk-singing from its leaders.

The vocabulary of Modern English is approximately a quarter Germanic (Old English, Scandinavian, Dutch, German) and two-thirds Italic or Romance (especially Latin, French, Spanish, Italian), with copious and increasing importations from Greek in science and technology and with considerable borrowings from more than 300 other languages.

Often this has been financed with large borrowings.

Miners with heavy borrowings, such as Xstrata, have been punished by investors.