source of inspiration
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsourceandinspiration
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source
noun[C]
uk/sɔːs/us/sɔːrs/
the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause ...
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inspiration
noun
uk/ˌɪn.spɪˈreɪ.ʃən/us/ˌɪn.spəˈreɪ.ʃən/
someone or something that gives you ideas for ...
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(Definition ofsourceandinspirationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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At the same time it was an effectivesourceofinspirationfor the generation of electronically transformed and synthesised sounds.
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Thesourceofinspirationis not hard to decipher: frequently recurring tutti pizzicato strumming figures conjure up images of water lapping the sides of gondolas.
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Our friendly discussions have always been asourceofinspiration.
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Onesourceofinspirationand imitation for all pupils, wealthy and poor, was the school's teaching staff.
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Recently, there has been an increased idealist orientation within the group, with structuralist ideas as a majorsourceofinspiration.
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Their images of the past can be both asourceofinspirationand a basis for debate for archaeologists and medieval historians now.
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That particular environment was a fundamentalsourceofinspiration.
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Now the tape was asourceofinspirationrather than a confining structure.
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At the same time, however, the contributions in this volume may be viewed as a welcomesourceofinspiration.
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We proposed development in contrast to the classical modular approach, not only as asourceofinspiration, but rather, as a possible design alternative.
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This could be asourceofinspirationfor teachers who want to increase their repertoire of exercises for their lessons.
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So you conceive of these traditional interpretative schemes as a hindrance rather than as a heuristically invaluablesourceofinspiration?
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In the process, the triad of revolutionary documents remained as asourceofinspiration, but decreasingly as a working constitution.
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Some students see death as a paradox that appears simultaneously as asourceofinspirationand despair, timely and untimely, personal and impersonal.
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It also suggests that for the time being we have to be pluralistic and should treat internalization as asourceofinspirationrather than as an irrefutable theory.
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The mainsourceofinspirationfor this exercise is the real-world experience of constitutional democracies, where laws take time to be deliberated upon, to be passed and to be implemented.
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If, on the other hand, his main subject were music, the spiritual quest could easily get limited to serving as asourceofinspirationto musical composition.
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Ledrappier's argument was the mainsourceofinspirationfor the present paper.
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