In Marco Polo and the Sleeping Beauty, co-written with Grania Davis, the background of Marco Polo's travels in the Mongol Empire is borrowed for an original story.

The cubists, dadaists, Stravinsky, and many later art movements struggled against this conception that beauty was central to the definition of art, with such success that, according to Danto, " Beauty had disappeared not only from the advanced art of the 1960 ’ s but from the advanced philosophy of art of that decade as well.

* Fauna, a fictional character from Disney's Sleeping Beauty

In particular, variations of " Chinsagu No Hana " ( from Beauty ) and " Bibo No Aozora " ( from 1996 ) provide the poignant closing pieces for Sue Brooks's Japanese Story ( 2003 ) and Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel ( 2006 ), respectively.

* Japanese Story ( 2003 ) – featuring " Chinsagu No Hana " ( from Beauty )

As a result the first DNA transposon used as a tool for genetic purposes, the Sleeping Beauty transposon system, was a Tc1 / mariner-like transposon that was resurrected from a long evolutionary sleep.

A late entry by amateur architect William Thornton was submitted on January 31, 1793, to much praise for its " Grandeur, Simplicity, and Beauty " by Washington, along with praise from Jefferson.

* Aurora ( Disney ), the title character from the Disney film Sleeping Beauty

During the 90s, many releases included recordings of classical compositions: Pictures at an Exhibition ( on Turn of the Tides ), Largo ( from Xerxes ) ( on Tyranny of Beauty ), Symphony in A Minor ( by J. S. Bach ), and Concerto in A Major / Adagio ( by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ) ( both on Ambient Monkeys ).

The Brothers Grimm rejected several tales for their collection, though told orally to them by Germans, because the tales derived from Perrault, and they concluded they were thereby French and not German tales ; an oral version of Bluebeard was thus rejected, and the tale of Briar Rose, clearly related to Perrault's Sleeping Beauty, was included only because Jacob Grimm convinced his brother that the figure of Brynhildr, from much earlier Norse mythology, proved that the sleeping princess was authentically Germanic folklore.

This consideration of whether to keep Sleeping Beauty reflected a belief common among folklorists of the 19th century: that the folk tradition preserved fairy tales in forms from pre-history except when " contaminated " by such literary forms, leading people to tell inauthentic tales.

Little Briar-Rose appears to stem from Perrault's Sleeping Beauty, as the Grimms ' tale appears to be the only independent German variant.

Mendes called American Beauty a rites of passage film about imprisonment and escape from imprisonment.

American Beauty follows a traditional narrative structure, only deviating with the displaced opening scene of Jane and Ricky from the middle of the story.

Ball did not expect to sell the script, believing it would act as more of a calling card, but American Beauty drew interest from several production bodies.

Ball remained involved throughout production ; he had signed a television show development deal, so had to get permission from his producers to take a year off to be close to American Beauty.

Turan suggested that American Beauty may have benefited from Mendes ' inexperience, as his " anything's possible daring " made him attempt beats that more seasoned directors might have avoided.

In September 2008, Empire named American Beauty the 96th " Greatest Movie of All Time " after a poll of 10, 000 readers, 150 filmmakers and 50 film critics, the 3rd highest ranked movie from 1999 ( behind Fight Club and The Matrix ).

* The Religion of Beauty: Selections from the Aesthetes ( 1950 ) anthology, editor

Beauty is utility, developed in a a manner to which the eye is accustomed by habit, in so far as this development does not detract from its quality of usefullness.

His expressive execution of a pas de deux from The Sleeping Beauty ( Tchaikovsky ) was a tremendous success ; in 1910 he performed in Giselle, and Fokine's ballets Carnaval and Scheherazade ( based on the orchestral suite by Rimsky-Korsakov ).

* Prince Phillip, a character from Disney's 1959 film Sleeping Beauty

Shakespeare did not usually invent the incidents in his plays, but borrowed them from old stories, ballads, and plays, wove them together, and then breathed into them his spark of life.

Again the student of evolutionary biology will find a fascinating, if to our minds grotesque, anticipation of the theory of chance variations and the natural elimination of the unfit in Lucretius, who in turn seems to have borrowed the concept from the philosopher Empedocles.

If he borrowed money from Shakespeare or with his help, he would now have been able to repay the loan.

Now, driving the horse and sulky borrowed from Mynheer Schuyler, he felt as if every bone was topped by burning oil and that every muscle was ready to dissolve into jelly and leave his big body helpless and unable to move.

The amount which may be borrowed from the SBA depends on how much is required to carry out the intended purpose of the loan.

Moreover, the most artistically successful of the nonfiction films have invariably borrowed the narrative form from the fiction feature.

To learn technical military terms, Lincoln borrowed and studied Henry Halleck's book, Elements of Military Art and Science from the Library of Congress.

After the war, enough British and American anthropologists borrowed ideas and methodological approaches from one another that some began to speak of them collectively as ' sociocultural ' anthropology.

" What the West borrowed from the Middle East ", in Savory, R. M.

The use of the word abacus dates before 1387 AD, when a Middle English work borrowed the word from Latin to describe a sandboard abacus.

They feature many letters that appear to have been borrowed from or influenced by the Greek alphabet and the Hebrew alphabet.

The pronunciation of a language often evolves independently of its writing system, and writing systems have been borrowed for languages they were not designed for, so the degree to which letters of an alphabet correspond to phonemes of a language varies greatly from one language to another and even within a single language.

For example, the spelling of the Thai word for " beer " retains a letter for the final consonant " r " present in the English word it was borrowed from, but silences it.

" English borrowed the word from Spanish in the early 18th century.

The name Ardipithecus ramidus stems mostly from the Afar language, in which Ardi means " ground / floor " ( borrowed from the Semitic root in either Amharic or Arabic ) and ramid means " root ".

There is no documented evidence for this theory, however, and, the word liti was probably borrowed from 16th-18th century writings in Latin, where the word lituus could describe various wind instruments, such as the horn, the crumhorn, or the cornett.

" Amazing Grace " was one of many hymns that punctuated fervent sermons, although the contemporary style used a refrain, borrowed from other hymns, that employed simplicity and repetition such as:

Agathon introduced certain innovations into the Greek theater: Aristotle tells us in the Poetics that the characters and plot of his Anthos were original and not, following Athenian dramatic orthodoxy, borrowed from mythological subjects.

It was said that he also borrowed from Eubulus and many other playwrights in some of his plays.

Individuals who survived to this, the latest and highest stage of evolutionary progress would be “ those in whom the power of self-preservation is the greatest — are the select of their generation .” Moreover, Spencer perceived governmental authority as borrowed from the people to perform the transitory aims of establishing social cohesion, insurance of rights, and security.

Along with tarot divination, astrology is one of the core studies of Western esotericism, and as such has influenced systems of magical belief not only among Western esotericists and Hermeticists, but also belief systems such as Wicca that have borrowed from or been influenced by the Western esoteric tradition.

Robert Castleden suggests Plato may have borrowed his title from Hellanicus, and that Hellanicus may have based his work on an earlier work on Atlantis.

Shanty repertoire borrowed from the contemporary popular music enjoyed by sailors, including minstrel music, popular marches, and land-based folk songs, which were adapted to suit musical forms matching the various labor tasks required to operate a sailing ship.