Literary notes about Influenced (AI summary)
The term “influenced” in literature is employed to express how external forces—be they ideas, individuals, environments, or events—shape human thought, behavior, or outcomes. It is often used to indicate that personal judgments or life paths are molded by factors beyond one’s immediate control, as seen when personal relationships and cultural models subtly direct one’s perceptions ([1], [2]). Authors extend its usage to demonstrate that actions and decisions may spring not only from internal resolve but also from external pressures or universal forces, from political decisions influenced by historical precedents ([3], [4]) to everyday choices swayed by chance or circumstance ([5], [6]). Whether describing the shaping of artistic sensibilities or the complex interplay between fate and personal conviction, the word encapsulates the idea that individuals and societies are continuously and often imperceptibly molded by their surroundings ([7], [8]).
- And his friendships, like his religion, influenced his judgment.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - The first, of thirty years, includes his youth and early manhood, in which time he was influenced almost exclusively by French literary models.
— from English Literature by William J. Long - The following train of ideas may well be imagined to have influenced the convention, in relation to this particular provision.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison - So far as the disposition of each towards the other may be influenced by these causes, the State governments must clearly have the advantage.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison - " Influenced by a second thought she readily obeyed.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy - The climate of Africa is mainly influenced by the fact that it lies almost entirely within the tropics.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide by Various - This was and remained the secret question which influenced all my subsequent development.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner - Hence there is at least the historical possibility of the Greeks having been influenced by Indian thought through Persia.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell
