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It’s an intriguing addition to the canon, but for mere mortals who haven’t survived abusive, plagiaristic and mystifying advisors to earn Oxbridge degrees — or even just bad bosses — it might be unrelatable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
Aged seven, she repurposed a melody from a kids' TV show and passed it off as her own, a sort-of plagiaristic first venture into writing.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2024
It’s troubling, of course, to be reminded that the rewards for creativity are often misallocated — particularly in today’s plagiaristic world of social media, with its immense powers of narrative acceleration.
From Nature ● Oct. 22, 2019
How can a band so slavishly derivative — and sometimes downright plagiaristic — be simultaneously considered so innovative and influential?
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2018
Barres imitates Manship with impunity; I’d like to have a plagiaristic try at Sorolla and Zuloaga, if Dulcie says the word.
From The Moonlit Way by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
