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Their music is very derivative of the punk fad of the 1970s.

Practically of course the distribution of any individual’s ser[242]vices will, even on this view, be unequal: as each man will obviously promote the general happiness best by rendering services to a limited number, and to some more than others: but the inequality, on the Utilitarian theory, is secondary and derivative.

It is no doubt normal to do so, and most persons are prompted to it by strong desires: but in so far as it can be said to be prescribed by Common Sense, it does not seem an independent duty, but derivative from and subordinate to the general maxims of Prudence and Benevolence.

And it may be observed, that some thinkers maintain the proposition discussed in the previous section-that Law ought to aim at securing the greatest possible Freedom for each individual-not as absolute and axiomatic, but as derivative from the[280] principle that Desert ought to be requited; on the ground that the best way of providing for the requital of Desert is to leave men as free as possible to exert themselves for the satisfaction of their own desires, and so to win each his own requital.

Whereas such a collision is absolute proof that at least one of the formulæ needs qualification: and suggests a doubt whether the correctly qualified proposition will present itself with the same self-evidence as the simpler but inadequate one; and whether we have not mistaken for an ultimate and independent axiom one that is really derivative and subordinate.

Love of Gain (reflective derivative from Appetite).

I too, find a lot of what's come out of the 1990s derivative.

I almost cringe when I write this because some of what is going on here has been underwhelming and derivative of the old world.

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But hip-hop is derivative, too.

Any good poems she did write were derivative of Hughes' style.

(The article does not adequately explain what a derivative is, but no one ever has.

" The New York Times ' Janet Maslin says the film works precisely because it is derivative--its stars, Matt Dillon and Gary Sinise, emulate the characters in The Usual Suspects , which gives them "extraordinary opportunities to preen.

" The New York Times ' Michael Kimmelman says the exhibit reflects nothing less than the state of contemporary art: derivative and self-conscious.

" Linda Winer of Newsday deems the score forgettable, "an ambitious and derivative example of the it's-so-loud-and-humorless-it-must-be-art style.

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