Sentence examples for adaptation something from inspiring English sources

Even though I found the first half hour of the new three-parter, Mobile (ITV1), to be an all-too predictable mixture of the absurd and the tedious, albeit at the opposite end of the dramatic spectrum from the absurd tedium of a bad adaptation, something suddenly hooked me and reeled me in and I started to enjoy it.

Ms. Baer, 41, was executive vice president of production since 1998 at Columbia, where movies she oversaw — including "Adaptation," "Something's Gotta Give" and "The Pursuit of Happyness" — took in more than $1.8 billion at the box office, CBS said.

Which, just in terms of language, an adaptation is something that moves something forward.

Tony Jordan's mishmash adaptation is something new (albeit built on something very old) – making it almost inevitable that it would divide audiences.

We have trouble with evolution because we think of adaptation as something that individuals do in their lifetimes, not something a species does over generations.

Adaptation is something Mr. Ruders has done brilliantly in the past.

It's a new take on an old theme, an adaptation of something ancient to the thoroughly modern game.

Its far less pungent film adaptation is something else: a mediocre gross-out movie that barely pushes the envelope.

We knew the book was loved but sometimes it is dangerous doing an adaptation of something people imagine in a certain way.

A gradual process of mutual adaptation transforms something like an apple or a squash into a nutritious and tasty food for a hungry animal.

Both Potok's novel and Mr. Posner's adaptation have something old-fashioned about them: a high moral seriousness and an earnest intensity about matters like religion and art, faith and God, duty and calling.