Sentence examples for adapted from a classic from inspiring English sources
But best of all, those with a sweet tooth could try the one-woman opera Bon Appétit! by Lee Hoiby: adapted from a classic Julia Child cookery broadcast, it requires the singer to bake a chocolate gateau on stage.
STAR POWER The C & H jingle was adapted from a classic Hawaiian tune; the original version of the song was featured in the 1963 movie "Donovan's Reef," with John Wayne.
Jim Carrey, in effect, reprises his Scrooge turn as the star of this moderate family comedy about an uptight guy whose heart is melted, ironically, by creatures from the extreme cold; it is very freely adapted from a classic children's book.
"MY DOG IS BETTER THAN YOURS," a bilingual play in Spanish and English, adapted from a Chekhov classic, "The Marriage Proposal".
Nowadays, macho preening too often passes for the kind of feral grace radiated by Lancaster in films like "The Killers," the 1946 noir classic adapted from a Ernest Hemingway short story and directed by Robert Siodmak.
It's now a comedy classic, but it was adapted from a book called Red Alert by an RAF officer named Peter George – an entirely serious indictment of the supposedly failsafe systems designed to prevent nuclear war.
Their notion of style, built on classic haberdashery, was not so much adapted from a man's wardrobe as pilfered outright.
Adapted from a recent edition of Strategy & Innovation.
Note: Adapted from a recipe by Kim Nykanen.
Adapted from a previously published post.
