The phrase "adapting him" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the process of modifying or adjusting someone to fit a particular situation or environment.
Example: "The coach focused on adapting him to the new training regimen to enhance his performance."
Alternatives: "adjusting him" or "modifying him".
There have been "humanist" devotees of Jesus, modernist adapters of the truth about the Christ; but even in the act of adapting him to humanist concepts in their day they have contributed to the debate of the essence of Christianity and brought it back to the issues of monotheism and a way of salvation.
One thing Shakespeare certainly never did is what all the novelists adapting him for Hogarth must have done, and that is worry at length about whether or not it would be an interesting artistic challenge to adapt a classic.
The Crying of Lot 49 (also set in California and modelled on Chandler, also very funny) might tempt other directors now Anderson has shown adapting him can work, but don't expect to see Gravity's Rainbow on screen any time soon.
"The current authorities don't adapt him, or they are not clever enough.
Forming our cognitive activity, our perception and thinking, "[c]ognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge" (1935a, IV.2).
At best, you adapt him and you hew as closely as possible to his lyricism of the strange.
To those of us who have watched the film, it is impossible to imagine anyone else as Yoni, and Riklis made it his mission to "really take him, discover his sensibility and adapt him a little bit to being an Israeli..
This system does not want to dictate to the neurologist but rather learn from him to adapt him to save his time.
Streep made her comments during an awards presentation to Emma Thompson, who starred in Saving Mr Banks, the story of how Walt Disney persuaded PL Travers to let him adapt her book Mary Poppins into a film.
