Sentence examples for adapting unlikely from inspiring English sources

Up at the Villa An experienced hand at adapting unlikely literary properties, Philip Haas ("Angels and Insects") doesn't have very good luck with a lesser novella by W. Somerset Maugham.

That was the almost insurmountable challenge facing Benedict Andrews and Andrew Upton in translating and adapting this unlikely classic, but in their hands, it slips into present day almost seamlessly.

When he returned to work, it was in an unlikely way, adapting Chekhov's short story A Misfortune for television.

Starting over at 58, he struggles to adapt until an unlikely friendship with an ex-con blossoms, helping him confront the problems he left behind.

In 1916, after attempts to join it with the larger inside lot facing 96th Street were unsuccessful, the investor Leslie R. Palmer built a 12-story apartment building adapted to its unlikely dimensions.

At first glance, adapting cold war deterrence to the campaign against terrorism would seem unlikely if not impossible.

The system, moreover, works in such a way that publishers are unlikely to adapt coverage to maximize the keyword advertising in their articles, Mr. Spanfeller said.

The 2010 book "The Roots of Obama's Rage," which argues that President Barack Obama is trying to destroy Western powers to fulfill his father's anti-colonial dreams, this year was adapted to become an unlikely film hit, "2016: Obama's America".

However, such a sophisticated close-packed collimator arrangement is unlikely to adapt itself well to newly emerging, ultra-compact nuclear medicine gamma cameras.

Amputation was perhaps the best option, says Alan Irvine, the patient's doctor at St James Hospitall, Dublin – but at her age, she was unlikely to adapt well to a prosthetic limb.

Leukocytes are unlikely to adapt to growth conditions required for OC cells.