Sentence examples for based his plot from inspiring English sources

He breezily replied that he would probably have based his plot on Gorky.

Smith again bases his plot on real events, this time the lead-up to the 1956 uprising in Hungary.

Though basing his plot on contemporary events of great political importance and giving realistic descriptions of Turkish and Polish settings, Gundulić nevertheless follows the conventions of the chivalrous epic by incorporating supernatural forces, love interests related to women warriors, and pastoral episodes.

Mr. Lender said that he had consciously based his novel's insider-trading plot on the real-life travails of Mr. Milken and Ivan Boesky, the central figures in the 1980s insider trading ring.

Another movie climax, this time in Marvel's comicbook universe, where Magneto has an eye for symbolism as he chooses Liberty Island as a base for his plot to turn the world's leaders into mutants.

And it was in one these that Mr. Wade, who is director of Positive Education Achievement through a Correct Environment, a group based in Brooklyn, was hatching his plot, mixing orange peels and detergent into a cupful of water.

Homer's flashbacks to his childhood were based on the plot of the film Stand By Me, which in turn is based on Stephen King's novella The Body.

Last season it based a plot line on the Pat Tillman scandal.

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I based the plot on the few details we know about the painting: that Vermeer had a large household, that he had different women wear his wife's clothes in various works, that he painted slowly.

She based the plot of Raisin on her real family life.