Sentence examples for based on a contemporary from inspiring English sources

Particularly striking is the fact that it is not a contemporary story, and not based on a contemporary musical idiom.

As part of his Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall, he returns with the orchestra for two programs this weekend, including tonight's performance of "Cassandre" by the noted Swiss composer Michael Jarrell, based on a contemporary reimagining of the ancient myth.

Perhaps his greatest achievement, as far as I am concerned, was to demonstrate beyond doubt the intellectual respectability of a fully-fledged philosophical position based on a contemporary heterodox logic.

Measuring almost seven feet square, it depicts the interior of a huge indoor swimming pool in San Francisco, populated by hundreds of little people in bathing suits and based on a contemporary photograph of the glass-enclosed three-acre Sutro Baths.

"All the surviving portraits of him – even the very later ones with humped backs and things which were obviously later additions – facially are quite similar [to each other] so it has always been assumed that they were based on a contemporary portrait painted in his lifetime or possibly several portraits painted in his lifetime," said historian and author John Ashdown-Hill.

As well as the realist novel, he also invented - and swiftly fictionalised - the 'eye witness' school of journalism with A Journal of the Plague Year (utterly convincing, though he was born after it ended) and A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs Veal, based on a contemporary ghost story.

The film is based on a very contemporary true-life phenomenon: the so-called "Bling Ring", a gang of teen burglars from wealthy homes in Hollywood who were obsessed with celebs.

The present investigation was based on a nationwide, contemporary study on celiac disease in 12,632 children.

The other, "Light," is based on an extraordinary contemporary Swedish novel by Torgny Lindgren.

CBASP as the experimental intervention follows a manual [ 19, 20] and is a highly structured approach based on an interpersonal contemporary learning acquisition model [ 21].

The Shakespearean scholar Stephen Greenblatt maintains that the character of Falstaff is based on Richard Greene, a contemporary who dismissed Shakespeare as "an upstart crow," and was famous for his huge appetite.