Sentence examples for based on an acquaintance from inspiring English sources

(Mopey was based on an acquaintance — a retired sea captain — and the Duke was his self-portrait).

But Fox News reporting was hardly flawless on that day — the network named the wrong person on air as the hostage-taker, based on an acquaintance's account, while other networks were withholding the suspect's name.

Soorma Bhopali, a minor comic relief character, was based on an acquaintance of actor Jagdeep, a forest officer from Bhopal named Soorma.

They were based on an actual acquaintance with the city, and drawn by pilgrims or for them.

The Reno character was based on a painter acquaintance of Ferrara, who made use of the friend's apartment and paintings in the film.

The revelation that Karofsky's antagonism stemmed from his own homosexual feelings was based on a personal acquaintance of Murphy's.

Two vignettes, one based on a stranger and one on an acquaintance situation "were designed to incorporate risk factors identified in the literature and included … clear risk factors and ambiguous risk factors" (p. 162).

Based on a real-life acquaintance of O'Hara's named Starr Faithfull, Gloria is a creature of the great sexual revolution of the twentieth century the one that occurred in the twenties, thanks to cars and speakeasies.

Its classic statement, by Collingwood, was that the historian's "why?" is not "on what occasions?" but "what did he think, that made him do it?" Collingwood believed that the historian could rethink the thoughts of the actor (as one can work out the same geometrical reasoning as Pythagoras); thus, historical knowledge could be based on a kind of acquaintance.

Based on an existing novel.

It was modern in that it was on a large scale cartoons were published on a fairly regular serial basis, much like that of the modern daily newspaper's editorial cartoon (though the newspaper was still in the letter-and-gazette stage); and it was based on a fairly large and general acquaintance with the persons satirized if not always with the literary analogies used.