Sentence examples for based on an incident from inspiring English sources

The national critics were either angered or bewildered by Arden's portrait of four Victorian deserters who turn up in a northern mining town to exact retribution for an act of colonial violence: one based on an incident in Cyprus in 1958, when British soldiers killed five innocent people in an anti-terrorist reprisal.

Menzies: I have written a one-man show based on an incident in my life: the night I was attending the first show Marlene Dietrich did on Broadway.

The domino that sets off a cascade of falling pieces in "Why Stop Now?" is a Catch-22 moment based on an incident witnessed by Ron Nyswaner, one of the movie's creators, while working as a volunteer in a detox unit.

Because Leigh's play is based on an incident in the life of activist Vladimir Bukovksy, one has to accept its plausibility.

It's based on an incident that happened to me.

The comic book tale is based on an incident in the life of Rabbi Joseph Schneerson.

The episode is based on an actual incident that happened to Carr, who co-writes and produces the series with her husband Warren Holstein.

"The Stake Out" is based on a real life incident in which David was with a woman that he had dated previously named Monica Yates.

It was, he explains, just "a dumb joke" (and one that appears to be based on an actual incident that occurred in Lewiston in 2006).

The play, considered one of Racine's noble tragedies, was based on an actual incident that occurred in the Ottoman Empire in the 1630s.

Another memorable scene is based on an 1884 incident.