Sentence examples for based on historical figures from inspiring English sources

Gladiator takes place in ad 180 and is loosely based on historical figures.

These people are not based on historical figures at all, yet the story is informed by many sources.

Although it is hard to tell from Stein's obscure yet somehow incantatory text, the opera is a community portrait of 16th-century Spanish saints, some based on historical figures (Teresa of Avila and Ignatius of Loyola) but most of them made up.

Campaigns based on historical figures would include "a theme that will at least be rooted in [the character's] culture".

They are projections in a liminal space, Golem-like in power yet manifestly human, seemingly fanciful yet based on historical figures or archetypes.

It happens to take place in the mid-1500s, based on historical figures, but it's a love (triangle) story, a tried-and-true winner for a network that counts "The Vampire Diaries" and "Arrow" among its hits.

I've observed many investors who buy stocks or mutual funds based on historical performance figures, including one-, three-, five- and ten-year returns.

Novelist Richard Bausch went mostly in the direction of lyric in his book These Extremes, which featured prose to his relatives as well as verse based on historical and literary figures.

Based on historical data, researchers figure that this is the number of jobs they are missing.

Morningstar says it was an "overly optimistic" figure based on historical US stock market returns that were higher than returns earned by British savers – and, in any case, not applicable to a world in which interest rates have fallen to zero and where longevity continues to rise steeply.

A Treasury source said the child benefit move would only yield £120m, suggesting Labour's figures were based on historical rather than current rates of inflation.