Sentence examples for based on real characters from inspiring English sources
But the French seem keen on fiction based on real characters.
The script, by William Monahan, is based on real characters of the three-century Crusades, including Balian of Ibelin, a Crusader knight who led the defense of Jerusalem in 1187, and the Muslim leader Saladin, who defeated him.
A history of Latin American literature could be compiled following that genre alone: the classic example is Jorge Luis Borges's A Universal History of Infamy, based on real characters and inspired by Marcel Schwob's Imaginary Lives, in turn suggested by Aubrey's almost imaginary Brief Lives.
The scientific narratives are based on real characters (molecules) that have been studied and represented to the best of the scientist's ability.
It is based on real characters, but there was very little information about them, there were very simple facts about where they went and what they did, and I just put myself there and tried to imagine.
Based on real life characters and events, The Ginger Man is an evocative portrait of bohemian Dublin in the late 1940s.
Or, put another way, with a real (though unseen) historical character with a made-up co-star in a made-up film in a television series that purports to be based on real events and real characters but isn't and that is itself based on a film that does the same.
An insider added to Page Six, "There will be tales in the book which will leave readers wondering if they are based on real events and characters.
Now the activities of both, partly fictionalised but based on real-life characters and incidents, have been put on stage.
Historian Amanda Vickery and Radio 3 presenter Tom Service reveal the extraordinary story behind the opera's first night in London and its scandalous heroine, the courtesan Violetta Valéry, whose dramatic life and tragic death were based on real-life characters and events.
No less than four men, many based on real-life characters, come to consider her the exquisite woman of their dreams.
