Sentence examples for based on the strange from inspiring English sources
As if everybody doesn't choose their mate based on the strange criteria that evolution has programmed into our heads.
The latest research suggests that Brown's speculations about the existence of Planet Nine, based on the strange alignment of other bodies, may well be correct.
This intelligent, zany, disturbing piece is based on the strange story of an American researcher and college dropout in the 60s who undertook an ill-judged experiment, living with and trying to teach English to a dolphin.
It is both a sunrise organization, providing the only village council for our shrinking global village, and a sunset organization, based on the strange principle that nation-states pursuing national interests will somehow take care of our global commons.
Pro. Inc. Spike Lee won the Grand Prix, the festival's second prize, for "BlacKkKlansman," a galvanizing drama based on the strange, true-life story of a black detective who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s and is also an indictment of President Donald J. Trump.
Secondly, the rules are based on the strange assumption that the entrepreneur him or herself will have "unrestricted access to the funds" provided by a third party.
Based on the true and strange overlap of John Clare and Alfred Tennyson in a Victorian lunatic asylum (only Clare was a patient), Foulds's novel is a model of the beauty that can be achieved with a restricted setting and characters dictated by the historical record.
This vigilante action was often based on the idea that "strange", pale-skinned, Vietnamese-looking voters unable to speak Khmer had been issued with temporary election IDs to cast ghost votes for the ruling party – a claim widely believed, but not thoroughly substantiated, by many opposition supporters.
Ellison has a number of moderately budgeted projects in development at Skydance, including an untitled comedy written by David Caspe to star Charlize Theron, and "Hyde," based on the Dark Horse comic "The Strange Case of Hyde," which is being adapted for the big screen by Cole Haddon and produced with Mark Gordon and Dark Horse Entertainment.
In 1974, Herzog was looking for someone to play Kaspar Hauser in a film based on the true story of the strange young man who appeared suddenly in the town square in early 19th-century Nuremberg, and who had had no contact with human beings since his childhood.
Tina Fey is fronting Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, based on the book The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan by embedded US journalist Kim Barker.
