Sentence examples for classic adaptations from inspiring English sources
"If you look across our year [in drama], there are two or three biopics, there are two or three programmes based on actual events such as On Expenses, and some classic adaptations.
Andrew Davies, dean of classic adaptations, and the man who had Darcy rise up from the waters of Pemberley, once said: "You have to get sex into the spine of the story".
A dollar-adjusted list would be populated by classic adaptations like Gone With the Wind, The Sound of Music and The Ten Commandments (which, we guess, counts as a book adaptation).
Apart from their appeal to pigeon fanciers, head crests are important display items in mate selection, and are thus classic "adaptations," functionally relevant structures that are taken as evidence, in the Darwinian paradigm, for natural selection having occurred.
My first classic adaptation!
Far more distinguished was a now classic adaptation of Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely (1944).
"She stands for bold decision-making and backing the best work from writers, performers and directors, across the range of scripted output – from the single drama to classic adaptation to cutting-edge comedy and film.
Based on Sholem Aleichem's great stories about shtetl life in Russia, this classic adaptation works on many levels, thanks to Jerry Bock's music, Sheldon Harnick's lyrics, and Joseph Stein's excellent book.
The great exception was Robert Rossen, whose classic adaptation of Walter Tevis's novel The Hustler (1961) gave Newman his most complex early role and marked a turning point in his career.
8 P.M. (BBC America) THE SHINING (1980) Honey, he's home: Jack Nicholson, below, plays Jack Torrance, a writer driven to insanity after taking a job as the winter caretaker of an isolated hotel, in Stanley Kubrick's classic adaptation of the Stephen King thriller.
"But I think there is something about Doctor Who that is so effortlessly entertaining that it just doesn't show its colours in terms of quite how brilliant a piece of drama it is... [unlike] a classic adaptation," Ms Tranter said.
