Sentence examples for clever updating from inspiring English sources
Critics praised his songs and clever updating of the classic fairy tales "Pinocchio, "Jack and The Beanstalk," "Emperor's New Clothes" and "Aladdin," calling them "Sparkling and humorous", noting, "adults enjoyed them as much, or more, than the children".
You would think it easy to modernise the financial concerns of Austen's characters, and Joanna Trollope manages a clever updating of the financial settlement that deprives the Dashwood girls and their mum of their inheritance.
The score is by Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda, members of the indie pop group GrooveLily, whose thoroughly charming "Striking 12" was a clever updating of Hans Christian Andersen's "Little Match Girl" set on New Year's Eve in New York City.
Perforated wood planks, swooping up to the ceiling, are a clever update of Middle Eastern latticework.
It's a clever update of a dead genre - the boy's annual.
Such droll gags as a clever update on Marilyn Monroe's windblown-dress photo op are dully executed.
Textured coats were topped off with leather sleeves strapped to the shoulder, which were a clever update on the contrasting-sleeves trend, and easy-cut pants were designed for a man used to walking the streets of the asphalt jungle.
It serves clever updates of classic Turkish dishes, like a ceviche made with Black Sea anchovies and fava bean purée flavored with anise liquor (entrees 15 to 25 lira).
Baker finds many clever updates on The Tenant of Wildfell Hall but you don't have to have read it to enjoy this arresting novel, because what she really takes from the youngest Brontë sister is her fierce, uncompromising feminism.
12-13) consists of two works by Wevers: a consistspdate of two pas de deux from August Bournonville's charming nineteenth-century classic "Napoli," reconceived for tworksn in suits, and "Monster," a series of sexy duets that explore addiction and co-dependency.
It includes a coolly absurd fabric and metal construction, like a giant vacuum cleaner, by Jack Risley David Hendersonn's sensuously smoothed fragments of laminated plywood; Lisa Hein's clever update of Duchamp's last work; Elana Herzog's optically surprising play with staples and fabric; Julia Kunin's little octopi, cast in colored glass; and Bob Seng's 1960's-style wall displacement (Johnson).
