Sentence examples for closely based on a from inspiring English sources

The book that Adèle is most closely based on, a French graphic novel, by Julie Maroh, calls the character Clémentine.

It is easy to forget that the novel was closely based on a real place and time.

Sometimes this results in a poem that is closely based on a particular rhyme, in other instances it can be more to do with a general tone.

They want to replace the current flat superannuation tax rate of 15% with a progressive system closely based on a person's marginal income tax rate.

This would be closely based on a long-negotiated economic partnership agreement between the EU and Japan, which both sides aim to sign soon.

Knowing that the scene was so closely based on a documentary account, and that the "savages" line was actually spoken, doesn't make it better.

Very closely based on an Israeli TV series (Be'Tipul) that first aired four years ago, the appeal of In Treatment stems from its sophistication.

Closely based on an autobiographical essay by Kim Geun-tae, the former South Korean dissident who went on to enjoy a lauded career as a government minister before his death in 2011, this punishing drama from Chung Ji-young numbs the senses.

Our mystery is much more closely based on an actual murder trial, from Boston in 1755, in which two slaves, Mark and Phillis, were convicted of poisoning their master, after which Phillis was burned at the stake and Mark was hanged and left to rot, for decades, in Cambridge.

Gruault's association with the New Wave auteurs also included The Soldiers (Les Carabiniers, 1963), Godard's dispassionate anti-war, anti-imperialist statement, and Rivette's The Nun (La Religieuse, 1965), which was initially banned in France on grounds of lesbianism and anti-clericalism, though it was closely based on an 18th-century classic novel by Diderot.

(Scott) 'National Security' (No rating, 1 46, in Korean) Closely based on an autobiographical essay by the former South Korean dissident Kim Geun-tae, this punishing drama from Chung Ji-young rarely swerves from sickening realism in depicting the 22 days of torture endured by a young father and pro-democracy advocate (Park Won-sang) at the hands of a military dictatorship.