Sentence examples similar to cut-down adaptation from inspiring English sources

Perhaps the biggest disjuncture between the "cultural text" of Tom Brown, the one made up of all those half-remembered TV adaptations and cut-down children's versions, and the real, unvarnished thing, is Flashman.

Harrower's adaptation follows a cut-down second draft Brecht prepared for an unrealised Broadway production in 1943, but restores some material from the original that may have been too hastily discarded.

A new theory proposes that humans lost their thick fur as an adaptation to cut down on parasites and that smooth skin became a sexy symbol of health.

The adaptation necessarily cut down what was presumably a three-hour play into about forty minutes of libretto, to make room for songs in the intermissionless ninety-five minutes.

His adaptation of "Medea" — which has been cut down to seventy intermissionless minutes — seems undeveloped.

Cut down on fats.

Cut down on salt.

We cut down these trees.

But cut down on clutter.

Somebody cut down the tree.

We cut down top growth.