Sentence examples for disaster that inspired from inspiring English sources
A harrowing re-creation of the 1820 whaling disaster that inspired "Moby-Dick".
I was hoping for a call to arms, a national mission as great as the environmental disaster that inspired it.
Scrupulously researched and elegantly written, this is a richly satisfying account of the whaling disaster that inspired "Moby-Dick"; the winner of the 2000 National Book Award for nonfiction.
It's certainly more fun than In the Heart of the Sea (Warner, 12), Ron Howard's suitably shipwrecked, would-be epic account of the maritime disaster that inspired Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
Christopher B. Sheldon, whose 92-foot twin-masted sailing ship Albatross sank in a freak storm in 1961, a disaster that inspired the 1996 movie "White Squall," died on Oct. 5 in Stamford, Conn.
In this deeply researched account of the 1820 whaling disaster that inspired "Moby-Dick," an angry sperm whale is just the beginning: adrift on the open seas in small boats, the crew must also deal with navigational mistakes, immense suffering, madness and cannibalism.
It was Sestero's book on the making of the film, "The Disaster Artist", that inspired the eponymous movie directed by Franco and starring his brother Dave and Seth Rogen.
Based on the true whaling disaster story that inspired Herman Melville's classic 19th century novel "Moby-Dick," "In the Heart of the Sea" depicts the fearsome white sperm whale at the center of the tale as he has never appeared on-screen before: in photo-real form, with close-ups and character-revealing shots executed by artists at the London-based visual effects house Double Negative.
