Sentence examples for drawn closely from inspiring English sources

Hearst was livid over the movie's depiction of a cutthroat newspaper baron drawn closely to his own likeness.

He had drawn closely on aspects of his own life: an alcoholic brother, an actor father and above all a mother sinking back into morphine addiction.

It is clear that Toíbín has drawn closely on his own mother's story for Nora Webster: presumably he made his young self into Donal, Nora's third child, the moody incommunicative boy who stammers and sees the world through his camera.

Jong has always drawn closely on her own life in her novels: too closely, sometimes (in 2008, her sister stood up at an academic conference and announced that Fear of Flying had been a thorn in her flesh for 35 years).

Not surprisingly, this makes him exceptionally hard to live with, though his tough but magnificent wife and loving band of sons seem to have coped admirably.As for Solzhenitsyn the artist, Mr Thomas makes well the point that the Russian's most powerful creations are drawn closely from his own life; and that when his own life perforce became serene, his creative juices flowed much less freely.

He has a preternatural ability to wriggle out of tight spots ― his escapes in the novel, like his infamous breakout of Newgate Prison, were drawn closely from historical documents of the real Sheppard.

Jonathan Kingdon, a zoölogist and illustrator, was drawing closely related species of monkeys when he noticed subtle differences in their face markings.

A scene might draw closely on lived experience, but a reader can't presume and the author doesn't have to tell.

In "Velvet Brown," a work in progress, she draws closely on the personal histories of her performers (who include the equally magnetic Ms. Lieber) to investigate feelings of inhibition and shame.

As a result, each court cited the other's cases as precedent, and drew closely together.

Follow the outline that you drew closely, removing as much of the wood behind the leading edge as you want.