Sentence examples for excellent adaptations from inspiring English sources

Chameleons have five digits, but in each hand and foot, these digits are split into two "bundles". The arrangement permits them to grasp branches and climb with ease, excellent adaptations for life in the trees.

Elizabeth Gaskell -- She doesn't have the drawing power of Charles Dickens or Anthony Trollope, but Gaskell has been inspiring excellent adaptations from her novels, the latest of which is Cranford.

I also think Tod Williams's "The Door in the Floor" is an excellent adaptation of "A Widow for One Year"; he smartly adapted just the first third of that novel, when the character of Ruth (the eponymous widow) is still a little girl.

It's an excellent adaptation, in other words, of F. Scott Fitzgerald's melodramatic American classic.

Hair sheep are the most widespread race in Africa because of their excellent adaptation to the highly humid tropical forest12.

In 1987, Jonathan Miller and Michael Hastings did an excellent adaptation for the Royal Court that captured the absurd rituals of absolute power.

There is plenty of cheap, black-and-white, ingenious futurism, such as the underground dwelling pods in the excellent adaptation of Forster's The Machine Stops.

Although less effective than claws for digging or gouging, the flattened nail is still an excellent adaptation that has added much to the development of manipulative skills.

Despite some of the drawbacks identified in our study, the use of removable digital dentures does provide excellent adaptation of the denture base and requires fewer clinic visits.

In its preface, he states: "This book is the product of a collective act of solidarity". That collective defiance continues in Pippa Hill and Sophie Ivatts's excellent adaptation of We Are Arrested.

In Spike Jonze's excellent Adaptation, screenwriter Charlie Kaufman suffers from a painful case of writer's block only to watch his twin brother Donald's first attempt at scriptwriting sell for six figures.