Sentence examples for exquisite adaptation from inspiring English sources

After his exquisite adaptation of Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth," in 2000, Davies didn't film another drama until "The Deep Blue Sea," in 2012.

Phil Harrison Girl With A Pearl Earring (Peter Webber, 2003 11.40pmm, BBC1 An exquisite adaptation of Tracy Chevalier's bestseller about the circumstances that led to Vermeer painting his masterwork of the title.

Duras' insistence that we pay due homage to the past, and Resnais' exquisite adaptation of the written text also work hand-in-hand to affirm that in the end love, and not just the carnal kind that the stars experience here, but also love of beauty (of Nevers, of the human body and soul, of film itself) can overcome almost anything--even the memory of Hiroshima, once devastated and now rebuilt.

That the wondrous interdependency and exquisite adaptations of living organisms could have evolved by natural causes is arguably the most far-reaching and powerful idea in all of science.

The empirical basis underlying Darwin's conclusions consisted of numerous observations made by him and other naturalists on the exquisite adaptations of animals and plants to their natural habitats and on the impressive results of artificial selection.

The presence of genes that suggest a preference for the oxidation of fatty acids for energy production as well as insulin-mediated molecular signalling genes in the key selected genomic regions in a population that has been strongly selected for exquisite adaptations to exercise strongly supports the role of exercise in the prevention of obesity and the protection against T2DM.

NEMATODES are highly prolific organisms that originated during the Precambrian or Cambrian explosion over 500 million years ago and have subsequently evolved exquisite adaptations, allowing them to inhabit nearly all ecological niches (Malakhov and Hope 1994; Ayala and Rzhetsky 1998; Blaxter et al. 1998; Rodriguez-Trelles et al. 2002).

" How have all [the] exquisite adaptations of one part of the organisation to another part, and to the conditions of life, and of one distinct organic being to another being, been perfected?" So asked Charles Darwin in 1859, articulating one of the central questions of ecology half a dozen years before the term was even coined.

No other creature displays so exquisite an adaptation to the tidal rhythm as the grunion, a shimmering fish about as long as a man's hand.

Released: 30 December Great Expectations (NC) David Lean has made more "epic" films – Lawrence of Arabia, Dr Zhivago etc – but none as sublime as his exquisite 1946 adaptation of Charles Dickens's rags-to-riches tale.

But he showed that the multiplicity of plants and animals, with their exquisite and varied adaptations, could be explained by a process of natural selection, without recourse to a Creator or any designer agent.