Sentence examples for gentle adaptation from inspiring English sources

The Prokofiev was more exciting and featured some fascinating touches, such the gentle adaptation of the lion's roar (manipulating a string attached to the skin of the drum), and in general did a good job of showing the softer, subtler side of the bass drum.

However, some recent studies have included in their protocols frequencies at 10 15 Hz to allow for gentle adaptation in frail populations (nursing home residents, elder, rehabilitation programs, etc).[ 16, 20].

He argues that "Dumb and Dumber" is "a film version of 'Don Quixote' for kids," that "Rambo: First Blood, Part II" is "a contemporary variation on Homer's 'Iliad' " and that "Seinfeld" is a "kinder, gentler" adaptation of the Etherege play "The Man of Mode".

I did a gentle bit of adaptation – some cutting, a little reordering of scenes.

Mr. Krymov's adaptation makes gentle comedy of some of the stylistic innovations of Bunin's 1940 story.

Peter Sheridan's gentle, misty-eyed screen adaptation of Behan's coming-of-age novel, "Borstal Boy," barely hints at the marathon toper to come in a scene in which the teenage Brendan gets pleasantly tipsy on cider.

The critics are largely thrilled by Drew Barrymore's gentle directing debut, an adaptation of Shauna Cross's breezy 2007 novel about a teenager trying to escape her life of small-town ennui by joining a local roller derby league.

What is crucially missing from Mr. Bent's adaptation are the gentle humanity and sly, understated humor of the movie version, an Oscar nominee for best foreign film in 2002.

Yet Mr. Hoggett was dumbfounded when Mr. Tiffany proposed another project about emotionally clenched characters: a musical adaptation of "Once," a gentle little movie from Dublin about young musicians falling in love sideways as they wander the city.

The character he has most related to, he says, is Lennie, the unassuming, accidentally-murderous gentle giant he played in the 1992 adaptation of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.

Watch Alain de Botton offering a kinder, gentler philosophy of success at ted.com and Tim Harford discussing adaptation and why success always starts with failure at thersa.org.