Sentence examples for he modified it from inspiring English sources

In his excitement, he named the boy Daric, but upon realizing his mistake, he modified it to Darica.

Although he adopted the pessimistic view of the state of civilization held by Schopenhauer, he modified it with Hegel's optimistic outlook for the future of mankind.

Langland wrote in the unrhymed alliterative mode, but he modified it in such a way as to make it more accessible to a wider audience by treating the metre more loosely and avoiding the arcane diction of the provincial poets.

As a teenager performing magic tricks at birthday parties, he adopted Robert Merlin as a stage name, but when a friend convinced him that his choice of the ancient wizard's name was hackneyed, he modified it, adopting Merton with the concurrence of his Americanizing mother after he won a scholarship to Temple University.

Investigators believe at least one of the guns functioned as if it were fully automatic and are now working to determine whether he modified it or others to be capable of spitting out a high volume of fire just by holding down the trigger, people familiar with the case said.

To test the idea that C.U. children may be less responsive to reward and punishment than the average child, Waschbusch established a system in which kids were awarded points for behaving well and docked points for acting out, and then he modified it to include weeks where either the reward (points earned) or the punishment (points lost) were augmented.

This is McMaster's first description of the story as false, but he modifies it with the phrase "as reported". That leaves a lot of wiggle room: Is it false as reported because a minor detail was wrong?

He has modified it so that he can stay down for up to twelve hours, if necessary — far longer than is possible with normal scuba gear, which is limited to about an hour and change at shallow depths.

Yes, he owns a flat-screen television, but he has modified it with a burlap frame.

"He then modified it, because, obviously, there was a lot of pushback from seniors on that idea.

Although Wemmick's home is tiny, he has modified it to resemble a Gothic fortress of sorts, complete with a plank drawbridge, a moat and a "turret bedroom".