Sentence examples for heaven based on from inspiring English sources

A three-hour original movie, "The Five People You Meet in Heaven," based on Mitch Albom's best-selling novel, decisively won Sunday's Nielsen overnight ratings competition for ABC.

The new musical "Far From Heaven," based on the 2002 film starring Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid as a 1950s housewife and her sexually conflicted husband, will be among the six productions that Playwrights Horizons will mount during its 2012-13 season, that Off Broadway theater company announced on Tuesday.

Journalist Maria Shriver recently made the best-seller lists with a touching story, What's Heaven?, based on her efforts to explain death to her children.

Ostensibly following on their heels is the Jennifer Garner-starring "Miracles From Heaven," based on an amazing — and weird — true story.

I had those moments during my abusive childhood, where I just felt like I was in heaven based on something simple.

(By the way, if any religion says entry into heaven is based on a criterion of belief, on the need to assent to a requisite belief, then heaven will only be for the few in that religion because most people live unexposed, or under-exposed, to the requisite belief. Suppose we say an American carpenter's salvation depends on his knowing all about the Hindu God Ganesh?).

Some of the erotic poses that he and Staller assumed in "Made in Heaven" were based on European paintings of saints in ecstasy, as he pointed out, and in one of them he was channelling Michelangelo's Adam.

Widely-reported comments implying the Pope had given pets his blessing to enter Heaven were based on a misunderstanding, it has emerged.

"Far from Heaven" is based on the 2002 movie of the same title, written and directed by Todd Haynes, and the book, by Richard Greenberg, is deeply faithful to the original tale.

Hubbard taught that the Christian concept of heaven was based on a physical location on another planet, which he claimed to have visited.

By focusing on the bond between father and son, the movie avoids being heavy-handed or preachy, a wise choice for a film that asserts heaven exists, based on the earnest insistence of a precocious preschooler.