Instead, he adapted: he memorized the city's subway system by listening to the conductors' announcements, learned to follow the lead of strangers at crosswalks, and developed a system for catching cabs that would keep him from mistakenly boarding a passenger car.
Instead he adapted his environment to suit him.
He instead suggested adapting Mushishi as he felt it would be "an opportunity to mix live action and computer graphics, to create a hybrid of the natural and the virtual".
Instead he has struggled to adapt to politics, and has plodded overcautiously.
Instead he's having to adapt to all the different buttons and switches on the steering wheel of his new Mercedes, some of which he has already asked to be deleted.
Instead, they adapt found objects, with all their built-in associations, to serve new purposes in terms of both form and content.
Instead of adapting, he rages against the passing of time, looking faintly horrified by his hair loss, gazing wistfully at his rodeo belt from 1982.
He instead considered adapting some of the notable Judge Dredd storylines, including "Democracy" (1986) and "Origins" (2006).
Unlike most professional surfers, he doesn't plan different manoeuvres in advance, but instead adapts instinctively, suddenly spinning his board into reverse, perhaps, or flipping into mid-air to land audacious 360-degree turns.
Instead of adapting the novel, however, he borrowed three of its characters, for whom he created a prequel centred on the desert tavern of a swordsman and the lost souls who seek his services.
