Sentence examples for is a transposition from inspiring English sources

Kenneth Branagh's fifth screen Shakespeare is a transposition of As You Like it to late 19th-century Japan and is a good deal less successful than his Henry V, Much Ado..., Hamlet and much underrated Love's Labour's Lost.

This poetic film, her finest to date, evokes in its title P.C. Wren's 1924 bestselling Beau Geste, and is a transposition to a present-day French Foreign Legion post beside the Red Sea of Herman Melville's homoerotic novella Billy Budd.

This rather good, extremely well performed horror movie is a transposition of Tomas Alfredson's outstanding Swedish vampire movie, Let the Right One In, from 1982 Stockholm to President Reagan's America, and specifically Los Alamos, Mexico, cradle of the atom bomb.

The film is a transposition to the American west of Mutiny on the Bounty, and its author, Borden Chase, went on to write several equally complex Anthony Mann westerns, as did his co-screenwriter Charles Schnee, who won an Oscar for The Bad and the Beautiful.

The rhomboid flap of Limberg is a transposition flap that has been advocated for treatment of this condition.

Because it is a transposition flap with a proximal axis of rotation, its transposition arc can also reach the dorsum of an adjacent digit.

In the blaNDM-1 upstream region, there was a 3-bp target site duplication (AAC) at the point of insertion between Tn3 and IS Aba125, suggesting that this was a transposition event.

Her gift card said that the subscription was the gift of J.B. Wondering if this was a transposition of the initials of her old friend B.J., she wrote and asked Curtis.

It's a transposition from Dartmoor (that's Dartmoor, England) to southern California of a memoir by Benjamin Mee, a former DIY writer for the Guardian, relating how in 2006 he bought a 30-acre tract of land in Devon containing a rundown zoo and a large house.

Basically it's a transposition of The Phantom of the Opera to the modern pop world, where an evil impresario, Swan (the diminutive, baby-faced composer Paul Williams,, who also wrote the songs), steals a pretentious rock cantata from Winslow Leach, its naive author, and frames him on drugs charge.

Weill then wrote the music and Brecht provided the libretto for Die Dreigroschenoper (1928; The Threepenny Opera), which was a transposition of John Gay's Beggar's Opera (1728) with the 18th-century thieves, highwaymen, jailers, and their women turned into typical characters in the Berlin underworld of the 1920s.