Sentence examples for is based on fiction from inspiring English sources

This year's program is based on fiction by Cornell Woolrich, a former Columbia student whose short story "It Had to Be Murder" inspired the film Rear Window, directed by Alfred Hitchcock '72HON.

If the script cannot be said to be cheap (writer and director Ron Maxwell sold his house to keep the project alive) it must be remembered that whatever its merits, it is based on fiction – Michael Shaara's 1975 Pulitzer-winner, The Killer Angels.

"The DOJ's case is based on fictions and incomplete quotations.

"We went after 'The Da Vinci Code' because of the argument that it was based on fact, when it was based on fiction," Mr. Donohue said.

Gordon England, then secretary of the navy, said he was "personally convinced the Iraqis seized [Speicher] sometime after his plane went down".If all this sounds like the makings of a good novel it is because much of it was based on fiction.

Their database was based on fiction movies and consisted of seven hours of recordings organized into 400 audiovisual sequences (SAFE corpus).

While the storyline detailing its theft was based on fiction, Heller believed that it showed how Caesar could turn "misfortune into opportunity.

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick took to Twitter this morning to say investigations into him following an alleged "suspicious incident" with a woman in a hotel room are based on fiction.

"When you need to specify the branch of writing that is based on fictional narration, you say 'fiction writing'".

Much of Wattpad's popularity is based on fan fiction, but after a month sifting through the platform's original fiction categories I suspect that – while I didn't find the next Hilary Mantel or Donna Tartt – in popular genres like sci-fi, fantasy and young adult, Wattpad's best contributors are more than good enough to match their professionally published counterparts.

The rhetoric of corporate governance is based on a fiction.