Sentence examples for lively adaptation from inspiring English sources

Julia Raeside This lively adaptation of the much-loved Michel Faber novel starts very promisingly indeed.

In 1567 Le Brave, ou Taillebras, Baïf's lively adaptation of Plautus' Miles gloriosus, was played at court and published.

Inspired by the PBS television series of the same title, "Reading Rainbow" is a lively adaptation of eight stories.

Walters worked with Niven and Doris Day on his next picture, a lively adaptation of Jean Kerr's play Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960).

But this is a lively adaptation, very MGM, with Reginald Owen as Scrooge, Leo G. Carroll as Jacob Marley's ghost, Gene Lockhart (father of June) as Bob Cratchit and Ann Rutherford as the Spirit of Christmas Past.

The director had more success with The Three Musketeers (1948), a lively adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas classic, with Turner playing Lady de Winter and Kelly as D'Artagnan; others in the cast included Van Heflin, June Allyson, Gig Young, and Vincent Price.

Then came a sequence of free and lively adaptations from the French, more farce than comedy, including The Country House (first performed 1703) and The Confederacy (1705).

And in a humorous and lively stage adaptation by Jeffrey Fiske and Max McLean now playing at Westside Theater, he is every inch the cunning English gentleman he is often purported to be.

Mark Brown's clever, lively stage adaptation is faithful to the writer's voice (at least as it's come down to us in English) and to the story — even though he makes short shrift of Fogg's only passion, the bridgelike card game whist, and in the episode Verne bills as "only to be met with on American railroads," he unaccountably turns Sioux attackers into geographically unlikely Apaches.

While he was on furlough in the West End, directing Jeremy Sams's lively if sentimental adaptation of a favorite movie, the criticism of Mr. Noble intensified.

"It" This lively but methodical adaptation of the novel by Stephen King offers a batch of skillful teen actors a place in the spotlight, and gives Bill Skarsgård an antic and campy turn as the monstrous Pennywise the Dancing Clown, who appears every twenty-seven years to kidnap children from the town of Derry, Maine.