Sentence examples for loosely modeled from inspiring English sources

"We loosely modeled it after a Greek tragedy," Mr. Schlieman said, adding: "Very loosely".

The commission offers no amnesty -- unlike South Africa's post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission, on which it was loosely modeled.

One of the show's most provocative inclusions is Eleanor Antin's takeoff of a vanity memoir, loosely modeled on Isadora Duncan's.

Loosely modeled after the West Wing of the White House, the new group of advisers includes specialists in the media, foreign affairs and the economy.

The ruling could remove the cloud over open-source software like Linux, an operating system loosely modeled on the proprietary Unix.

Mr. Kluzer said American automotive historians might recognize that Lingotto was loosely modeled on the Ford Motor Company's huge River Rouge plant near Detroit.

Loosely modeled on "24," the show has piggy-backed on that Hollywood production's widespread popularity here, improbable as the translation might be.

Dill was loosely modelled on Harper Lee's dear childhood friend, the writer Truman Capote.

Here, they produced slipware and later stoneware, loosely modelled on the Leach pottery in St Ives, Cornwall.

Stanley himself has been loosely modelled on influential journalist Spike Hughes, an early champion of hot jazz.

The plot of the novel is loosely modelled on Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo.