Sentence examples for loosely upon from inspiring English sources
Slogans multiplied in pursuit of a unified, national tongue which, though it had by now been renamed Putonghua (common language), was still the standard based loosely upon the Beijing dialect.
This introduced new elements into Jewish popular mythology: hierarchies of angels; archangels such as Michael, Gabriel, and Uriel (modeled loosely upon the six Iranian spiritual entities, the amesha spentas); and the demonic figures of Satan, Belial, and Asmodeus (corresponding to the Iranian Angra Mainyu [Ahriman], Druj, and Aēshma Daeva).
The horse's proportions are based loosely upon those prescribed by Alberti in De equo animante, which in turn is based upon the anonymous Sonetto del Cavallo Perfetto; however, in many ways the horse departs radically from Alberti's ideal of a harmonious and "lithe" creature in the style of Leonello d'Este's monument to Niccolò III d'Este, Arco del Cavallo in Ferrara.
Hannibal is loosely based upon characters from Thomas Harris's novel Red Dragon, a prequel to The Silence of the Lambs.
(Cate Blanchett plays a character loosely modelled upon Valland in the 2014 movie "The Monuments Men," based on the book of the same name by Robert Edsel).
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Depp recalls the perplexed horror in which studio executives held Captain Jack Sparrow, the pirate loosely based upon Keith Richards.
Mr. Fox was born in New York but moved to Israel with his family when he was 3. "Yossi and Jagger" is loosely based upon his army experience during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon.
He is wearing a crisply ironed shirt and trousers with the Islamic scarf loosely resting upon his head, protecting it from the intense morning sun.
Breakfast at Tiffany's was directed by Blake Edwards, and written by George Axelrod, loosely based upon a novella by Truman Capote.
According to vexillologist Whitney Smith, it may be loosely based upon cavalry flags of the Civil War and Spanish American War.
The first episode, "A Study in Pink", loosely based upon the first Sherlock Holmes novel A Study in Scarlet, was written by Moffat and directed by Paul McGuigan.
