Sentence examples for phrase adapted from inspiring English sources

SuperMac went on to win the next election, only to see his most famous phrase adapted to "never had it so often" during the Profumo sex scandal that later brought him down.

Julian Barnes once described literary prizes as "posh bingo", a phrase adapted by last year's Booker prize chair, John Sutherland, in his new book How to Read a Novel, into the more generous idea that the longlist is a "posh bestseller list".

(Before the "Trilogy of Life" he went through a Greek-tragedy phrase, adapting "Oedipus Rex" and "Medea").

Art Basel, which ended on June 20th, heard a lot of phrases adapted from the financial markets.

But that issue is really separate from the larger one of how a vanilla suburb, to use the funk musician George Clinton's famous phrase, adapts to being part of the American swirl.

Though he was known as a writer of hard science fiction, meaning science fiction with a scrupulously accurate scientific basis, Mr. Anderson thought of his books as magical realism, a phrase he adapted from the fantastical style of some Latin American novelists.

With tongue-in-cheek reference to the city's liberal political leanings, some occasionally refer to Ann Arbor as "The People's Republic of Ann Arbor" or "25 square miles surrounded by reality", the latter phrase being adapted from Wisconsin Governor Lee Dreyfus's description of Madison, Wisconsin.

The printed phrases are adapted from many sources: speeches by Malcolm X, songs by Missy Elliott and Sun Ra, fiction and poetry by Ralph Ellison and Ishmael Reed, as well as advertising, news reports and sermons.

A boy's will is the wind's will, according to Longfellow, in a gorgeous phrase that Robert Frost adapted for the title of his first book.

Since then, the phrase has been adapted for successive waves of young adults: Generation Y, Generation Z, Generation Rent etc − so much so that it has become almost meaningless.

Although the supergroup was never formed, Page remembered the phrase and later adapted it as the name of his new band.