Sentence examples for resistant to adaptation from inspiring English sources

Over the decades, "Gatsby," like many great novels, has proved resistant to adaptation.

People do not adapt equally to everything, and so it's useful to consider what sorts of things are more resistant to adaptation.

Though the book was the prototype of a hundred road movies and one blueprint for "bromances" from Butch Cassidy to Brokeback Mountain, it seemed ever more resistant to adaptation as the decades rolled on.

The very qualities that made the book intriguing to Mr. Kaufman -- Ms. Orlean's gently satirical profile of the eccentric Mr. Laroche was interwoven with lengthy digressions on orchid taxonomy and swamp ecology -- made it resistant to adaptation.

These results indicate that the PVN and LC are relatively resistant to adaptation to acute stress compared to other brain regions.

By contrast, Kieron Walsh's "Rough for Theatre I" is clever and resourceful, featuring memorable performances by David Kelly and Milo O'Shea and an acute freeze-frame ending.Beckett's less polished sketches seem to liberate cinematic ingenuity, where his more developed conceptions of theatricality can prove resistant to adaptation.

Thompson's vision, though it seems made for Hollywood, is so singular that over the years it has proved remarkably resistant to movie adaptation.

The X chromosome is not resistant to evolutionary adaptation.

That is because bacteria, through natural selection and genetic adaptation, become resistant to antibiotics.

The olm is resistant to long-term starvation, an adaptation to its underground habitat.

Tumor cells are particularly resistant to hypoxia, likely as an adaptation to poor O2 delivery in tumors.