Sentence examples for retains the characters from inspiring English sources

Let me add that the Chekhov -- which retains the characters and names, but places them in contemporary times -- takes the play out of the realm of what Konstantin rails at as museum theatre ("three walls, some artificial light and seat a few hundred people down to watch people like them pretend to be people like them") and puts it in our laps.

Only the northerly island port of Lamu, Kenya, retains the character of the Swahili town.

Much of Rego Park retains the character of a classic New York immigrant neighborhood.

Robert Rodriguez's forthcoming live-action cyberpunk movie retains the character design of the manga on which it is based.

He repeatedly emphasized the switch from a park-like plaza to a garden that retains "the character and feel" of the Haupt.

At the tail end of the Smokey Mountains, it is still the home to moonshiners and inbred back woodsmen, and retains the character of a place out of time.

The Boekhandel Selexyz Dominicanen, which opened just before Christmas, retains the character and charm of the old church, while being fitted with a minimalist and modern interior design that overcomes any suggestion of fustiness.

Yet with its wood-framed houses and cobbled streets, Bergen still retains the character of the medieval port it once was, the northern outpost of the Hanseatic League of merchants who traded dried cod, grain and salt.

Park Lodge has been considerably altered but retains the character of a "late Victorian red-brick villa"; Masons Hall is later (1905) and "rather eccentric", resembling a Tuscan villa and featuring a campanile-style projection at one corner.

"But it should be possible to retain the character of both the bungalow and the area".

"We wanted to retain the character of the original home," said Mr. Teutsch, a retired mortgage banker.