Sentence examples for sleek adaptation from inspiring English sources
Fincher returned to a focus on sordid crime with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), a sleek adaptation of Stieg Larsson's best-selling novel about the investigation of an unsolved murder.
Nearly all of the four-door cars that made their debuts had rakish roof profiles requiring swept-back C pillars and a sleeker adaptation of the venerable kink.
At one extreme there is Roman Polanski's deceptively sleek, evenhanded adaptation of "Rosemary's Baby" (1968), which arrives in a finely restored, fully loaded edition from the Criterion Collection.
Anticipation of that event may be stealing some thunder from this movie — a rare instance of the book business beating Hollywood at its own hype-producing game — but between now and publication day on July 21, Potter fans can take some satisfaction in a sleek, swift and exciting adaptation of J. K. Rowling's longest novel to date.
The screen adaptation, however, finessed its narrative problems and begat a sleek and vividly thrilling movie from the then unknown wunderkind Steven Spielberg.
Two new John le Carré adaptations hit our screens this year: while Susanne Bier's sleek, riveting The Night Manager became whatever the equivalent of appointment TV is in this unscheduled era, over in cinemas, Susanna White's Our Kind of Traitor (Studiocanal, 15) made scarcely a ripple.
Sleek, squished-capsule shape.
