Sentence examples for so much adapted from inspiring English sources

Their notion of style, built on classic haberdashery, was not so much adapted from a man's wardrobe as pilfered outright.

Director Spike Jonze has not so much adapted, or been inspired by, Maurice Sendak's 1963 classic, as he has extrapolated from it.

Dumas purists be warned: the Pajama Men don't so much adapt the novel as pickle it in their own loopy imaginations.

In "Godard Mon Amour" (which premièred at the Cannes Film Festival last May and opens here on Friday), Hazanavicius doesn't so much adapt Wiazemsky's memoirs as lay waste to them, pillaging the books for anecdotal sketches of a romance that he detaches from its surroundings, minimizing its intellectual fervor and historical urgency.

The central plot of the second "X-Men" movie was taken from a graphic novel that came out in the 80's; "Daredevil" didn't so much adapt a comic as borrow a specific 80's story line by the writer-artist Frank Miller, who created the Elektra character.

"I don't think it's so much adapting a system to a player, it is about working on specific plays that suit the player.

MORE important, headlines don't omit tenses so much as adapt them to the singular point of view of the daily news.

And maybe it's one of the reasons that large companies struggle so much in adapting to change, while smaller companies seem so nimble.

Since it was retro in the first place it's not so much updated as adapted for television.

I had already recorded a demo of the song thinking I could use it in the film, and when that didn't work out, I liked the song so much that I adapted it slightly to include it on this album.

Not so much difficult to adapt, but more so being brave in sticking to my roots and sticking to what my core fans love me for, in addition to understanding that things evolve.