Sentence examples for straightforward adaptation from inspiring English sources

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A claim could be made that the creative forces behind the movie were not faithful to the text they were adapting, but a more straightforward adaptation would have involved watching someone do fifty jumping jacks and prattling on about stealing batteries while high on cocaine.

Although billed as "based on" Garner's book, the film is hardly a straightforward adaptation – nor could it be.

Unlike other recent plays that have been inspired by "The Scarlet Letter," Ms. Gilligan's is, for the most part, a straightforward adaptation.

Doing a straightforward adaptation was one notion, but then Collins had a brainwave: why not focus on the very thing that most productions would try to disguise: the medium.

She is taking a turn toward the classical with Iphigenia in Aulis, a comparatively straightforward adaptation of Euripides's final play, which concerns Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter at the onset of the Trojan war.

By comparison with Cocteau's surrealistic earlier film The Blood of a Poet (1930), this may seem a relatively straightforward adaptation (notwithstanding the self-reflexive opening in which we see the director himself writing the credits on a blackboard).

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We put on straightforward adaptations of plays, including CP Taylor's The Magic Island, about a bloke who lives in a cave.

It sounds like the idea is less about straightforward adaptations and more about telling new stories using various characters, storylines and settings.

Holmes is such a familiar figure that, apart from straightforward adaptations of original stories — and the last television series to do that, starring Jeremy Brett, ended more than 20 years ago — every use of Holmes is also a comment on the characters and their habits and accessories.

Gottfried von Einem produced a straightforward, solemn adaptation in 1953.

Simple network architecture and straightforward weight adaptation laws make our proposed technique appropriate for real-time implementation.

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