Sentence examples for takes characters from inspiring English sources

But Yanique takes characters and settings from Wouk's book and subversively reimagines them.

It counts as a weird history, too, because it takes characters who have become two-dimensional myths - specifically, Lee Harvey Oswald - and makes them breathe again through the context of a modern narrator.

ONCE UPON A TIME IN WONDERLAND (ABC, Oct. 10) The creators of ABC's fairy-tale drama "Once Upon a Time," Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, are responsible for this spinoff, which takes characters and settings from Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".

Soon I Will Be Invincible takes characters, settings, and storylines generally associated with the comic book format and re-casts them using the novel's prose format.

Being a Red Sox fan, or an Indians fan, or a Cubs fan, takes character.

It takes character to be a New York City gardener, as Mr. Lytle can attest.

$50 billion can't buy you a hockey medal Vladimir, takes character.

It takes character to prevail and get the meal you want, instead of the waiter's enthusiasms of the evening.

Last year he could do no wrong, but this year there have been plenty of people having pops at him, and it takes character to come through all that.

It takes character to be able to step into someone else's shoes.

Fellowes said the storyline was intended to "take characters to the brink".