Sentence examples for text adapted from inspiring English sources

ROOM Based on the writings of Virginia Woolf, text adapted by Jocelyn Clarke.

We had a coffee, and he mentioned Satyagraha, his 1980 opera about Gandhi's early years in South Africa whose text, adapted from the Bhagavad Gita, is in Sanskrit.

The text, adapted from an 18th-century book by Jean-François de Bastide, is a kind of titillating real estate brochure.

Many cast members – collaborators on a text adapted and directed by Vladimir Shcherban – have been arrested, detained and attacked but are still putting their lives on stage.

On Saturday the work that most exemplified Monteverdi's innovations was "Lamento della Ninfa," a setting of a text adapted by Ottavio Rinuccini.

His first opera, Scherz, List und Rache (Jest, Deceit, and Revenge, text adapted from a work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), was performed in 1858.

But when the score is at its most conventionally operatic, particularly in the opening scenes between Toby and Zenna, the vocal lines are banal, adding nothing to exchanges that could have been spoken, while Mitchell's text adapts uneasily to being sung at the best of times.

Cardinal Napier told reporters that the decision would "arrest" his church's effort to produce vernacular texts adapted to local parishioners.

The following text is adapted from a speech given to the 2012 Whiting Award winners.

By Jeffrey Eugenides December 21 , 2012The following text is adapted from a speech given to the 2012 Whiting Award winners.

This text was adapted from the forthcoming book "Questionnaire," by Evan Kindley, part of Bloomsbury Academic's series Object Lessons.