Sentence examples for that he adapted from inspiring English sources

The production, directed by Ted Sperling from a concert script that he adapted with Edward Barnes, maintained a lighthearted attitude that tilted the evening away from satire and toward entertainment.

Morgenstern," and Marathon Man (1974), a thriller that he adapted for the screen two years later.

"Other coaches are more cookie-cutter," she said, noting that he adapted her training schedule to her personal life.

In a telephone interview, Mr. Hale said that he adapted tools used to gauge the performance of jet aircraft to make his calculations.

Nolan's breakthrough came with the 2000 film Memento, a sleeper hit that he adapted from a short story written by his brother Jonathan.

Verdi believed so strongly in the music to "Stiffelio" that he adapted the score to a new libretto, turning the minister into a medieval crusader.

Davies said that the producer Sean O'Connor suggested that he adapt one of Terence Rattigan's plays.

A group of Polish actors visiting Madrid, he said, suggested that he adapt Potocki's book, a collection of 66 interwoven tales.

Mr. Carter's most notable Hollywood connection came when he suggested to Mr. Grazer, the chief executive of Imagine, that he adapt "A Beautiful Mind," a 1998 book about the mathematical genius John Nash by Sylvia Nasar, a former reporter for The New York Times.

Once upon a time in the early sixties, the composer Mary Rodgers suggested to her gloomy father, the composer Richard Rodgers, that he adapt for Broadway Elizabeth Spencer's novella "The Light in the Piazza" (which occupied almost an entire issue of this magazine in 1960); the great man demurred.

When he adapted that entrée for Mission Chinese, he had to increase the amount of chicken to make it palatable for American eaters (and, presumably, to add value).