Sentence examples for was actually adapted from inspiring English sources

Did you know the movie Gremlins was actually adapted from a novel?

A 1951 French film set in a girls' boarding school was released in the United States as The Pit of Loneliness to capitalize on the notoriety of The Well, but was actually adapted from the novel Olivia, now known to have been written by Dorothy Bussy.

Not that two cinematic masterworks of high-end decadence are actually adapted to Shakespeare's magical fantasyland.

Yet the drama is actually adapted, uncredited, from Stefan Zweig's 1922 novella "Letter from an Unknown Woman" (which the director Max Ophüls also filmed, in 1948).

She had discovered, by watching thousands of them jump, that they were actually adapted for flight, and that the jumping flea developed an acceleration on take-off 20 times that of a moon rocket re-entering the Earth's atmosphere.

The article is actually adapted from Zappos co-founder and CEO Tony Hsieh's new book, Delivering Happiness, while Purpose.

And Potts adds that the new findings do not prove that the Happisburgh hominins were actually adapted to the colder conditions, as the authors suggest.

Among the various uses that entities ranging from the NSA to the Pentagon to the State Department could make of such of McConnell's proposals as are actually adapted, the marginalization and rendering harmless of Wikileaks comes to mind.

However, next to nothing is known about gene expression in arctic plants, which are actually adapted to a harsh, cold environment.

The variations in the field are much greater, but few authors acknowledge that acquired results are strongly influenced by the growth conditions employed, and even fewer consider how the results may have differed had the experiments been performed under conditions that plants are actually adapted to, i.e. variable field conditions.

Scans have shown that metabolic activity in many parts of the brain surges during workouts, but it was unknown whether those active brain cells were actually adapting and changing.