Sentences with phrase «serves as an adaptation»

«It is believed this extension of cones improves the animal's ability to see particularly along the horizon and serves as an adaptation based on the evolutionary requirement of the animal,» says Dr. Pirie.

Biological reserves and ecological corridors have been either implemented or planned for the maintenance of biodiversity in natural ecosystems, and these can serve as adaptation measures to help protect ecosystems in the face of climate change.

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All liturgical renewal, all changes in the education and way of life of priests, all adaptation of the religious orders to contemporary conditions, the activities of mature laymen as well as the frank dialogue with the present world, all these must only serve the love of God and one's neighbour in the unfeigned faith which will always be foolishness and scandal to the wise and prudent of this world.

Martin Scorese's film adaptation of the acclaimed book tells the story of persecution, martyrdom and faith involving two Jesuit priests who serve as missionaries to Japan in the 1600s.

The adaptation (starring Hugh Jackman, Rooney Mara and Amanda Seyfried among others), serves as a darker take on the classic tale as well as a sort of Captain Hook origins story.

Further, all that can rationally be said about that absent requires it to be viewed as interacting with human purpose, as itself conforming in all respects to the purpose of order and law, and also as exhibiting telic adaptations serving the ends of life and beauty and sublimity.35

As Karen McCarthy Brown notes in Gods of the City, «serving the spirits» of rural Haiti in a Brooklyn high rise requires a lot of adaptation.

Part of this adaptation is the process of transferring their feelings for the parent onto an object that serves as an emotional substitute.

Through Exultant Ark Jonathan Balcombe makes the case that, although much of animal behaviour has come about as the result of evolutionary adaptation to serve a straightforwardly practical function, there are elements of play that require a more joyful explanation.

These results suggest that elevation - related differences in song structure in chickadees might serve as a signal for local adaptation.

Caves serve as fascinating evolutionary laboratories and are home to a variety of species, many of which have converged on adaptations allowing them to thrive underground.

Geographical variation in song dialect may reflect acoustic adaptation to different environments and / or serve as a signal of local adaptation.

However, paradoxically, more recent research has demonstrated that increased free radical production post-exercise actually serves as an important signaling mechanism for favorable training adaptations.

Sony has released three new teasers for the long - awaited — and long - delayed — The Dark Tower, and each serves as a bit of a primer on the complicated world of the Stephen King adaptation, outlining the central conflict between Idris Elba's good guy gunslinger and Matthew McConaughey's nefarious Man In Black.

Since they first collaborated on 2002's Far From Heaven, Ed Lachman has been an integral part of Todd Haynes» core team, serving as cinematographer on films as complex as the director's experimental 2007 Bob Dylan biography I'm Not There or as straightforward as 2015's Patricia Highsmith adaptation Carol.

This posed some challenges for the film adaptation, which needed to serve as a gateway to the later installments» more serious storytelling.

A Single Man Tom Ford's adaptation of the Christopher Isherwood novel, about a gay man grieving over the death of his lover, is a bleak, intelligent film that serves as a showcase for what may be Colin Firth's finest film performance, the ultimate elucidation of the character he has been playing, in one form or another, for years: The man who feels too much to allow himself to show it.

He also helped develop another one of the network's TV adaptations of a classic action franchise, serving as an executive producer on the Lethal Weapon TV show.

Love Liza serves as an interesting correlative to P.T. Anderson's Punch - Drunk Love (and Cronenberg's Spider, and Jonze's Adaptation.)

McConaughey next served as executive producer and co-star of «Sahara,» an ambitious action / comedy / romance adaptation of Clive Cussler's best - selling novel.

Webb, whose feature film credits also include «(500) Days of Summer,» will also serve as executive producer on CBS's upcoming adaptation of the Bradley Cooper feature «Limitless» as well as The CW's «Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,» both of which he directed the pilots for.

Following our brief interview with the actress, production designer Robb Wilson King, who served in the same capacity on the second film alongside Roth and received his first credit as such on Wes Craven's 1982 comic - book adaptation «Swamp Thing», took us on an extended tour of the historic complex.

A year's worth of advertising have insisted this isn't Herman Melville's «Moby Dick», but rather an adaptation of Nathaniel Philbrick's historical bestseller; a telling of the true [* cough *] events that befell The Essex whaleship in 1820, the very same that would serve as inspiration for The Greatest Novel In The English Language.

Among the highlights include the world premiere of Chris Evans» directorial debut «Before We Go» (formerly «1:30 Train»), dueling Anna Kendrick films in dark drama «Cake» and musical adaptation «The Last Five Years,» ensemble comedy «This is Where I Leave You» starring Corey Stoll, Adam Driver and more, Jason Reitman's «Men, Women and Children» with Ansel Elgort, Kaitin Dever and others, and «99 Homes,» Ramin Bahrani's financial world set drama which also serves as the first film outside of «The Amazing Spider - Man» franchise for Andrew Garfield since «The Social Network.»

To me, this film is just a mix of Kaufman's Adaptation meets Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs with some Seven Samurai homages that serve as seasoning.

He also served as an Executive Producer on Netflix's film adaptation of Josh Karpe's bestselling novel A FUTILE & STUPID GESTURE, as well as the Warner Bros box office hit CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE starring Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart.

Banshee's Adam Targum is serving as showrunner, and the project is said to be targeted towards «cable networks and streaming services,» two other entities that can't resist a good comic book adaptation.

Directed by frequent Tim Burton collaborator and «Nightmare Before Christmas» helmer Henry Selick, «Monkeybone» is a real visual treat that serves as an equally good comic adaptation as it does a comedic extravaganza in its own right.

Even balancing a jarring, time - hopping narrative, the film manages to work as a stellar action movie of the time, while serving as a solid comic book adaptation in its own right.

Kurzel is aided in his Shakespeare adaptation by some evocative cinematography of the forbidding Scottish heathland that served as the shooting location, but otherwise there is little to suggest a particularly original or eye - opening slant on the tragedy.

Flanagan's adaptation streamlines the storytelling, reviving Gerald (or, at least, Jessie's hallucination of Gerald) early on to serve as the voice of every primal fear and traumatic memory that leaps to the front of Jessie's mind as the hours turn into days.

This loose adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's play, written and directed by John Huston (with Richard Brooks serving as co-scripter), casts Bogart as Frank McCloud, a WWII veteran who arrives in Key Largo, Florida, to pay his respects to James and Nora Temple (Lionel Barrymore and Bacall), the father and widow of one of his friends killed in action.

Director Andrea Arnold takes the revisionist route with her adaptation of Wuthering Heights, refashioning the Emily Bronte chestnut to serve as a treatise on race as well as class.

Philip Seymour Hoffman received a 2007 Drama Desk Award Nomination for Best Actor in Jack Goes Boating off - Broadway, and now the film adaptation serves as his directorial debut.

A feature - length adaptation of the late - 80s television series for which Mann served as executive producer and unofficial show - runner, Vice marks an important shift for Hollywood in the digital era for the way it actively engaged with the implications of a technological change most had simply taken for granted, and it does so by both wholly embracing its mode of production and reflecting the consequences of doing so.»

Coming full - circle from the wry noir of Blood Simple and Fargo and presenting itself eventually as of a piece with a later Coen noir, The Man Who Wasn't There (just as A Serious Man is a companion piece to Barton Fink), The Big Lebowski serves as the transition point in that process while also moving the brothers from broad genre takedowns to a very specific kind of literary adaptation.

Oscar - nominated Fatal Attraction filmmaker Adrian Lyne and O'Dell wrote the screenplay adaptation of the novel with Lyne serving as EP.

The movie studio has been considering several actors for the title role in their big screen adaptation of the comic book, about a neurosurgeon who serves as the Sorcerer Supreme, protecting Earth against mystical threats.

I was lucky enough to check it out beforehand, and the movie serves as an extremely faithful adaptation and expansion of the first three games, with several nods to the series» long and nightmarish history.

Jeff Buhler (Jacob's Ladder) wrote the adaptation for television and will executive produce alongside Daniel Cerone (The Blacklist) who will also serve as showrunner.

As a result, he decided on a couple of adaptations; the first was Michael Crichton's «Disclosure» followed by «Sleepers ``, the controversial novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra, which served as a reminder that Levinson still had something to offeAs a result, he decided on a couple of adaptations; the first was Michael Crichton's «Disclosure» followed by «Sleepers ``, the controversial novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra, which served as a reminder that Levinson still had something to offeas a reminder that Levinson still had something to offer.

It's an adaptation of the iconic 1980s series on which Mann served as executive producer, and strikes off in boldly different ways from the Armani blazers and eye - searing pastels of its predecessor.

These suggested guidelines, based on best practices gathered through experience, serve as an example for adaptation in the course syllabus and will assist in managing the online workload.

A customized Ford Mustang will serve as one of the stars in an upcoming movie adaptation of the «Need For Speed» video game franchise.

In addition, Warner Bros. will serve as the worldwide TV distributor (excluding the U.K.) of J.K. Rowling's upcoming television adaptation for the BBC of «The Casual Vacancy,» her best - selling first novel aimed at adult audiences.

The project — entitled Sustainable Tourism through Energy Efficiency with Adaptation and Mitigation Measures in Pangandaran — aims to serve as a model of innovative climate change mitigation and adaptation measures in tourism destinations in Indonesia and south - Adaptation and Mitigation Measures in Pangandaran — aims to serve as a model of innovative climate change mitigation and adaptation measures in tourism destinations in Indonesia and south - adaptation measures in tourism destinations in Indonesia and south - east Asia.

Period drama fans will recognise the rolling Cornish landscapes, flowing coastline and mining heritage that serve as a backdrop to the popular TV adaptation of the epic Poldark saga.

Out Run could therefore serve as a loving homage to the 70s and 80s era of car - based movies, as well as an adaptation of a much - loved coin - op.

The appearance of Albert Bierstadt's landscape Mountain Scene (1880 - 90) in both The Age of Innocence (1993) and The Hunger Games (2012) serves as the basis for Mathis Gasser's Grasshopper (Mountain Scene)(2015 - 16), in which he reproduces the original painting twice and hangs the pair beside a screen playing footage from the 2015 - 16 TV adaptation of Philip K. Dick's Man in the High Castle, a series that deals with the role of cultural artefacts in imagining counterfactual histories.

Retrieved from the streets, from the Internet or from the world of museums, they serve as tragicomic testimonies of our processes of adaptation in a capitalistic environment.