Adjective : true-life episodes.    From Dictionary.com. 

The novel is in turn based on a true-life tragedy.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

A true-life story that reads like a spy novel -- Betty.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2006] Reference

Well, here's some true-life terror from the teen years.    From Wordnik.com.  [The WritingYA Weblog: A Trip Through the Wayback Machine] Reference

The end where you say this is based on true-life events.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phantoms and Shadows] Reference

She provided a true-life example of the gravity of breast cancer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Linda Milazzo: Ann Richards and Molly Ivins Ain't Done with Us Yet!] Reference

Her true-life account of a Neo-Nazi victim was published in 2007.    From Wordnik.com.  [BOX OF BALLOONS • by Robin Vandenberg Herrnfeld] Reference

Alice reveres Tatischeff, who she regards as a true-life magician.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edinburgh film festival review: The Illusionist] Reference

And here are some things you should not say (all are true-life examples).    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Melcher: What to Do When Your Friend Writes a Book] Reference

I can give them a few true-life story lines certain to entertain everyone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sara Whitman: Bearded Lesbians] Reference

I was not expecting that and my sympathies if this comes from true-life experiences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phantoms and Shadows] Reference

And sometimes, a true-life story can ring absolutely false if it's told the wrong way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anis Shivani: Adam Langer, Author of "The Thieves of Manhattan": Exclusive Huffington Post Interview] Reference

The story is adapted from Lynn Barber's eight-page true-life essay in Granta magazine.    From Wordnik.com.  ['An Education' teaches a vivid lesson in life, love] Reference

Also Oprah Winfrey duped again by an author who claimed to be telling his true-life story.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2008] Reference

Here are some things that you might say when your friend writes a book (all true-life examples).    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Melcher: What to Do When Your Friend Writes a Book] Reference

He and his life-mate are true-life compatriots who wear their affection dearly as ordinary clothes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference

The youngest partisan: I shall fear no evil: the true-life adventure of A. Romi Cohn by A. Romi Cohn.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Obama's fiercest opponent in Ohio? Misinformation and Prejudice] Reference

The dialogue and actions of the teens really do not represent a true-life, average American teenager.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ask Matt: Post-Emmys, Plus Fall Preview, Secret Life, Huge, Weeds, Persons Unknown and More] Reference

I will tell it to all my friends that I met in my true-life of casualfriends site that casual friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exclusive: Senator Chris Dodd Will Put A Hold On Telecom Immunity Bill] Reference

I will tell it to all my friends that I met in my true-life of casual friends site that casual friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exclusive: Senator Chris Dodd Will Put A Hold On Telecom Immunity Bill] Reference

It's about -- it's based on a true-life story about a teenage suburban drug dealer named Jesse James Hollywood.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 27, 2006] Reference

And yet those qualities are also recovered in "Blueberry Summer," an ably crafted, true-life coming-of-age tale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coming of Age at Lakeside] Reference

As the war drags on, such true-life experiences no doubt will multiply -- and so will listeners seeking an escape.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Respite From The War] Reference

To dig into a true-life news story that has gotten you so worked up, you want to get to the bottom of the mystery?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adam Baer: Striking Out: Writing Without the WGA in LA] Reference

With layoffs and cutbacks dominating the headlines, demand for advice books based on true-life stories is peaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Me, Me, Me] Reference

I've written about men in law enforcement before, but I find the Texas Ranger to be a unique example of the true-life hero.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Ranger's Wife]

A fine British cast overact or underact in this perfunctory true-life tale of a working-class lad from a sink estate in south London.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kid] Reference

His true-life accounts of street people and other sundry interesting folk are some of the finest writing I've laid my eyes on lately.    From Wordnik.com.  [joegood Diary Entry] Reference

Nonetheless, I must assert that the following pages recount the early days and years of my true-life association with Sherlock Holmes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beekeeper's Apprentice]

Yet Julian Schnabel's magnificent French-language film, like its true-life subject, transcends reality's prison with surreal buoyancy.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Diving Bell and] Reference

Still to come in the next 30 minutes, O.J. Simpson, J.nBenet Ramsey, Laci Peterson, America fascinated with these true-life crime stories.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2005] Reference