"story" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The Iconography's many writers lead the reader through picaresque stories about the humble as well as praising famous men.
- And Mr. Teevan's play, trying desperately to compress Svejk's picaresque story for the stage, is antic and inventive but has little power to grip an audience.
- It tells the picaresque story of a poor African American man on his flight from the white authority.
- He wrote his first novel Hurry on Down in 1953, a comic picaresque story about an unsettled university graduate who rejects the standards of conventional society.
- Her reminiscences recount the picaresque story of her journey through Los Angeles's labyrinthine foster care system, while chronicling her efforts to come to terms with her formidable and frightening mother.
- Her picaresque stories and essays explore a lifelong love affair with the city, with her work embodying the permeability between fiction and reality characteristic of the LA imaginary.
- Essential to the environmental form, Mr. Prince said, is "something of a picaresque story, with all these different places to go to."
- Since these are the scenes in which the picaresque story ebbs away to reveal a hard, dark core of meaning, the production concludes on a powerful note.
- Unlike the innovations in "The Burn" and other earlier Aksyonov works, such passages feel less like daring, formalistic experiments than gratuitous bits of whimsy grafted onto a less-than-successful picaresque story.
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