"tale" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- For many of the characters in these inventive tales, the past is disturbing, while the present is strange and vivid.
- "Well now, this is an inventive tale!"
- In Mr. Gross's inventive tale, both fall for a rakish count named Alexis (Jonathan Kells Phillips), who, when the play begins in 1774, is emerging as an aristocratic advocate for the masses.
- The adolescent characters who populate these inventive tales somehow manage to be both quirky and down to earth despite the broken adult relationships around them.
- What one of Mr. Barthelme's listeners wants, she says while gobbling junk food and hearing an old-fashioned, inventive tale, is the "really real."
- On the surface, "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" is a lively, wonderfully inventive comic tale with an updated Arabian Nights background.
- Tarchetti adapted fantastic motifs, reproduced scenes, translated sentences, even, as we now know, plagiarized - yet these strategies resulted in strikingly inventive tales that addressed pressing social issues in Italy.
- In a 2008 article, Dunning calls their story "merely an inventive tale from the mind of a lifelong UFO fanatic.
- This highly inventive, blackly humorous tale, told entirely in rhymed couplets, was written and illustrated by Wilhelm Busch and published in 1865.
- It's not that Powers's endlessly inventive tale doesn't hold together; it's just that you might enjoy it more if you don't sweat all the metaphysical details.
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