"tale" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The story is a sprawling tale of an alluring young actress and dancer in late 19th-century Germany whose only power in a patriarchal society is her desirability to men.
- The highlight there is probably his most recent film The Unjust, a sprawling tale of police corruption with a genuine sense of ambivalence among the random head-poundings.
- Mixed reviews for Rushdie's latest, a sprawling tale of rock 'n' roll mixed with ancient mythology.
- In keeping with its frontier setting, "Shane" tells a sprawling tale straightforwardly.
- Stuart's book, a sprawling tale about 46 members of the Tussies, a real-life family, has been called "a mountaineer version of 'Tobacco Road.' "
- But though it is a sprawling tale that details the experiences of a group of friends in Great Neck, the book is not really about the suburb.
- The transformation of Russia's economy is a sprawling and byzantine tale, and Brady, a former Moscow correspondent for Business Week, is well qualified to tell it.
- It's a sprawling, somewhat unruly, often tedious and magnificently pictorial tale, from a Richard McKenna story.
- At first, Mr. Isaacs and Ms. Mitchell thought the 20 hours originally budgeted would be sufficient to tell the sprawling tale.
- How else can one fit such a sprawling, multilayered tale into a heroic narrative film, let alone a boxed set?
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