"tale" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This operatic tale of entangled attractions takes on another dimension when the count is as seductive as Mr. Mattei.
- A lusty operatic tale in which Eva Marton sings with searing intensity and the conductor sustains tension throughout.
- "Epochal" is all too confining a term for this wildly operatic tale, set in 1242, that glorifies Russia's liberation from invading Teutonic knights and had a strong resonance in 1938 with Hitler and the Germans again threatening from the west.
- These days, "Ermione, " Rossini's operatic tale of shattered love and violence in the wake of the Trojan War, is like an exotic bird.
- The orchestra's purpose, though, is to heighten the theatricality of the voices in what is, after all, a very operatic tale of love and betrayal in the life of Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, the 16th-century Italian composer who killed his wife and her lover.
- Yes, it is a simple operatic tale, which turns on exotic, forbidden love; yes, it is a story of Jews versus Christians drawn from historical annals.
- In "The Godfather," Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 operatic tale of an Italian-American Mafia family, Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) certainly bestows on his children the fruits of his crimes, making them rich and powerful.
- But since its premiere in 1896, audiences have hardly lacked opportunities to experience this operatic tale of ill-fated love among a band of impoverished, defiantly joyful Parisian bohemians in the early days of King Louis Philippe's reign.
- In 1936, soon after the premiere of George Gershwin's operatic tale of black lovers in downtrodden Catfish Row, The New York World-Telegram published an article headlined, "Negroes Are Critical of Porgy and Bess."
- Another year, another "Amahl," as the Little Orchestra Society presents its 23rd annual performance of Gian Carlo Menotti's popular operatic tale of a handicapped boy who is cured by a miracle.
Click on the heading to expand the collocation groups, collocations and sample sentences.