Sentence examples for a failed tale from inspiring English sources

These folks will heal your wounded soul with booze in hand after a failed tale and help you get up to tell again.

A reissue of the acclaimed short-story writer's only novel, first published in 1994: the fragmentary tale of a failed love affair that an unnamed narrator is struggling to turn into a novel.

The Sportswriter, the tale of a failed novelist turned sportswriter who suffers an existential crisis following the death of his son, was published in 1986 to almost immediate acclaim.

The first-person shooter Bioshock used it to devastating effect in its tale of a failed underwater utopia, experienced via the duplicitous voice of Frank Fontaine; while the psychological horror game Heavy Rain famously pulled a character plot twist so audacious, some players could barely forgive the writers for their transgression.

Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] in VenezuelaSIR – Two articles on events in Venezuela between April 11th and 13th are marred by inaccuracies and what some might characterise as a slur ("Tales from a failed coup", April 27th).

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She increasingly appeared in tabloids reporting on a succession of failed relationships and tales of excess.

The second act finds him visiting a Croatian family that shares his unusual name, and here his ear begins to fail; the tale becomes meandering.

Billy Strayhorn was only 16 when he wrote the majority of Lush Life, yet it's a brilliant tale of failed romances and lives wasted in the mistaken pursuit of illusions.

No one has failed to hear tales of scouts who discover some beauty working in a doughnut shop, who dangle promises of wealth, fame and escape from the family pig farm (true story) and then hand her strict instructions to shed the excess cruller pounds.

The former, the picaresque tale of a failed-before-he-starts screenwriter named Bud Wiggins, was chock-full of excruciatingly painful scenes of humiliation for its clueless antihero and lots of composite portraits of Hollywood figures that should have gotten Wagner banned from Morton's.