Sentence examples for a modern tale from inspiring English sources

A modern tale of the Arabian Nights.

Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife) and Eddie Campbell (From Hell) penned a modern tale of love and paranoia, called Thursdays, 6-8pm.

Not a modern tale, but one as old as time – the insects have attacked brassica crops, including cauliflower, broccoli and cabbage, as well as kale.

The real Achilles' heel of this book is tone — one made disastrously worse by the author's decision to metamorphose an ancient story of heroes into a modern tale of hormones.

The kingdom of Babylon battles Persian invaders in 539 B.C.; Catherine de Mediciinstigateses the slaughter of the Huguenots in 16th-century France; and, in a modern tale that had its origins in a film by Griffith, a slum couple with a baby struggle against nosy reformers and murder charges.

The film intercuts four stories — the fall of Babylon, in 539 B.C.; the persecution of Jesus; the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, in 1572; and a modern tale that links moralistic efforts at "reform" to a strike, a gangster plot, and a wrongful murder conviction.

She has woven a truly modern tale with a timeless theme.

But beneath the idyllic surface is a darkly modern tale of obsession and paranoia fueled by instruments of a digital age.

Her success is a very modern tale of multi-platform, multi-territory activity.

Solomon's story, far from unique, is a very modern tale of migration, his journey articulating the increasingly desperate scramble from one of the world's most rapacious regimes to a place that Eritreans regard as the promised land.

It really is an intriguing modern tale of communication, intimacy, self-knowledge and the web: a great companion to The Social Network.