Sentence examples for a peculiar tale from inspiring English sources
It's a peculiar tale, drawing heavily upon a range of somewhat obvious sources (Picnic At Hanging Rock, Lord of the Flies, Heavenly Creatures etc) but still finding its own oddly off-kilter voice.
When the American travel writer David Farley learned that a controversial Roman Catholic relic — the circumcised foreskin of the infant Jesus — had suddenly vanished in 1983 from the Italian village of Calcata, where it had been an object of pilgrimages and a mainstay of the local economy for centuries, he suspected herein lay a peculiar tale, to say the least.
The rise of the Xalisco networks is a peculiar tale of dope, poverty and business smarts that connects a remote corner of Mexico with vast stretches of America's heartland.
John of Fordun has a peculiar tale to tell, related to the supposed "Laws of Malcolm MacKenneth", saying that Máel Coluim gave away all of Scotland, except for the Moot Hill at Scone, which is unlikely to have any basis in fact.
Step right up for "a most peculiar tale of mystery and horror, and of unrelenting woe".
Studies have shown that when a flavor is marketed to consumers as a specific botanical type — evocative of a place or a culture, or complete with some peculiar tale of discovery — people are more likely to enjoy it.
By various opposing accounts, the peculiar tale may shape up as a battle for control over the actor between a Mafia extortion crew, which threatened his life, and Buddhist advisers who voiced concern for his afterlife.
Instead, the Ewalts arrived to tell their peculiar tale.
In this captivating double portrait, Cumming exhumes the little that is known of the Spanish artist and courtier through the peculiar tale of one of his most passionate devotees.
In "When Skateboards Will Be Free," Mr. Sayrafiezadeh recounts, as if he were telling a peculiar bedtime story, the tale of growing up with (and without) his parents, ardent members of the Socialist Workers Party.
There is nothing new about such peculiar tales - in 1995 a stolen painting was delivered to our offices in Christmas wrapping paper, while five years ago 2003 works by Picasso, Van Gogh and Gauguin were recovered from a disused public toilet.
