Sentence examples for a powerful tale from inspiring English sources

Masterfully related in the in-between moments of Ron's recording session is a powerful tale of betrayal and deceit.

The Tunisian author Kamel Riahi, in his novel, The Gorilla, tells a powerful tale with several shifts of perspective.

His "rags to riches" story is a powerful tale of upward mobility in India's strict caste system.

The notorious Nineties shocker Bad Lieutenant may have been directed by Driller Killer helmsman Abel Ferrara, but this lurid tale of rape, drugs, squalor and salvation is now rightly hailed as a powerful tale of redemptive Catholicism.

Azmi himself had a major role in Saeed Akhtar Mirza's award-winning film Naseem (1995; "Morning Breeze"), a powerful tale of a Muslim family's fears as they witness the communal frenzy in the days before the demolition in 1992 of Ayodhya's Babri Masjid (built in the 16th century by the Mughal emperor Babur).

With "Half a Life" he has given us a powerful tale of one man's journey from childhood to middle age while at the same time creating a resonant parable about the convulsions of modern history, both the dying of old inequities and the rise of new illusions, and their spiritual legacy of homelessness and dislocation.

The documentary "Bridegroom," written and directed by Linda BlofDesigningomason (of "Designing Women" fame), is a poignant, powerful tale of first love and untimely death as well as a practical, frankly undeniable, plea for marriage equality.

While Catriona (U.S. title, David Balfour, 1893) marked no advance in technique or imaginative scope on Kidnapped, to which it is a sequel, The Ebb-Tide (1894), a grim and powerful tale written in a dispassionate style (it was a complete reworking of a first draft by Lloyd Osbourne), showed that Stevenson had reached an important transition in his literary career.

Richard was the model for Billy Casper in his brother's book A Kestrel for a Knave and the subsequent film Kes, and tells a moving and powerful tale of the redemptive powers of nature.

What ensues is a tragic and powerful tale of love and hate, tragedy and rebirth.

As the daughter of Indian immigrants in Britain in the 1970s, Syal's eyes were opened to the grim reality of racism and to the nature of being an outsider when she read To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee's powerful tale of racism in the American south, and The Crucible, Miller's chilling play about witch hunts.