Sentence examples for a straightforward tale of from inspiring English sources

The game won't just be a straightforward tale of angst and self-discovery though.

"So there's no mystery?" "No, it's just a straightforward tale of paedophilia.

The principal issue was that the Medal Factory story was not a straightforward tale of sporting rags to riches.

Rather than telling a straightforward tale of good versus evil, Jones has instead opted to find heroes on each side of the conflict.

"Ocean's Kingdom" is, in many ways, an old-fashioned story ballet: a tuneful, tonal, orchestral work, in four movements, that accompanies a straightforward tale of love, complete with a princess.

It's partly a straightforward tale of hustlers on the make in Guangzhou, nicely shot but achingly familiar and thin; in its last half-hour it becomes a Brechtian exercise in which prison inmates are forced to read the radical verses of a policeman poet, an actual figure, Shen Shaoqiu, who plays himself.

The comic "Kick-Ass 2" is a lean, unpleasant piece of work, with a slight, straightforward tale of blood and revenge, so Jeff Wadlow, in taking over duties as writer-director from Matthew Vaughn, had to expand on the story.

At first blush the two films bookending this 20-year run — the first a cynical, straightforward tale of black teenagers fighting and dying on the streets of Los Angeles, the most recent a twisting, turning crime drama about New York City politics — would seem to have just about nothing in common.

Parkin noted how the "excellent" script unfurled from a "straightforward tale" into "breadth and depth of quality that few titles many times its budget achieve" with "affecting scenes" and "unexpected impact".

THE WRESTLER A straightforward tale, given tremendous extra punch by its leading man.

On its face "Bluebeard's Castle" is a straightforward tale, essentially a conversation between husband and wife.