Sentence examples for a strange tale from inspiring English sources

One tells a strange tale.

Therein lies a strange tale.

Here they uncover a strange tale of love, religious bigotry, jealousy and repressed passions.

In New York in many ways, it was a strange tale of two cities.

This is a strange tale, about a strange band with a strange name who played strange music.

It is a strange tale into which has been woven a bit from each of the emotions against a background of much grandeur.

I was also very struck by "The Comedy of the White Dog", which starts as a realistic story about sexually uneasy 1950s bohemians, and resolves into a truly strange tale about a monstrous dog claiming droit de seigneur.

This is Andrew Smith's sixth young adult novel — he is perhaps best known for "Marbury Lens," a dark, strange tale about a teenager who is given magic glasses that allow him to peer into a parallel world of giant insects and clawed demons.

Superintendent Joseph R. Fuentes of the state police, however, did hint at a motive in calling the case "a very strange tale of lies, deceit and infidelity".

It has parallels with his latest film "This Must Be the Place," a similarly strange tale in which Sean Penn plays a catatonic, lipsticked rock star in the Robert Smith mold.

When Coetzee was awarded his Nobel prize in 2003, instead of making a speech, he read out a short story, a strange, allusive tale called "He and His Man", ostensibly about Robinson Crusoe and Daniel Defoe, but really about doubles, about a character and his creator, a recluse and his busy, worldly reflection; how they were close, yet could never meet.