Sentence examples for a tale of fear from inspiring English sources

It is a tale of fear, degradation and abusive dysfunction – a violent and disorientating nightmare with a shiver of Coppola's Apocalypse Now.

What was once the most inspiring, heart-gushing film of the past year has now become a tale of fear and hellish abominations.

The story of how it arrived here, in Jerusalem, is a tale of ancient fears and modern prejudices, one that touches on one of the rawest nerves in Israeli society: the clash of cultures between Jews from Arab countries and the European Jews, or Ashkenazim, who controlled the country during its formative years.

"It is a tale of stupidity, incompetence, fear, intimidation, lying, downright wickedness and corruption in high places".

The same actors playing their ancestor-counterparts also dramatise a tale that brings the past into parallel with the present, a tale of thwarted romance, tribal fear, and sexual politics: a tale with something of the Iliad in the way the belligerent males talk themselves into doing battle with enemies over the assumed abduction of one of the womenfolk.

It is a tale of penury, perdition and fear, of babes in the woods and, potentially, failure.

Either way, this is a tale of culture, hyper growth, and fear that metastasized into a mess.

But somehow, this tale of fear and loathing in Tudor England is transformed by switching the perspective from the main players to the unassuming but politically perspicacious Thomas Cromwell, the king's legal adviser.

It is easy to see why that writer mother sent Nancy's story to her agent: the book is stylish and incisive, and she weaves her tale of fear and food, confusion and calories grippingly and with skill.

Fear of contradicting a tale of Soviet heroism amid Nazi atrocities.

A tale of war.