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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a tale that makes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a story that evokes a particular feeling or reaction in the reader or listener.
Example: "She told a tale that makes you question your own beliefs and values."
Alternatives: "a story that evokes" or "a narrative that inspires".
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This is especially the case when she plays a woman with a touching monologue about the day in third grade when she "became white," a tale that makes one feel the curse of racism all the more because of the giddy acceptance with which it is related.
You might hear stories that you identify with or a tale that makes you think, "that's just what I would of done in that situation".
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"The Greek House" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), which comes out today, is a charming tale that makes you long for your own youthful days spent on a Greek island, even if you have never been there.
Robert Kolker, who wrote about the murders for New York magazine in 2011, has produced in "Lost Girls" a compelling, nearly unputdownable narrative of the case and its attendant issues; a horrific, cautionary tale that makes for a very different type of beach read.
It's just one of several lowbrow American touches — including the use of a whoopee cushion in a Balinese folk tale — that makes "Adventures of the Puppet Princess," at the Looking Glass Theater, especially amusing to children under 10.
From 1993 to 1995, when he was at the depth of his addiction and would sometimes go six weeks before letting the maids at the Four Seasons into his room, he wrote "The American President," a White House fairy tale that makes "The West Wing" seem like "Notes From the Underground".
It's a "fractured fairy tale" that makes "Swiftian work of 21st century culture, even Guitar Hero and Transformers".
But Mr. Robbins uses that central truth to spin a kind of reductive Manichean morality tale that makes a shambles of history.
And Rivette's "Out 1," a shaggy-dog conspiracy tale that makes itself up as it goes on, is contemporary in its own way.
In fact, "The Last Flight" provides both a touching, old-fashioned drama about war and love (along the lines, say, of the Robert Taylor-Vivien Leigh movie "Waterloo Bridge") and a more modern framing tale that makes us rethink the impulses behind storytelling, and the toll that self-dramatization can take not only on practitioners but also on those who believe and cherish their fictions.
It is the type of corporate takeover tale that makes people fume, especially when it involves a local business that inspired loyalty and affection.
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