Sentence examples for alluring tales from inspiring English sources

STILL, who can resist the alluring tales of an old haunted hotel, this one including accounts not just of the bride, but of the ghosts of two children who died in the hurricane of 1938 and can be heard running around the halls?

Several varieties of creepy run through "As Good as Dead," a gruesomely alluring tale of long-simmering revenge, but the guy you especially don't want showing up at your door is Frank Whaley.

Adapting material by Joyce Carol Oates, Ms. Skyler conjures an alluring tale of mistrust and hope by getting to the themes of self-deception and betrayal that Oates characters often weave for themselves.

Somewhere in the course of this bizarre tale, the novel degenerates from an alluring story of imagination into a kind of gothic melodrama.

The alluring fairy tale that I call the "princess myth" runs deep in many women from an early age.

The story is a sprawling tale of an alluring young actress and dancer in late 19th-century Germany whose only power in a patriarchal society is her desirability to men.

Records show no such incident, but the tale is so alluring that Mr. Weir and others who were involved with the film are reluctant to question its veracity.

Last year in these pages, Andrea Barrett called the tale "lyrical and alluring," adding that "Annie, despite her resemblance to... the young housemaid who was Cameron's most frequent model, is fully imagined and gloriously herself".

It tells the dark tale of Max Zajack, and the alluring and mysterious Olivia Aphrodite.

"I think one of the things that I suspect makes the show so alluring and seem somewhat like a fairy tale to us in the United States is just how plummy all your accents are," said Colbert to the actors.

A cautionary tale about censorship, government and the alluring emptiness of mass media.