Sentence examples for almost a tale from inspiring English sources

"It was almost a tale of two tent cities," he said.

"It's almost a tale of two cities here," said Ms. Lutz, who is 32.

"It's almost a tale of two cities," Rachel Lutz, the thirty-two-year-old owner of the clothing stores, told the Times.

It's almost a tale of two countries — on the same news day, in the same story, in the same sentence, in the violent yoking together of apparent opposites.

"It's almost a tale of two cities," said J. Stephen Perry, president of the New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau, as he sat in the streetcar.

It wasn't actually very long ago, that tremendous conflict -- just over 80 years -- yet in Britain, and in France and in Germany, it seems preserved in our contemporary minds as something almost ancient, a tale of bygone times.

The sight of the picture is among several uncanny details in a book in which Agassi's life unfolds almost like a tale preordained, a clue-strewn riddle of self-discovery laid before him, decades in the unraveling.

Rotkäppchen's rise, however, is almost a fairy tale itself.

"The SunTrust-Wachovia-First Union circus is almost a cautionary tale," Ms. Bush said.

Intense, articulate, and roiling with a sense of barely contained aggression, Carlyle's progress has been almost a cautionary tale for the British film industry.

He falls asleep weeping, then doesn't dare wake up in case "my face would start crying again," which is almost a moral tale.