Sentence examples for ambitious tale from inspiring English sources

The result is a "haunting and ambitious" tale, Jennifer Reese said here in 2001.

"The talent he shows in this ambitious tale will have them burning his effigy in every branch of Borders".

Hussein's The Weary Generations, an ambitious tale of social struggle in the partition era, was a bestseller in Urdu.

Weaving her psychologically ambitious tale into the loose threads of Brontë's original, Tennant creates a zigzagging drama in which Jane Eyre herself barely features.

(Neil Genzlinger) 'DEFIANCE' The second play in John Patrick Shanley's cycle of morality dramas that began with "Doubt," this ambitious tale of racial relations and the military mindset on a North Carolina marine base feels both overcrowded and oddly diffuse.

This first novel by the chief executive of Penguin India is a sprawling, ambitious tale of a Christian family in southern India whose fortunes are buffeted by the tumult of history in the decades leading up to independence.

Indeed, several authors on the Orange long list have drawn deeply on their own life events, but they have used them to create bigger, ambitious tales, that speak louder than lazily fictionalised personal anecdote could ever do.

The nostalgic signifiers here are mere decoration for an ambitious autobiographical tale with a substance that transcends the age of Cheryl Tiegs and "Purple Rain".

Based on the 2007 novel by Mohsin Hamid, this is an ambitious, heartfelt tale of divided loyalties in a world where complacent belief in the triumph of globalised capital was shattered by the Twin Towers attack.

For White Christmas he expertly twines the two styles in an ambitious multi-stranded tale.

Start with two small, ambitious, well-told tales garbed as scary movies that leave us w lessons about what it means to be a family, how to cope with loss and how to make an excellent film.