Sentence examples for american tale from inspiring English sources

Longtime partners onstage and off, Parker and Kazin borrow from the American Songbook to offer their own sweet and comic variations on the classic American tale of the gay boy who finds salvation in musicals.

That's what makes "Displaced Persons" such a romantic American tale.

Another proud American tale from the pioneering West?

His life story, improbably enough, is a genuine American tale.

The BPA saga is a classic American tale of marginalized, underresourced nonprofit groups agitating for the public good against entrenched commercial interests.

Here was an orderly cluster of 260 or so sandy-colored, two-story town houses that illustrate an all-too-familiar American tale.

And he continued on TV, most suitably as that voice of American tale-telling, Mark Twain, in Roughing It (2002).

THE WONDERFUL SKY BOAT: And Other Native American Tales of the Southeast.

When their present-day descendants can be located, you learn updates of the very American tales of immigrant families who moved on to Queens or Ohio or California.

For a little of that we can turn to Elizabeth Hardwick: "Nathanael West's stunning four novels are American tales, rooted in our transmogrifying soil.

Contesceu comes to research ancient native American tales that werewolves once roamed Sleeping Giant, Mr. Garskof said from Bethany, where he and Ms. Lieberman live.