Sentence examples for background tale from inspiring English sources

The playwright Tim Slover thought that the true background tale of this iconic oratorio might make a nifty play.

Have a funny story, or give your character a background tale.

There were stints at Daniel, Le Regence and 44, and to each he carried a fairy-tale background story of coming to New York as a refugee from Cambodia and teaching himself his trade at a roadside International House of Pancakes in Queens.

Busch's biographer Joseph Kraus saw these collections as useful additions to folklore, as Busch noted the narrative background to tales and the idiosyncrasies of storytellers.

Everyone has a tale to tell! Have a fascinating background story.

Shore duty on the Solomon Islands in the Pacific gave him the background for "Tales of the South Pacific" (1947), his first book, which won him a Pulitzer Prize but only modest sales until Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein turned it into a hit musical, "South Pacific".

Another box was labelled "Handmaid's Tale: Background," and Atwood pried the box open to reveal files containing sheaves of newspaper clippings from the mid-eighties.

The sisters make token appearances in some stories, but these cameos fail to add enough depth to the family relationships lurking in the background of each tale.

Babenco and Escorel then journeyed into the middle of the Brazilian rain forest for At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991), which created the right mood and background for the tale of well- and ill-meaning Christian missionaries attempting to convert Amazonian Indians.

Also expect a little bit of humour with Mike Bowers, our photographer-at-large capturing what goes on in the background and hear tales from the press gallery.

But the strike makes an unusually painful and character-forming background for such a tale.