On its face "Bluebeard's Castle" is a straightforward tale, essentially a conversation between husband and wife.
It is a straightforward tale of a disgruntled, insanely perceptive, underemployed postal worker trying to find some kind of meaning amongst his suffocating surroundings.
"So there's no mystery?" "No, it's just a straightforward tale of paedophilia.
The principal issue was that the Medal Factory story was not a straightforward tale of sporting rags to riches.
It's partly a straightforward tale of hustlers on the make in Guangzhou, nicely shot but achingly familiar and thin; in its last half-hour it becomes a Brechtian exercise in which prison inmates are forced to read the radical verses of a policeman poet, an actual figure, Shen Shaoqiu, who plays himself.
This is not a straightforward tale of man proving his doubters wrong, rather another chapter in the love-hate-love story of Clarke and Australia.
One was a straightforward, rather melodramatic tale of cops, villains and, as the short-tempered Tommy would have it, murrdurrr.
On Tuesday at the Clark Studio Theater (Rose Building, 165 West 65th Street, Lincoln Center), where the piece runs through tomorrow, the brightly colored sets, masks and puppet creatures were used highly creatively in a straightforward tale about overcoming differences.
It's much harder to digest than a straightforward tale about another tedious war against aliens, or some bollocks about assassins that slaps history in the face with a sloppy trout before gobbing in its eye.
In as much as the song is about anything, "Bailando" is a straightforward and rather old-fashioned tale of a man who sees a woman dancing and immediately falls in love with her.
