Sentence examples similar to bitter tales from inspiring English sources
Theirs was mostly a bitter tale, full of abandonments, early death, poverty, orphans and illiteracy.
In 2000 he turned The Death of Ivan Ilyich into a bitter tale of Hollywood as Ivans xtc.
Caniparoli's "The Lottery" is inspired by the Shirley Jackson short story, a bitter tale of social rejection.
But it is on the bitter tale of bedroom treachery inflicted by a lover and best friend on Shit Damn Motherfucker that D'Angelo departs from the strict choreography.
Quartet is not bleakly comic like Ending Up, Kingsley Amis's bitter tale of a tight group of old folk going to pieces in one another's isolated company.
This doesn't, alas, always work out in practice and everyone has her own bitter tale of bad service in individual shops.
Reeling and agitated — "I feel all the faintheartedness of my behavior," he wrote to a friend, "but everything is so terribly broken inside" — Herzen moved to London, and began to write his bitter tale.
-- The bitter tale of Indian-white conflict that unfolded at this spot more than a century ago was told not in blood and battle, but in the legalese and fine print of a contract.
Ignoring almost all of the source novel (a bitter tale of a broken Bond seeking revenge on Blofeld for killing his wife), You Only Live Twice was assembled from ideas thought up by the production team during a long location scout in Japan.
A Fine Day for a Hanging by Carol Ann Lee The story of women in the 1950s would not be complete without telling the bitter tale of the nightclub hostess Ruth Ellis, who in 1955 became the last woman to be hanged in Britain.
