Sentence examples for bootstrap tale of the from inspiring English sources
Who can possibly resist the bootstrap tale of the guitar-slinging dervish who spun himself onto the covers of Time and Newsweek simultaneously in 1975 by way of the Jersey Shore?
Where other works of art criticized or observed, the songs of the alterado movement have become objects of outright glorification: up-by-the-bootstraps tales of drug runners, odes to killing and death, traffickers meeting their maker in a blazes of glory.
And at a time when so much of politics is about conveying the authentic personal narrative, Mr. Sims is a natural storyteller with a compelling one to offer, a bootstrap tale about a journey from anger to open arms.
MECHANIQUE A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti.
A Musical Tale of the Ugly Duckling," based on the fairy tale.
It is the kind of up-from-the-bootstraps tale that makes campaign consultants salivate.
The Times rightly asserts that Judge Sonia Sotomayor's "up-by-the-bootstraps tale" is "one reason for her selection" by President Obama for the Supreme Court ("Woman in the News: A Trailblazer and a Dreamer," front page, May 27).
He used Italian words and phrases to add a bit of spice to his immigrant family's up-from-the-bootstraps tale.
