Sentence examples for brilliant tale from inspiring English sources

It's a brilliant tale of hard work, patriotism and bearing the weight of a nation's love.

I'm thinking, for example, of Sigrid Nunez's fifth novel, The Last of Her Kind, a dark, brilliant tale centred on two college classmates in the 1960s.

Robert Wade and Neal Purvis said: "Len Deighton's SS-GB is a brilliant tale of espionage that dares to think the unthinkable, and we are very excited to be adapting it for television".

Billy Strayhorn was only 16 when he wrote the majority of Lush Life, yet it's a brilliant tale of failed romances and lives wasted in the mistaken pursuit of illusions.

Don't miss the superbly under-stated revival of Howard Goodall's brilliant tale of Cumbrian life, The Hired Man, which is still at the Mercury in Colchester this weekend before heading to the Curve in Leicester next Friday, and Caroline Horton's Edinburgh hit, Mess, inspired by her own experience of anorexia, is at the Parabola Arts Centre in Cheltenham.

Paths of Glory (1957) is now re-released for the 1914 anniversary: this brilliant tale of macabre futility and horror in the trenches was adapted by Kubrick, Calder Willingham and pulp master Jim Thompson from a 1935 novel by Herbert Cobb, in turn inspired by a real incident.

Even Boccaccio's brilliant tales in The Decameron are pretty much of a piece, stylistically.

I promised myself that when they were older, I'd take out a subscription to a weekly fun comic or story paper that was full of original characters and brilliant tales.

Hopefully, we all also know how good they are at making beauitful and brilliant tales of darkness; some kind of wayfaring Americana bleakness, coated in soot, broken boned, sore, and scabbed, always with that brooding beauty that Michael Gira knows how to bend and shape and control at his will.

In the assessment of Celticist Nora Chadwick, "the tale is told with brilliant narrative power": its terseness, humour and laconic brevity is reminiscent of the best of the Icelandic sagas.

It's a brilliant dystopian tale and a great re-interpretation of the Guy Fawkes story so it fits the brief perfectly, right?