Sentence examples for classical tale from inspiring English sources

In Haitink's spacious interpretation, this classical tale of nymphs and shepherds was vividly told.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal's libretto puts a fanciful twist on the classical tale of Helen's part in the Trojan War.

Although the customers tip him well, his is not the classical tale of a pauper or immigrant trying to buff his way up the American ladder on a smile and someone else's shoeshine.

However Sam - still in thrall to his service - is taken by another classical tale, recalling with pride Churchill's remark that the supposedly "Forgotten Army" that fought in Burma was a force "the like of which had not been seen since Xerxes crossed the Hellespont".

Is this all?" The classical tale of the virtuous Roman who kills herself out of shame after her rape by a brutal occupying ruler would have had particular significance for its audience when the piece was premiered at Glyndebourne in 1946.

In such fanciful elaborations of Scriptures, Haggada does not disdain to draw on Classical tales from ancient Greece and Rome.

The centaurs' origins are legendary, but the legends that they pass down among themselves are very different from the classical tales we know.

His various symbolic prose poems, which were published in the collection Yecao (1927; Wild Grass), as well as his reminiscences and retold classical tales, all reveal a modern sensibility informed by sardonic humour and biting satire.

As James Wood says in his introduction - an excellent commission, by the way - "Bellow's stories seem to divide into two kinds: long, loose-edged stories, which read as if they began life as novels... and short, almost classical tales, which often recount the events of a single day".

Those are the two correct subdivisions of his shorter works, but it could have been put another way: that the first of two kinds of Bellow stories are, indeed, the short, classical tales, in which the narrator recalls an incident or a period in his early life, growing up in the Depression as a first- or second-generation Jewish immigrant in the mid-west of America.

She has also studied at the Yale School of Drama specialising in adapting classical tales for a modern audience.