Sentence examples for conte from inspiring English sources
Within the new vogue for the short story, fostered by the demands of the popular press, there was a recrudescence of the conte fantastique, which found its foremost exponent in Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (Contes cruels [1883]; Cruel Tales).
The most famous member of the family is Ugolino della Gherardesca, conte di Donoratico (d. March 1289), who switched allegiance from the Ghibellines to the Guelfs and became tyrannical master of Pisa.
The conte ("tale") called L'Ingénu (1767; "The Naïf"; Eng.
Nodier specialized in the conte fantastique ("fantastic tale") to explore dream worlds or various forms of madness, as in La Fée aux miettes (1832; "The Crumb Fairy"), suggesting the importance of the role of the unconscious in human beliefs and conduct.
The source for Parzival was almost certainly Perceval; ou, le conte du Graal, an unfinished work by Chrétien de Troyes.
Chrétien's ironies and ambiguities invited divergent interpretations, of no work more than the incomplete Perceval; ou, le conte du Graal, which may be the conflation of two unfinished poems.
Jack Conte, one-half of the indie duo Pomplamoose, is confronting this paradox the hard way in the wake of his recent post on Medium in which he lays bare the nuts, bolts, nets and grosses of his group's 24-show American tour.
A first Champions League semi-final in 12 years awaits, Massimiliano Allegri having succeeded in his first campaign in charge where Antonio Conte and Fabio Capello had failed, with the players' celebrations in front of their joyous and vociferous support at the final whistle a reflection of collective relief.
Some of the exact same journalists and bloggers are now lambasting Jack Conte for paying the professional musicians he hired to toured with Pomplamoose (which is usually a two-person band that use loops to fill out their sound).
Shortly before Grygera's equaliser, the home support began to sing the name of Antonio Conte, the club's former captain and the current manager of the Serie B leaders, Bari.
The Juventus manager, Antonio Conte, praised them afterwards, acknowledging that Pirlo had made contact with El Kaddouri but in the end it was his team that left with a record sixth consecutive derby victory.
