Sentence examples for conventional tale from inspiring English sources

In some ways, "Bright Star" is a conventional tale of frustrated young love.

Instead he presents a conventional tale of sexual and professional jealousy with oddly dull characters.

But this slight, conventional tale has nothing of Hogg's rigorous formalism or savage honesty.

The stage version, inventively directed by Natalie Abrahami, becomes a more conventional tale of a man consumed and undone by sexual jealousy.

The movie suffers a little in the execution and ends up as a conventional tale wrapped up in a cute but ultimately tissue-thin premise.

In contrast, Number9dream (2001), a thriller about a young Japanese adolescent searching for his father, is set in just one country - modern-day Japan - and, although written in nine separate parts, is a more conventional tale.

If available, authentic tradition would be used, but hagiographers also drew from a stock of conventional tales about earlier saints that were generally intended to convey a moral lesson.

Many gay men will relate to the more conventional tales, such as Nick Alexander's "What You Left Behind" in which fiftysomething Mark has been jilted by "gym-built Jonathan", the latest in a line of short-lived boyfriends.

In Mr Ungerer's books heroic tasks were done by rats, snakes and vultures; conventional tales were retold with unconventional endings (his Little Red Riding Hood happily marries the wolf).

Gould writes: "This assumption the easy slide from current function to reason for origin is, to my mind, the most serious and widespread fallacy of my profession, for it lies embedded in hundreds of conventional tales about pathways of evolution…When you demonstrate that something works well, you have not solved the problem of how, when, or why it arose".

No such longing intrudes during "Prince Charming," a far more conventional fairy tale.