Sentence examples for decent tale from inspiring English sources

The first Twilight film is a very decent tale of high-school angst and teen alienation given an alt-lite grungy edge by Thirteen director Catherine Hardwicke.

Half of it took place on the streets of a drizzly seaside resort in Cornwall - a good old-fashioned media footrace for a decent tale.

But if you can get used to the gloom it's a decent enough tale, about caddish behaviour in the empire, family honour and a tug-of-love across continents.

Given...a half-decent tale of horror, guilt, problem-solving and redemption, Anderson couldn't go far wrong," but, Moore states, "It's only when our Oscar-winning heroine puts down the phone and sets out to do some sleuthing of her own that The Call disconnects, turning into something far more generic and far less exciting".

My relationship status made a decent party tale, provoking a mix of titillation and possibly schadenfreude that could transfix a crowd until I had to change the subject.

"[He] takes an idea that might have made a halfway decent episode of Tales of the Unexpected and inflates it full of to bursting point with hot air and pompous thematic conceits".

Decent acting keeps the tale halfway honest.

King's telling of the puzzling tale is decent, fair and extremely thorough, but often ingenuous.

Valkyrie has been test-screening since August, and is now said to be receiving 80 per cent positive responses from audiences, a surprisingly decent figure for the tale of a one-armed, one-eyed colonel who was killed for attempting to assassinate Hitler with a briefcase bomb.

They are Karen Joy Fowler with We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, a book with a twist best kept under wraps; and Joshua Ferris for To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, a New York tale of existential dentistry, which the academic Jonathan Bate said had every judge laughing out loud.

Well-written and stuffed full with decent recipes and fascinating tales, this is an instant classic".