Sentence examples for decent yarn from inspiring English sources
Call me old fashioned, but I like a decent yarn to run the course of my shooty-bang-bangs, and that's precisely what the Halo series has delivered in the past.
1948's Rope, a decent enough yarn starring James Stewart, concerns two young men attempting the perfect murder.
Acedia, incompetence and ferrocement -- all the makings of a decent sea yarn.
Brent MacKnight rated the series five out of ten, calling it a "decent enough action yarn with slick production values," but was critical that the series was "more concerned with gratuitous nudity each episode includes a lifetime's worth of breasts and butt cheeks than creating a story with any substance, character, or emotional weight".
Or maybe they're just here for a decent bit of storytelling and a good East End yarn.
And a very decent fist of that was made in Alexander Armstrong's Real Ripping Yarns, an unabashedly loving tribute to the programme itself – and also to the inspiration behind it all, the Boy's Own Paper.
The tale is odd enough that it should have resulted in a pretty good yarn, and Mr. Krane and Mr. Cole, who have each had modest success on New York and regional stages, should have been able to fashion a decent musical out of the whole thing.
What could be more pertinent than a yarn in which an arrogant, number-crunching city slicker regains her humanity when faced with decent, hard-working everyday folks in the provinces?
