Sentence examples for devise stories from inspiring English sources

Because we can't explain ourselves to ourselves, we devise stories to do the job for us.

Or devise stories yourself.

He was involved in devising story lines, choosing writers and editing their scripts.

Enda Walsh, who has "mischievously adapted" the book, has had to devise a story to make an evening in the theatre.

When the filmmakers began trying to devise a story for the reboot, Fancher said, "Ridley didn't call me for a year.

His first move was to call his mother, Mariette Kruger, who drove thirty miles from Johannesburg to Kempton Park, and helped him move Ria's body to the bathroom, arrange the crime scene, and devise a story to tell the police.

The group devise a story-telling contest to enliven the journey, the prize being a free meal on their return at the Tabard Inn, which stood in what is now Talbot Yard, at Southwark in London.

Why, when the Unnamable is in similar straits, does he devise the story of a household laid waste by a tin of "fatal corned-beef," contaminated with botulism, so that when a man comes home he finds himself "stamping under foot the unrecognizable remains of my family, here a face, there a stomach, as the case might be, and sinking into them with the ends of my crutches"?

MR James devised his stories in accordance with a series of self-written rules, which stipulated the evocation of "a pleasing terror" without gratuitous sex or bloodshed.

He often devised the stories for their films; The Bold Bank Robbery was no exception.

The story was not following any plan or pre-written plot, with Hergé as usual devising the story on a week-by-week basis.