Sentence examples similar to exact tale from inspiring English sources

I've gone through this wordless tale dozens of times and still can't frame an exact story line.

The fix? From July 20 to 23 — nearly the exact run of Tales — Dram will be supplanted by a pop-up dive bar called 86'd, which is to be run by two of Dram's lesser-known staff members.

The Brothers Grimm with their Kinder und Hausmärchen (1812 15) have as their ideal the exact recording of tales as heard from oral tellers, though it is clear that many stories in their famous work are not folk literature at all.

The exact origin of the tale may be cloudy, but what is clear, Mr. Burns said, is its enduring appeal.

In very brief — an exact précis of the tale's freaky turns would take paragraphs — Mr. Brugger decided that he wanted to expose the uglier, dirtier side of white diplomacy in Africa.

Tale of Tales is the exact opposite.

And isn't that the exact problem The Handmaid's Tale seeks to address?

Although the names of the movements derive from the original stories from The Thousand and One Nights, Rimsky-Korsakov always insisted that the music was not intended as an exact portrayal of any particular tale or any part of the collection.

Though the exact veracity of Salant's tale would be difficult to determine (he explains in an author's note that the work "derives primarily from my memory"), it at least has none of the macho posturing of James Frey's "Million Little Pieces".

Well, here is a tale of the exact opposite.

In fact, it's nearly an exact retread of the Southland Tales subplot, in which a Marxist organization tries to blackmail the government into shutting down a surveillance program with a stolen sex tape featuring a presidential candidate's son-in-law and a porn star.