Take the example of a romantic tale: 'The lovers lived happily ever after' would clearly be viewed as an optimistic story.
The collection's titular story, for example, tells a tale of impending war from the perspective of an Italian mule named Giu: "No living being in Italy remained untouched by the war," the story begins.
The theater has already staged a mystery about a foreign correspondent who returns home for a funeral, for example, and a tale of how two brothers deal with chilling discoveries about their father.
For the Guardian, for example, this is a tale of British complicity in an alleged act of wickedness by the Bush-era CIA.
I thought this was an excellent example of a thank-God-for-divorce tale.
At the end of a week in which the misconduct of Swiss bankers and their clients has been laid bare, the examples below reveal a tale of two cases exposing the double standards of a system that is far harsher on those who can't afford expensive advisers than on those who can.
For others, her death proved a cautionary tale, either as an example of a woman exceeding her station (as with Grenville Mellen, who said that it proved "a woman in a balloon is either out of her element or too high in it" ) or as the price of vanity for attempting such spectacular shows.
(A) The traditional demarcation of a TALE repeat.
Ms. Blythe cited "Lovely Night," a song Smith performed but never recorded, as an example of an operatic tune (from "The Tales of Hoffman") with "a horrendous English translation".
