Sentence examples for exemplary tale from inspiring English sources
The official account of the discovery told many times has the ring of an exemplary tale.
It is hardly an exemplary tale, but it is an unforgettable description of how such a sordid event can occur.
Worster frames his narrative in a surprising way, as an exemplary tale about the rise of liberal democracy.
The press and the politicians seized on the Jogger story, Didion thought, because they saw a way to make it into an exemplary tale.
US Airways handles a mistake with grace: Self-congratulations all around An exemplary tale of how to deal with a social-media cock-up6.
But her rise is tinged with cloak-and-dagger tension, starting with the opening sequence of a bomb attack in Paris, and the resulting thriller is also an exemplary tale of leveraging celebrity into politics.
One striking thing about the exemplary tales in "Self-Help" is the all-consuming nature of the careers they document.
The frame story that links Count Lucanor's tales anticipates novelistic structure: the young count repeatedly seeks advice from his tutor Patronio, who responds with exemplary tales.
"Self-Help" is a commodious compendium of exemplary tales, the stories of (almost exclusively) men who have made it in nearly every imaginable arena of human endeavor.
The new book, like its predecessor, has a format that's familiar in contemporary nonfiction: exemplary tales interpolated with a little social and cognitive science.
In a polemical, essaylike introduction, Antonioni presented them as exemplary tales of the social ills of the postwar generation — and he derived his philosophical aesthetic from a documentary attention to postwar urban landscapes.
