Sentence examples for forgotten tale from inspiring English sources
The anonymously authored and utterly forgotten tale "The Odd Trump," from 1875, is a ripe bit of Victorian preposterousness.
In the process, Ms. Clinton, the first female presidential nominee of a major party, elevated a largely forgotten tale of Mr. Trump, when his oversight of beauty pageants collided with his unforgiving fixation with female beauty.
(How would white supremacists, for instance, explain the ability of Pokey Barnes, a 23-year-old illiterate black farm girl, to undertake a shrewd cross-examination that proved her main accuser a perjurer?) Ms. Lebsock has done a service in resuscitating this forgotten tale.
Some of the writing is lyrical and reads like a forgotten fairy tale: "Until, one day, there was no tock.
It's like a good forgotten fairy tale.
The box was believed by some to have supernatural power, with Karl Gottlieb von Windisch, writing in his 1784 book Inanimate Reason, that "[o]ne old lady, in particular, who had not forgotten the tales she had been told in her youth … went and hid herself in a window seat, as distant as she could from the evil spirit, which she firmly believed possessed the machine".
His precocious rise and then gradual effacement is the fascinating story of Isaiah Wilner's "The Man Time Forgot: A Tale of Genius, Betrayal, and the Creation of Time Magazine".
When Anne Enright came to the Guardian book club to talk about The Forgotten Waltz, her tale of ordinary adultery in modern Ireland, she was asked a good deal about her depiction of Dublin's smart, affluent professionals.
Monson, a musicologist and self-proclaimed "archive mouse," happily scurries into this forgotten repository, retrieving tales of sororal transgressions, which range from affairs to arson.
And let this be a cautionary tale not forgotten.
The Forgotten Waltz, a lively tale of Dublin adultery and mortgages, failed to make the cut, as did Last Man in Tower by the 2008 winner Aravind Adiga.
