Sentence examples for from retelling from inspiring English sources
Like Kafka's Hunger Artist, who buys the spectators breakfast and watches them eat, Didion takes strength from retelling the story of her own deprivation.
You can see why those who tweet standups' jokes might see this as not so different from retelling them to their mates in the pub.
Think of how much we get from retelling of myths and archetypes: Milton and the New Testament; Tennyson and Malory; Christopher Logue (or Joyce, for that matter) and Homer.
In fact, in order to prevent the East Coast 10 p.m. audience from retelling Hope's "nifties" to West Coast friends in the three-hour time lag between performances, Hope often instructed his writers to do a second monologue for his California audience.
Inside, there were shell-shocked looks, wails and guttural, high-pitched cries from women retelling their unmanaged trauma to the room, men demanding justice and mothers holding their hands over their children's ears as people recounted the horror that had taken place four days previously.
Still, the creation of Israel remains a remarkable, odds-defying story that bears retelling from different angles.
This new version of the classic tale of Don Juan is part of Save the Story series, a scheme to 'save great stories from oblivion by retelling them for a new, younger generation'.
On Psycho and Let It Bang, Ferg flips seamlessly from wry detachment – retelling his relative's excesses as gags – to something darker and more impassioned: the combination of amusement, affection and horror-struck frustration feels realistic and affecting.
And older kids – strong-stomached enough for woodcuts of blinded unfortunates proffering their own trickling eyeballs – may relish Welsh storyteller Daniel Morden's aptly named Dark Tales from the Woods, retelling the grim and uncompromising tales of Abram Wood, the King of the Gypsies.
Margaret Owen London The five freed from Guantánamo will be retelling their experience of beatings, waterboarding and noise torture.
Some use the Jane Eyre story, retelling it from a different angle, while others explore the nature of marriage and relationships in the wider world, from Texas to Zambia.
