Sentence examples for grave tale from inspiring English sources

In effect, he transformed the codes and tones of the breezy domestic comedy into a grave tale of sharp social perceptions — converted comedy into melodrama.

In effect, he transformed the codes and tones of the breezy domestic comedy into a grave tale of sharp social perceptions converted comedy into melodrama.

The grave tales told in "Grave Matters" vary.

Its ironic and grave tales examined the voluptuous poverty of an idealised rural Bengal.

Even so, interest in the king led to some far-fetched grave tales about the burial's whereabouts, including one purporting the bones were thrown into the Soar River.

In Romantic ballet, Albrecht ends up bereft at Giselle's grave in a tale of remorse and regeneration.

Those early years informed the liberalism and inventiveness in his four novels (A Still Small Voice, Snowball's Chance, The Whole, All the World's A Grave) and short story collection (Tales of Woe) -- as well as his expert rabble-rousing.

The birth, and survival, of the quints at the height of the Great Depression was both a global sensation and a tale of grave injustice.

Bemoaning his loss while visiting his sidekick's grave, Zhuangzi spins a tale of a virtuoso ax-thrower who sliced specks off the nose of his crony, but lost his "knack" when his co-performer passed away.

Utilizing Chippendale's trademark "snake style" layout – in which the action weaves back and forth across each page in zig-zag fashion – Puke Force is a cautionary tale of Grave City, a teeming neoliberal metropolis beset by the dislocating influences of online groupthink and lone-wolf terrorism.

His acquaintance Charles Dickens protested, "In an utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected".