Sentence examples for gritty tale from inspiring English sources

SINCE 2000, when a Mexican film director made "Amores Perros", a gritty tale about dogs, crime and violence, the status of canines in society has improved a lot.

Mia will continue as a character in the monthly Green Arrow comic book, but her story will not be a grim and gritty tale.

Another gritty tale of outback survival – Australian apocalypse hit Mad Max: Fury Road – picked up 10 nominations to take it into second place.

8 Mile (Curtis Hanson, 2002) 10pm, Sky Movies 2 This gritty tale of a young rap star trying to escape Detroit's urban desolation makes a perfect vehicle for Eminem.

If there was one movie that defined New York's independent film scene of the early 90's, it was "Laws of Gravity," a gritty tale of three Brooklyn pals that was made for the astonishingly low cost of $38,000.

Kindly summon a gardener's tolerance for earthy subject matter as this gritty tale unfolds: More than a decade ago — she thinks it was in 1998 — Jane Slupecki, a marketing representative for the Connecticut Department of Agriculture, took a group of Litchfield County dairy farmers to a brainstorming dinner at a lovely lakeside inn there.

Some are gritty tales that evoke Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles.

"Amores Perros" encompasses three gritty tales from the mean streets of Mexico City, one involving the illegal dogfighting culture.

Several songs were gritty tales of the drug pushers, junkies, drifters and prostitutes who haunted New York's mean streets during a meaner time for the city.

Rust and Bone, by Craig Davidson (Picador, £10.99) Stark oppositions often pack the punch in these gritty tales about American tough guys on the ropes.

Clearly, somewhere in the years before he released those gritty tales of urban decay as heard on 6 Feet Beneath the Moon, he learned the power of the po-faced.