Sentence examples for idle tale from inspiring English sources
The narrator observes: "Whether he did indeed pass there by that poor ghost's incantation, or whether he was stricken suddenly by apoplexy in the midst of an idle tale – as the coroner's jury would have us believe – is no matter for my judging".
In fact, when the women who witness the empty tomb return to tell the disciples what they have seen, the disciples, who should know better, think it's an "idle tale" (Luke 24:11, NRSV).
The disciples do not call the women's story an "idle tale" - they think their story is "garbage" (the literal Greek word, used only here in the Bible), in other words, a load of crap.
I'm listening to Athletico Mince, a podcast co-created and co-hosted by Bob Mortimer and Andy Dawson, which from episode one (it's now on episode 38) derailed immediately from its intended topic of football, and has since become a bizarre and engrossing world of idle chat, improvised tales and sketches that often prolapse mid-joke.
Here is the ultimate get-rich-quick tale of an idle boy (a cute, raffish thief in Disney's modified version) who has the good luck to be designated the only person able to retrieve a magic, Genie-filled lamp from a subterranean cave.
Because the sweet-looking old ladies in headscarves who queued in the hallway came not for idle chat, but to tell tales of depravity: a son shot dead at home by masked men in uniform, a nephew detained and tortured, a family made homeless after security forces burnt their house to the ground.
"The World Over," the first offering of the new season at Playwrights Horizons, follows the Odyssean wanderings of a man named Adam Justin Kirkk), who has made the mistake of believing a tale told in an idle moment by a balladeer.
It was instead a tale about teenagers from broken families, lives complicated by drugs and poverty, who seemed idle, alienated and drawn to a small-town version of urban gang culture.
