Sentence examples for intractable story from inspiring English sources

One day in 1976 - I'm no longer certain of the date - a young, unsuccessful writer wrestling with an enormous and still intractable story decided to start again, this time using a first-person narrator.

It's not just that Scandal has no moral compass – remember that our white-hatted heroine stole an election and has covered up countless heinous crimes – but to facilitate or make otherwise intractable story plausible, so many of the characters have flip-flopped over decisions that in any other show would have been character-defining.

How are journalists going to make sense of it all: Britain in Europe, the most intractable, counter-intuitive story of our time?

In Ohio, Mr. Obama made a classic effort to put a human face on an intractable problem, telling the story of Natoma Canfield, the cleaning woman.

"In a weird way, the Klan is a lot like a support group, just like Alcoholics Anonymous," Dave told me, suggesting in part that the story of intractable racism has at least something to do with the desire to belong.

Tragic stories and intractable conflicts dominate the news and the internet is awash with apocalyptic fears that have grown around the supposed predictions of an ancient Mayan calendar.

Slovenia is another victim of the pernicious link between weak banks and weak governments that makes the euro crisis so intractable.In another familiar story the country is also paying the price for a boom that veered out of control.

McCarey's final film, Satan Never Sleeps (1962), was another anticommunist story, about two intractable priests (William Holden and Clifton Webb) in China who refuse to give ground to the local communists.

When We Were Orphans Kazuo Ishiguro, 46 Faber & Faber, £16.99 Odds 7/2 Ishiguro's first novel for five years, following the complex and intractable The Unconsoled, is an unusual detective story set in 1930s England.

Too many stories associate black men with intractable problems.

And, as Christ eventually attests, the story is a tragedy – a truly intractable no-win situation.