Sentence examples for isolated tales from inspiring English sources

There are optimistic elements peppering the dismal downward-sloping graphs, but for once in too long a while the conservation community have summoned the courage to concisely tell it like it is, not hide behind the isolated tales of success that typically crowd the covers of their membership quarterlies and sow cosy contentment.

Polaroid's is not an isolated tale.

Now they bargain over half a riyal [about 15 US cents]. Cabbies are great complainers the world over, yet Mr Kareem's declining fortune is not an isolated tale.

It uses a classic structure to form the narrative – in a remote, isolated setting a tale is told to an audience of one, who in turn recounts the tale to us – and with each revelation the sense of trepidation increases.

The short story "Shut a Final Door" (O. Henry Award, 1946) and other tales of loveless and isolated individuals were collected in A Tree of Night (1949).

PARIS -- For almost a month now a flotilla of five French frigates has scoured the rugged ocean floor of the mid-Atlantic, using state-of-the-art listening equipment and computers to try to isolate the tell-tale tapping of the two beacons attached to the "black box" data recorder of Air France Flight 447.

PARIS — For almost a month now, five French frigates have scoured the rugged ocean floor of the mid-Atlantic, using state-of-the-art listening equipment and computers to try to isolate the tell-tale tones of the two beacons attached to the "black box" voice and data recorders of Air France Flight 447.

Another virtue of Tatar's edition is that she has isolated, at the end, a group of "Tales for Adults" — stories that she feels should be examined by parents before they are read to children.

The new film, as I see it, is a progression of that bleak vision - the tale of a man so isolated within a void of his own making that even bloody madness seems an escape.

A quick perusal of nightclub review site Clubcrawlers reveals corroborating stories that prove Woodrow's tale is far from an isolated case in Toronto.

Then David Wells, a one-man sideshow of belching, bragging and backtracking, further isolated himself in the clubhouse with the tawdry tales in his autobiography.