Sentence examples for land stories from inspiring English sources

SWEET LAND STORIES, by E. L. Doctorow.

Yet a fatal ambivalence lurks at the heart of "Sweet Land Stories," and has marred his work from the beginning.

Stories of exodus from oppression and conquest of land, stories of exile and return and stories of triumphal vision are eerily contemporary.

In his novels, Doctorow usually relies on historical situations and personalities; in "Sweet Land Stories," he embellishes and improvises on stock situations and personality types.

Additionally, Doctorow wrote the play Drinks Before Dinner (first performed 1978) and published the short-story collections Lives of the Poets (1984), Sweet Land Stories (2004), and All the Time in the World (2011).

What's interesting to me is how Zoe seems to want to have it both ways, playing the sexism card when it suits her, while simultaneously using her sex appeal to land stories.

Unless, of course, the real worry is not with Scott's interpretation, but with the Exodus/Promised land story itself.

Time-Life offer astronauts $400,000 for book rights to lunar landing story 10 01 a.m.

Like any tale worth its fairy dust, "The Land of Stories" is infused with a moral: "There's a whole world out there just waiting for you to discover it," Colfer said.

I merely wanted to tell a story, the story of my people, my land, the story of its humiliation.

"The Land of Stories" may appeal to a somewhat narrow demographic.