'marvelous tale' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use this phrase to express admiration for a story or narrative. For example: "Ruth listened intently as her grandfather recounted a marvelous tale about his adventurous youth."
It's a marvelous tale, and a hard one to ruin.
Steeped in melancholy, the strange story of J. M. Barrie, the Victorian who wrote "Peter Pan," has the makings of a marvelous tale and one doozy of a case history.
But it's not so much the new landscape that distinguishes "Animal Triste" from its forerunners as it is the nature -- part myth, part memory -- of the marvelous tale Maron tells.
The strange and marvelous tale of Serge Carrefax's bizarre adventures at the turn of the 20th century will confound you, because it is a novel that has achieved a rare thing: It is experimental and yet readable.
But many present-day readers can recognize things in this marvelous tale.
This pilgrimage has remained famous as much for the pomp with which it was carried out as for the marvelous tales to which it gave rise.
But let's not turn him into something harmless, a kindly, childlike uncle spinning marvelous tales of rocket ships and dinosaurs.
The account contains some of the best elegiac verse in the language, and, by setting marvelous tales against a historical background in which victory is always temporary and strife is always renewed, the poet gives the whole an elegiac cast.
(Jaworowski) ★ 'The Old Man and the Old Moon' (closes on Sunday) The marvelous and folksy PigPen Theater Company tells this tall tale using live songs, puppets and shadow screens (2 10).
(Jason Zinoman) ★ 'The Old Man and the Old Moon' The marvelous and folksy PigPen Theater Company tells this tall tale using live songs, puppets and shadow screens (2 10).
Tired of having only imaginary companions, Jeremy seeks out real friends, in this marvelous and comic tale of the consolations and limits of our imaginations.
