Sentence examples for moralistic tale from inspiring English sources

As for "The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis," it reads like an adaptation of a moralistic tale filched from a horror movie channel: a gang of bullies, who have tormented an odd boy named Eric, come across a scarecrow that resembles their victim, and one of them becomes so haunted by the doll that he begins to feel the need to repent.

For ages, this outbreak has served as a curiosity and a cautionary, even moralistic, tale.

The artist's sacred trinity of life, struggle, and death is not a moralistic tale; it is a representation of the Chicano experience.

Cycle plays were presented on moveable stages, traveling about and offering moralistic tales from the Bible.

While these moralistic tales are arrestingly composed, they nevertheless -- for this viewer at least --remain staged moments, in which the participants look like well-cued actors.

Why did she also write such moralistic tales as Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl?

Many forget that the beloved purveyor of moralistic tales for young girls, Louisa May Alcott, had quite a radical streak.

The disjointed nature of the work has given him a reputation as a senile rambler, although it is actually written with an anthological structure, with humorous or moralistic tales that are not meant to proceed chronologically, as a true autobiography would.

I don't think Mr. James intended to make a creepy, exploitative movie about teenage runaways — or, for that matter, a moralistic, cautionary tale of girls gone bad.

So he did the food book, a series of highly coloured, moralistic folk tales held together by the common theme of human ingestion.

His star began to fade in the early 1920s when audiences grew tired of his moralistic Western tales.