Sentence examples for oral story from inspiring English sources

A strong oral story still reverberates from them.

Description: An oral story in the Makah language entitled 'Autobiographical Sketch' as told by Ralph LaChester and translated by Mabel Robertson.

Paulette Jiles defends the tradition of oral story telling aginst what she calls the 150 year "literary fashion" of realism, and explains the aesthetic principles behind her chosen role as tale-teller and modern fabulist.

Indeed, it is Mai Elliott's abiding talent for seeing things objectively -- combined with her writerly skills, her deep knowledge of her nation's history, and her immersion in her family's ongoing oral story of itself -- that gives us, in effect, detailed eyewitness accounts of extraordinary things that lie beyond and behind the last war.

In The Penguin Book of English Folk Tales, we learn that mid-20th-century folklorists had collected an oral story and never noticed it was actually a retelling and simplification of a strange and disturbing children's story written by the Victorian writer Lucy Clifford.

In 2005 it was named by Unesco as a masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity, reminding us of its historical importance as an oral story told in performance as well as a written text, and ensuring that its presence is sustained.

Setalcott history was previously disseminated by tribal members' oral story-telling.

While all cultures start with oral story-telling - Homer was spoken before ever written - Judaism has in-built structures to reinforce the tradition.

It should be a hybrid of postmodernist heteroglossia (multiple and high-low discursive registers, mixed genres, stories within stories) and pre-modernist narrative (conventional morality, the simulation of an oral story-telling tradition).

Khmer ballet choreographer Sophiline Cheam Shapiro will talk about Cambodia's 10th-century oral stories, based on the epic poem the Ramayana.

Standard genealogical sleuthing – combing through historical documents, reading books, talking to older relatives, and remembering oral stories passed down – may give a person more information about their ancestry than a DNA test, says Brodwin.