Sentence examples for pair of stories from inspiring English sources

I had called Shahzad to discuss a pair of stories he'd written about bin Laden.

It's a fantastically powerful pair of stories, very sophisticated in its structure, if slightly crudely manipulated by its librettist".

We Never Make Mistakes, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn In this unconsoling pair of stories, the nightmare of Stalinism (asserted in the title) is treated obliquely.

This is one of a pair of stories set in apartheid-era South Africa – there's a Town Lovers, too, equally fine and terrible.

Invited to give the Tanner Lectures at Princeton a few years earlier, he had similarly read a pair of stories - about a fictional novelist, Elizabeth Costello, giving two lectures on animal rights.

Characters both Indian and Western see one another chiefly in terms of their own secret desires; only in a pair of stories about religious seekers does the veil lift.

During a two-month break in Ashes of Time's production, Wong shot Chunghing Samlam (1994; Chungking Express), which presents a pair of unrelated stories of unrequited love and missed romantic connections involving two policemen.

Reminiscent of D.W. Griffith's Intolerance (1916), Noah's Ark featured a pair of parallel stories, one recounting the famous biblical flood, the other a World War I-era romance.

It's also a pair of Maupassant stories ("Paul's Wife" and "The Signal") that gave rise to what strikes me as the most exemplary anecdote of literary adaptation that the movie business has ever yielded.

Critics came down hard on the movie, a back-and-forth pair of love stories about a contemporary woman who is preoccupied with the affair between Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII.

Channel Orange is bookended by a pair of love stories; the beautiful, tentative Thinkin' Bout You and the fond farewell of Forrest Gump, both of which are addressed to a man.