Sentence examples for pat tale from inspiring English sources
Yet Smith can't hide the fact that she's spinning a rather pat tale about a self-absorbed man who, soon after his sperm count starts dwindling, realizes he wants to be "in the world".
Pat pat pat with the dishcloth.
And Hunter S. Thompson's "You're a Whole Different Person When You're Scared" is a pat, limp gonzo tale.
BOOTH AND PAT The classic showbiz tale generally has a star getting laryngitis and an understudy getting a big break.
The reader is left to figure out whose story is whose, as Fox and Foxe spar creatively, making new tales and striving to avoid pat endings.
Other tales in this volume feel overly pat or mechanically perfunctory, as if they'd been tossed off to complete an annoying assignment.
In sales it ranks with such classics as "Good Night Moon," though well below books like "Pat the Bunny," "The Cat in the Hat" or "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," according to lists compiled by Publisher's Weekly.
The tale of "Goldkind" becomes a little too fairy-tale pat.
To Read Aloud: A Sweet Tale Returns to Shelves The children's book author Dorothy Kunhardt is best known for "Pat the Bunny," a fuzzy tale.
Rather, the four loosely interrelated tales about London lives between Kilburn and Primrose Hill stubbornly, almost wilfully, refused to offer pat lessons about integration; like real life, which is messy, shonky, determinedly unglib and ever surprising.
