Sentence examples for peculiar tale from inspiring English sources

Instead, the Ewalts arrived to tell their peculiar tale.

Step right up for "a most peculiar tale of mystery and horror, and of unrelenting woe".

Studies have shown that when a flavor is marketed to consumers as a specific botanical type — evocative of a place or a culture, or complete with some peculiar tale of discovery — people are more likely to enjoy it.

It's a peculiar tale, drawing heavily upon a range of somewhat obvious sources (Picnic At Hanging Rock, Lord of the Flies, Heavenly Creatures etc) but still finding its own oddly off-kilter voice.

By various opposing accounts, the peculiar tale may shape up as a battle for control over the actor between a Mafia extortion crew, which threatened his life, and Buddhist advisers who voiced concern for his afterlife.

In this captivating double portrait, Cumming exhumes the little that is known of the Spanish artist and courtier through the peculiar tale of one of his most passionate devotees.

I'm mildly obsessed by Comyns, most of whose deeply peculiar tales remain, thanks to Virago, in print.

But where do these strange creatures come from, and what peculiar tales of mesmerism, freemasonry, pig sacrifice and revolution would they tell if they could talk?

There is nothing new about such peculiar tales - in 1995 a stolen painting was delivered to our offices in Christmas wrapping paper, while five years ago 2003 works by Picasso, Van Gogh and Gauguin were recovered from a disused public toilet.

She has spent the last six years gallivanting across the globe, collecting peculiar tales.

This subterranean space with concrete walls and potential passageways has more enigmatic and peculiar tales to tell, however.