She'd gone from being the perpetual "tale-end Charlie" to knowing people enjoyed following her down the slopes because she skied so well.
Despite the perpetual tales of woe that dominate, two powerful forces are driving Africa forward in ways that few are willing to articulate.
Once that misunderstanding is ironed out, they become both a perpetual annoyance tripping from one tale to the next, often worsening the scrapes in which Tintin finds himself and a ridiculous double talisman.
Kate Atkinson has topped an all-woman shortlist to win the Costa novel award for Life After Life, a tale of perpetual resurrection.
Malevolent weather is a perpetual villain in Christmas tales; the 1964 animated version of "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" opened with images of cars plowed in, people stumbling through snowdrifts, and a San Francisco Chronicle with the headline "FOUL WEATHER MAY POSTPONE CHRISTMAS".
Once that misunderstanding is ironed out, they become both a perpetual annoyance — tripping from one tale to the next, often worsening the scrapes in which Tintin finds himself — and a ridiculous double talisman.
In a perpetual state of fear?
In recent weeks, Mr. Tumminello said, many relayed tales of homes under seemingly perpetual siege.
Through the simple fact of having a sense of humour, Matteo Garrone's wonderful Tale of Tales is closer to the second model, but where a Pixar film is fiercely focused on its younger audience with continuous flicks of discreet sophistication for older consumers, Tale of Tales is for adults, with a perpetual undercurrent of childlike reverence for the bizarre events unfolding on screen.
It's a tale of routine 70-hour weeks, arbitrary targets, perpetual shifts in government policy and a pervading culture of crushing bureaucracy.
Re "Mile by Mile, India Paves a Smoother Road to Its Future" ("India Accelerating" series, front page, Dec. 4): Your article about the Golden Quadrilateral is a fascinating tale of two Indias emerging hand in hand with perpetual conflict.
