Sentence examples for plot of the tales from inspiring English sources

In its most finished version (for there were several of them), the plot of the tales centred around Rabbi Simeon ben Yoḥai, a sage of the 2nd century, about whom the Talmud already related some curious anecdotes, most of them semilegendary.

Sometimes it takes decades to get to that last act: police in New York are trying to figure out the plot of "the tale of the postwar six-shot revolver," as the Times calls it.

In other words, speech is as much the plot of this tale as its vehicle.

It's not quite Grand Theft Auto V, but it is the plot of "The Winter's Tale," which redeems time by recovering the lost daughter, Perdita.

The plot of The Handmaid's Tale is set in 2005, after the spread of false information ― a staged terrorist attack ― leads to the speedy renunciation of the Constitution, and revocation of women's rights.

What makes the Rootabaga stories more than Edward Learian jingles and Rimbaudian indeterminacy for kids is how Sandburg brings the looseness of nonsense thinking to all aspects of the tales: plots fail to develop, characters' actions have no meaning, conflicts have no resolutions.

The research analysed 58 variants of the tales and looked at 72 plot variables.

Where Amos and co padded out the plot of MacDonald's tale, this version sticks to the basics.

She realized however that children most enjoyed her rabbit stories and pictures, and so reached back to characters and plot elements from The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) and The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (1904) to create The Flopsy Bunnies.

This is just the first chapter, so it's hard yet to grasp the plot of this strange tale. .

The production was staged in a warehouse on Governors Island, requiring patrons to make their way to the tip of Manhattan, hop a ferry, then walk 20 minutes in the swampy heat for the privilege of delving into the knotty plot of Dostoyevsky's tale of radicals in pre-revolutionary Russia.