Sentence examples for present a tale from inspiring English sources

The same actors playing their ancestor-counterparts also dramatise a tale that brings the past into parallel with the present, a tale of thwarted romance, tribal fear, and sexual politics: a tale with something of the Iliad in the way the belligerent males talk themselves into doing battle with enemies over the assumed abduction of one of the womenfolk.

In this case, the bar is especially high, because Ward presents a tale that has been told not just often but quite well, first by Johnson and then in the Oscar-winning movie.

Presenting a tale of two football icons.

A data sheet that presents a man as the younger son of the Duke of Norfolk and transports him to Maine where he became Longfellow's village blacksmith does present a wondrous tale, but it's not a credible one.

The studies present a cautionary tale, researchers say, that makes clear the pitfalls of a common medical practice — using new drugs in situations in which they have never been rigorously tested.

Hollywood dreams of consensus, of happy endings and box office unity, but democratic government can present an interminable tale of gridlock, compromise and division.

Starting July 24 and running through Aug. 25, the festival will present "A Winter's Tale" for five weeks at Roosevelt Park and at Agawam Park in Southampton.

Presented by the Battery Dance Company, the five-day free festival opens on Sunday for its 19th year with performances by the Vanaver Caravan of American folk dancers and the Incidents Physical Theater, which will present a medieval fairy-tale fantasy by Christina Briggs, Edward Winslow and their gymnastic dancers.

Instead he presents a conventional tale of sexual and professional jealousy with oddly dull characters.

But her last year presents a cautionary tale for all of us who still can't believe the party ever ends.

Perhaps the most atypical of the author's works, the play presents a sentimental tale of youthful indiscretion in a turn-of-the-century New England town.