Sentence examples for pretty tale from inspiring English sources
They've heard talk that her bedsheets could "tell a pretty tale".
The philosopher Hubert Dreyfus and his former student Sean Dorrance Kelly have a story to tell, and it is not a pretty tale for us moderns.
Thousands of employees lost their jobs and their pensions (largely invested in worthless Enron stock) while the designers and polishers of its wings of wax walked away with tens of millions of dollars each.Not a pretty tale.
It is not a pretty tale that they tell in The Victim's Fortune, Inside the Epic Battle Over The Debts of the Holocaust (John Authers and Richard Wolffe, HarperCollins, $29.95).
Reginald Allen says that "it seems certain" from its "rhythmic structure" that part of the Act I finale of Thespis, "Here's a pretty tale for future Iliads and Odysseys" became the original Act II finale in Pirates, "At length we are provided with unusual felicity", which was later deleted.
The first part was printed as a children's rhyme in a variation of the more famous "Ride a Cock Horse" in Pretty Tales, published in 1808, with the lyrics: Ride a Cock Horse, To Charing Cross, To see a black man, Upon a black horse.
A pretty story; and, like all folk tales, this one tells a kind of truth.
Issues aside, it's also a pretty tense tale.
No matter what happens onstage, it's a pretty good tale.
Top-rated research departments The 2001 RAE results tell a pretty impressive tale.
Religion aside, there's a pretty traditional tale in Mr. Hameeduddin's rise from the son of immigrants from Hyderabad, India.
