Sentence examples for saga told from inspiring English sources
His next novel, The Crow Road (1992), was a Scottish family saga, told through his usual narrative trickery.
When Saga told him Anja's life was in danger he came up with a description of No One.
HBO's late lamented saga told of a lawless gold-prospecting camp in 1870s South Dakota, and ran for 36 richly enjoyable, expletive-ridden episodes between 2004 and 2006.
We have, in Anne Tyler's A Spool of Blue Thread, a multi-generational family saga told with astonishing sensitivity and command.
A food saga told in about 30 items, the picada is a kind of gastronomic parade of small dishes, paid for in one overall price.
The judges discarded several very fine books in the cull from long- to shortlist: Anne Enright's The Green Road (Jonathan Cape) was a fierce, funny, loosely woven family saga told by dissipated envoys of the Irish diaspora; Andrew O'Hagan's The Illuminations (Faber) took on big subjects – war, old age – with a fine, sympathetic eye.
"They sailed a long time," the saga tells, "until they came to a river which flowed into a lake and from there into the sea.
The saga tells how, shortly after Leif discovered Vinland, an Icelander named Thorfinn Karlsefni led a large expedition back to America.
As part of a series in the New York Times Magazine, author Karl Ove Knausgaard continues his "saga", telling the story of a road trip from Cleveland to Detroit, complete with a visit to his cousin.
But the saga tells you much about the need for an institution, an estate, a profession, a trade – we'll probably never quite agree what to call it – that exists independently of the other main centres of power in society.
Though cosmic in scope, full of weird sex and peopled by humanoid spider assassins and robot royalty with TVs for heads, Saga tells the remarkably touching and often very funny family story of Alana and Marko – she's got wings and she's from the science planet; he's got horns and he's from the magic planet – and the child they attempt to raise together.
