Sentence examples for singular tale from inspiring English sources

"The Odyssey" is a singular tale of longing for homeland, but it comes with a mystery: Where exactly is Odysseus's beloved land of Ithaca?

Matias Reyes's horror stories, as recounted to doctors and detectives, are hardly a singular tale of desperation in a city as varied as New York.

When it works, they convey some of the spirited vitality, not to mention oddity, of Harry Smith's anthology of music from that era: Submarines, set to clomping piano, is a singular tale of a man whose sea visions go disbelieved, while Flowers in Your Hair addresses growing pains with pleasing acerbity.

Tom Brook talks to the cast and crew behind The Book Thief and examines the power and appeal of this singular tale.

And so, his singular story.

The result is a "singular and sometimes haunting" tale, Jennifer Marie Reese wrote here last year.

Mysteries, strange alliances and drama abound in this singular coming-of-age tale.

"Mysteries, strange alliances and drama abound in this singular coming-of-age tale," Gardner McFall said here in 2000.

The intellectually messy "Singular Forms" tells a richer tale.

His later works — among them "Private Lives," "Blithe Spirit" and "Design for Living" — are far better known and far more finely honed, but it is a singular treat to see this tale of two naughty wives, which is rarely revived.

Often the authors have come to their Christmas tales through a singular route.