Sentence examples for stories of a certain from inspiring English sources

Even back then, before the growth of the Internet, tabloid stories of a certain magnitude were capable of taking on a life of their own.

Cover blurbs in 1958 promised only "stories of a certain group of Americans in Southeast Asia — their failures and heroism, their humors and passions, their drama in a land of turmoil... an entertainment of major topical importance".

You could claim that there are short stories of a certain sort in the King James Bible and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; that short Elizabethan prose romances are at the root of the form.

From her role as an unruly prison inmate on "Orange Is The New Black" to her more recent portrayal of a kidnapped single mother in "Cleveland Abduction," actress Taryn Manning has made a name for herself by taking on the stories of a certain type of character.

Its website splashes with the story of a certain "Reading-born" actor's triumph under the headline "Kate Wins It".

However, in his On the Soul that is only fragmentarily preserved, Plutarch speaks of the separation of soul from body and recounts the story of a certain Antyllos who had died and then his soul had been released again (fr. 176 Sandbach).

The Polish Jewish writer Bruno Schulz described Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (1937), the second of his two surviving collections of stories, as "eliciting the history of a certain family, a certain house in a provincial city – not from documents, events, a study of character or people's destinies – but by a search for the mythical sense, the essential core of that history..

He added that old-line news media felt pressure to pick up Deadspin stories "because of a certain crisis of confidence the news media is going through; they feel they're losing some control of what's relevant because of sites that don't adhere to the same standards".

Short, emotionally charged narratives — story fragments, of a certain kind — can travel through a population faster than any virus and alter behavior on a dime, they say.

"I've been talking about this for 10 years now but with the true rise of art cinema yet again, it's really made a dramatic shift in our stories about women of a certain age," she says.

I keep on hearing sob stories from GPs of a certain age about the bad old days when they had to do a full day's work, then be on call all night, followed by another full day's work.