Sentence examples for striking tale from inspiring English sources

The historic numbers tell a striking tale of an epidemic that crested and then began to fall as the means of transmission became better understood and drug treatment was simplified from a handful of pills to a single capsule containing three medications.

It is a striking tale, well told, at the limits of our knowledge.

But the most striking tale of political recovery concerns the prime minister, Narendra Modi, who marked a year in office on May 26th.

This latter is a fascinating mirror image to Eye of the Beholder, in which the male character becomes the prey of a female stalker cum angel of death, yet again a striking tale of obsession unbound and a disturbing psychological chiller.

When she agreed to take part, Arnold was simply the maker of three shorts little seen outside the festival circuit, although Wasp - the striking tale of a single mother on a Kent estate attempting to woo back an ex - attracted serious acclaim.

Think of it as a striking tale of pay-to-play politics that will undoubtedly be revving up again in the coming weeks as the Saudi lobby works to block new Congressional efforts to end U.S. involvement in the disastrous war in Yemen.

At first sight it's the usual Tube strike tale: the media revel in the "transport chaos", the Telegraph lists who get paid less than London Underground drivers and Boris Johnson gets belligerent.

In an evening of gripping theater directed by Will Frears and featuring a superb cast, it is striking that this Kafkaesque tale manages to eke out a happy ending.

A striking aspect of the tale is the extraordinarily savage nature of Japan's political process during that time; the number of assassinations, and the bitterly factional nature of every institution from the court to the army are all powerfully depicted.

He was struck by the tale's affinities with the absurdist strain in art and literature, which, in the last century, had moved from the periphery into the mainstream.

He was particularly struck by the tale of the former football star and professional golfer John Brodie who had a stroke, received stem cell therapy in Russia and returned to playing golf again.