Sentence examples for tale attempts from inspiring English sources

"The Death of Jack Hamilton," a gangster tale, attempts to fill out a few unaccounted-for days in the real-life story of John Dillinger.

In "A Cautionary Tale," Stuart attempts to "whine and orate" his way into his roommate's bed: "Don't you see the beauty of it, Patty?

No surviving tales mention attempts to kill the demons, but a Gregorson Campbell story tells of the capture of a blue man.

I felt like the kid in the fairy tale who, attempting to escape the treacherous forest, takes refuge by accident with the resident witch.

Ostensibly a morality tale, it attempted to portray glamorous vice as wicked but merely diminished the vice and upgraded the glamour.

In the days leading up to his arrival, outgoing ministry spokesman Abbas Iraqchi regularly dismissed the suggestion that the Omani ruler was carrying a message for Tehran as "spinning tales... attempts by the foreign media to foul the positive climate that has appeared from the change of government.

The lead roles in this thundering 1898 tale of attempted hanky-panky during the Crusades, set to glorious music by Glazunov, will be performed tonight by Irina Dvorovenko as the chaste and faithful Raymonda, Maxim Belotserkovsky as her lover, the Crusader Jean de Brienne, and Marcelo Gomes as a wicked Saracen knight who tries to seduce Raymonda while Jean is away.

Can you get them to fix my coffee maker?' " Philanthropy is littered with tales of attempted favor-banking gone wrong.

This is the theme of many of these tales: the attempt to preserve a self when self-sacrifice -- on someone's part -- is an absolute requirement of the social order.

It is as strange a tale of the attempted social planning of spirituality the world has ever known.

– Suzanne Spector The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin Wired News | A good tale of the attempt to create a digital currency and what went wrong.