Sentence examples for tale divided from inspiring English sources

It is instead a "24-hour tale", divided into a corresponding number of short sections, and it evokes in snatches and shifting perspectives the eerie build-up to a night-battle in January 1945 which earned its author a medal and cost friends their lives.

When Anna Sewell wrote "Black Beauty" in the late 19th century, she created a series of little morality tales, divided into chapters, in which the fates of Sewell's horses were almost entirely dictated by the quality of their human connections.

(Later, they signed a treaty with the British demanding that they return runaways to plantation slavery. Betrayal of other blacks was the price of their freedom. It is a familiar tale — divide and rule).

It's a sweeping and heartfelt tale of divided loyalties and reversion to type, in a world where the complacent ideas of globalised capitalism were shattered by 9/11.

Based on the 2007 novel by Mohsin Hamid, this is an ambitious, heartfelt tale of divided loyalties in a world where complacent belief in the triumph of globalised capital was shattered by the Twin Towers attack.

The industriously unearthed details of how West Coast soda jerks used to concoct a "Suicide" or of how truly precarious amusement-park rides used to be are fascinating in themselves but marginal to his tale of divided loyalties and dangerous affections.

And so begins a riveting tale: of divided factions on the Moscow metro, each pushing the other for territorial advantage; of biological warfare and the horror it leaves in its wake, the suffering of the near-dead a constant whenever Artyom passes through affected/infected areas; and of root human fears, of the unknown and the always pulse-raising peek around the next dark corner.

Five Women Who Loved Love is composed of five separate tales, each divided into five individually titled chapters.

Click here or on "View Gallery" to see the contenders in pictures The titillating tales have divided opinion, branded 'mummy porn' for the sadomasochistic sex scenes it includes.

Across the nine-mile-deep border strip that Israel maintained as a military buffer zone for 22 years, every village and town has its tales of divided families and estranged neighbors, of a household that made its accommodation to the occupation while the one next door persisted in stubborn resistance.

This media paradigm created the tale of a divided America – "red" v "blue"– in which the 42% of Kansans who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 are meaningless.