Sentence examples for tale down from inspiring English sources
By the time the "History Detectives" folks run the tale down, they are not at Gettysburg or Antietam or one of the other marquee battles, but at Poison Springs, Ark., where in April 1864 a Union foraging expedition ran into Confederate forces.
Bill T Jones Sadler's Wells, London EC1 Mayerling Royal Opera House, London WC2 The Soldier's Tale Linbury Studio, London WC2 Redemption is promised in the Bill T Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company's 20th anniversary tour, while the Royal Opera House offers visions of hell and damnation: Faust and Mayerling on the main stage, The Soldier's Tale down below in the Linbury.
I cherish this story, in the face of all the evidence of mitochondrial DNA, partly through weak-headed romanticism, and partly through loyalty to my ancestors, who had clearly nursed the tale down the centuries.
Using the 1967 cartoon as its template more than Kipling's source tale (down to awkwardly incorporated updates of those infectious songs), the film goes all out to trump its predecessor for spectacle.
Some of our best popular songwriters -- Bruce Springsteen, John Prine, Iris DeMent and Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys all come to mind -- winnow their tales down to the essentials without skimping on emotion.
They started writing the tales down after the conference, but when Dan Milne, a director friend, invited them to develop the project at the Young Vic in London, the first thing he did was throw the script out.
Friendster, in a storied tale, turned down an offer from Google of $30 million in pre-I.P.O.
It has the feel of an Elmore Leonard tale relocated down under, or a very distant Antipodean cousin of Minder.
The creative team sees the opera as a mythical tale, passed down and pondered through the ages, about the cycles of life and death.
The most screenplay-ready tale, hands down, is that of Ree Drummond, a former L.A. party girl who met a cowboy in an Oklahoma bar on a visit home and became a ranch wife a year and a half later.
The sugarplums dancing in the children's heads were Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell, and when the narrator of the tale settled down for his nap, he did so with a tall iced nightcap and six bottles of hooch scattered around his bed, alongside a sexy mama kerchiefed like a belly dancer.
