Sentence examples for tale is true from inspiring English sources

In a movie called "True Story" — its tale is true, to a degree — he is playing a disgraced reporter, the real-life Michael Finkel.

How much of this tale is true?

So the old wive's tale is true: a healthy body does equal a healthy mind and it can make you better at your job.

So without any hesitation at all I said, 'I want to stay here with Father.' "And he said, 'I am not your father.' " Whether the tale is true is beside the point.

But this week, after examining ashes from her oven, forensic scientists at Romania's National History Museum appeared on the verge of confirming the art world's worst fears: her tale is true.

That part of the tale is true; the Winchester house exists to this day as a tourist attraction (and the year in which the movie is set invokes another true story that's involved: the San Francisco earthquake).

Asked if this tale was true during his own appearance at the Leveson Inquiry, Mr MacKenzie enthusiastically re-enacted it.Mr Mackenzie's cheerful thuggery is unusual, even in Fleet Street.

The teenager, if his tale were true, would be accomplishing something few adults could: he seemed to be a one-man hedge fund at the least and possibly a child prodigy, the Mozart of trading.

His agent even cited the appearance on Oprah is somehow being evidence that the tale was true.

When I caught up with Stoffer during his last week on the Hill, he was in the process of regaling half a dozen friends and well-wishers the story of how he once "stole a Greyhound bus" and somehow "never got arrested" (I never did find out whether this tale was true or not. Knowing him, it probably was).

But throughout Winfrey's interview, Armstrong failed to do the one thing many people had been waiting for: he failed to apologize directly to all the people who believed in him, all the cancer survivors and cycling fans who thought his fairy-tale story was true.