Sentence examples for tale of addiction from inspiring English sources

McCafferty has said that he sees this more as a love story than a tale of addiction.

It sounds like a bleak tale of addiction but the happy-ish ending makes it bearable and even uplifting.

Among many others, Lithium for Medea is a tale of addiction and of LA as an anti-paradise: "The deformed sun dissolving above me and spitting sick orange blood on the pavement," writes Kate Braverman.

But in "Requiem," which is based on the 1978 Hubert Selby Jr. novel, Mr. Aronofsky employs technical razzle-dazzle not for escapist effect but as the dramatic underpinning of a visceral four-character tale of addiction.

Dhue--who also has beautiful posture--told her own tale of addiction.

The More They Disappear takes us to the front lines of the battle against small-town drug abuse in an unnerving tale of addiction, loss, and the battle to overcome the darkest parts of ourselves.

During batting practice before the two games in San Francisco, he signed autographs for people, some of whom shared their tales of addiction and recovery and thanked him for going public with his.

And they went on to intersperse old-fashioned country, like Roger Miller's brokenhearted honky-tonk shuffle, "Invitation to the Blues," with tales of addiction (Kris Kristofferson's "Chase the Feeling" and the more lighthearted "Black Caffeine," by Hank DeVito and this concert's sound man, Donivan Cowart) and their own songs, like the ambitious "Tragedy".

You can see it through his fiction: in Jack Torrance's alcoholic self-pity, desperately scared of becoming what he's destined to be, trying to hold his family together even as he shakes it apart; in Larry Underwood throwing his life (and money, and 15 minutes of fame) away on drink and drugs at the start of The Stand; in his short stories, tales of addiction and internal collapse and death.

Starring Emmanuelle Bercot - whose film Standing Tall opened this year's festival - and Vincent Cassel, who has already been seen in the Matteo Garrone fairytale Tale of Tales, it's a story of addiction.

Pacino's first leading role in a film came with The Panic in Needle Park (1971), a grim tale of heroin addiction that became something of a cult classic.