Sentence examples for tale of class from inspiring English sources

A homage to early Elvis Presley and rock 'n' roll flicks, this tale of class warfare in Baltimore had only a cobweb of a plot.

Presented in a style that both adheres to and tweaks theatrical tradition, this winding tale of class, crime, honor and shame is definitely not just for culture vultures.

A tale of class warfare and economic and social injustice in a small English village, it became an instant best seller and was reviewed everywhere, but the notices were hardly universally ecstatic.

There's a subversive degree of social subtext to this densely imagined tale of class warfare between humans and the eponymous tribe of junk-hoarding subterranean beasts, and not in a worthy or sanctimonious sense.

"Luisa Miller" is the story of the doomed love between a miller's daughter and the son of the local count; Victorian England is an appropriate setting for a tale of class division.

It's a blue-collar drama-thriller of cops and robbers, fathers and sons; a tale of class, fate, biology and destiny, superficially in the manner of Dennis Lehane, and concluding with an explosive coincidence measuring 978 on the Thomas Hardy Richter Scale.

This Keen Company revival, directed by Jonathan Silverstein, gives those admirers what they came for, a tale of class-consciousness, money, loyalty and resistance to change, all under the watchful eyes of dead white men in suits whose framed portraits hang high on dark-paneled walls.

It didn't stay long in theaters — Ms. Granik agrees that the American temperament, with its emphasis on progress and upward mobility, doesn't easily tolerate bleak tales of class suffering — nor did its critical success ease Ms. Granik's path to her second feature film, after a break to have a child.

The one book predicted by almost everyone is Alan Hollinghurst's sweeping tale of poetry, class and ambiguous sexual identities, The Stranger's Child.

In translating Strindberg's 1888 tale of love, class and madness into contemporary South Africa, Ms. Farber has created a parched and blistered world in which every living soul is highly combustible tinder, and the rules for living keep melting.

All or Nothing, Mike Leigh's tale of working class life on a south London estate, was voted British film of the year and also picked up the best British actress award for Lesley Manville.