Sentence examples for tale of descent from inspiring English sources

Agnon himself had just made this very exchange, but in his art he is drawn to a tale of descent, of a mismatch between the Jewish spirit and the Jewish homeland.

Their tales of descent from lost tribes seem, to the sceptical, highly dubious, bordering on the fabulous, and have no basis in the historical record.

The building frenzy that lured Ms. Bermudez to Fort Myers and neighboring Cape Coral has left a wasteland of foreclosed homes and written new tales of descent into star-crossed indigence.

The book is a heavy tale of continuous descent with the ever-present rolling rumble of the futility of action in the light of insufficient knowledge, poor judgement and evitability.

Religious writings, brief annals of the early kings, moral tales, and books of descent formed the earliest Portuguese prose texts.

Heath's story is also a tale of slow, unchecked descent into a private darkness that was ultimately unleashed on the world in a piece of grim theatre.

This 19th-century morality tale of Gervaise Macquart's descent into alcoholism and death should resonate with Galliano, who has lived in France for many years.

Death-oriented themes appear in the tale of Ishtar's descent, in the story of Nergal and Ereshkigal, and in various netherworld texts associated with the Tammuz myth and liturgy.

"Breaking Bad," the tale of Walter White's descent into power, is a near perfect example of this new form.

On the surface, Mr. Bell has written a gripping, grisly tale of a husband's descent into and ultimate emergence from some kind of personal hell.

Joanna Kavenna has won the 2008 Orange award for new writers with a tale of a disaffected journalist's descent into nervous breakdown, Inglorious.