Sentence examples for tale of disaster from inspiring English sources

The classic tale of disaster in the American wilderness has all the makings of Shakespearean drama: ambition, greed, jealousy, revenge, murder, cannibalism and bad directions.

Rose, a young businesswoman, tells of her own grandmother getting a call from someone pretending to be Rose and spilling out a tale of disaster that had her grandmother frightened and sobbing.

Soon, however, tales of disaster started drifting in from out-of-town tryouts.

Yet the next day headlines were filled not with tales of disaster, but accounts of the life-changing performances.

James Shepherd-Barron's reputation preceded him -- 20 years of emergency response and over 32 countries under his belt, a former army helicopter pilot, and with more tales of disaster and adventure than Indiana Jones.

Those who had heard a sad tale of natural disaster in an African village tended to opt for the latter.

President Reagan read the tale of submarine disaster and derring-do and mentioned publicly that it was mesmerizing.

SOMEWHERE in the bowels of the Budget Division, under harsh light, a dozen graying men sat around a table for two hours staring at charts of the state's rising debt burden, a tale of looming disaster in deceptively cheerful colors.

In the words of the Sun across a page-and-a-half spread: "A tale of two disasters.

But there is an altogether darker novel hiding behind the tales of domestic disaster and the nostalgic snippets.

At Grand Central Tech, the non-American panelists shared their tales of business disaster and what they had learned from them.