Sentence examples for tale of disgrace from inspiring English sources

The Outcast, by Sadie Jones (Vintage, £7.99) If McEwan lies behind this finely managed tale of disgrace and redemption, then surely so does Dostoyevsky – the author's literary inspiration.

But the hourlong show, directed by Elizabeth Lucas at the new Manhattan Movement and Arts Center, reveals nothing about Mrs. Helmsley that anyone vaguely familiar with the tale of that disgraced hotel queen wouldn't already know.

Living in a state of disgrace.

We cannot move from our current state of disgrace to one of grace immediately.

Du Chaillu's personal history, the unifying element amid all this, unfolds into a tale of "tainted" origins, shame, youthful pluck, success followed by disgrace followed by reclaimed success, incompetence (his second Gabonese expedition was a catalog of pratfalls and bad judgment) and continual self-­invention, culminating in his late career as an author of books on Norse mythology.

The giddiness and pleasure of disgrace".

The half-life of disgrace seems to be getting shorter.

A caricature of disgrace.

A stigma is a mark of disgrace.

It's a boiling cauldron of disgrace.

Its central joke was Eisenstein's arrival at Orlofsky's party, needing desperately to pee - but unable to escape to the toilet, and ultimately disgracing himself while enjoying too much the tale of Falke's nickname.