Sentence examples for tale of escape from inspiring English sources

Each stage segues seamlessly into the next, creating a lengthy and charming tale of escape, with enough hidden treasures toensure replay appeal.

Finally, there's my book of the year by some distance, Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad (Little Brown £14.99), a tale of escape from slavery in the American deep south.

Basically what we have here is a tale of escape and growth that begins in darkness and — after taking a few tips from the Bible, Hieronymus Bosch and M. C. Escher — ends in a stunning vortex of brilliant color.

Emerging from 17 days in the jungle after fleeing from guerrillas, Jhon Frank Pinchao, a police officer, stunned Colombians with his tale of escape after more than eight years in captivity.

At a more ambitious level, Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom" had a kind of vigorous gentleness — a tale of escape and survival in a magic place (a New England island), presided over by a factual angel (Bob Balaban), dispensing necessary geological and meteorological data, and unified by Benjamin Britten's music, which sealed the primacy of children in their wily innocence.

While on the run, he provided frequent updates on his bizarre tale of escape to members of the media and on his blog whoismcafee.com, where some posts, including one suggesting his double was caught at the border with a North Korean passport, have been deleted.

Ms. Bastianich also shares her own tale of escaping Yugoslavia with her family in 1956.

Others told harrowing tales of escape.

On the YouTube account of Vonis22 several English-speaking passengers recount their tales of escape.

Here, Janusz meets mercurial former actor Khabarov (Mark Strong) whose tall tales of escape inspire him to make a break.

They tell harrowing tales of escape from rebel-held territory, dodging artillery shells and bullets, before being evacuated to government-run camps.