Sentence examples for tale of learning from inspiring English sources

The personal history related by Mr. Joel, who was born in the Bronx and brought up in Hicksville, N.Y., is a tale of learning to roll with some heavy punches.

Rich in metaphor and glancing allusion, it is a tale of learning and anti-learning, sects and cults, the complex sexual relationships of humans and snails.

While Ben's tales of learning how to turn tricks in San Francisco may have a strong titillation factor (especially for those outside the Bay area who view San Francisco as a cesspool of hedonism), the sad truth is that his story is hardly new.

Yet there is something both engaging and unique about Jeff Nichols' plain-spoken tale of youngsters learning hard lessons about the nature of love and the darker side of the adult world.

In order to rule out non-specific effects of learning the tale, another group of participants learned the story without prior reactivation of autobiographical memories [15].

We don't need to witness firsthand the horrors of "The Handmaid's Tale" to learn from that novel's political divisions.

The reader begins in the middle of the tale, learning about previous events only through Odysseus's retelling.

This colourful tale of a woodpecker learning to peck was written by the multi award winning creator of Maisy (who sold over 28 million copies worldwide!).

ANDROID This lovely tale of a robot learning about life on a remote space station could be remade as a Moon-type experience.

Now that ice fishermen actually talk to each other and to strangers, nearly all of them have a tale about learning the craft from their fathers or grandfathers.

Those who do relate the experience with a gritty black humour – you might hear the tale of a parrot that learned to mimic the whistle of an incoming shell, unwittingly sending people diving for cover.