Sentence examples similar to tale paragraph from inspiring English sources

Some of Lydia Davis's tales are just a paragraph.

A paragraph from "Tales of the South Pacific" is emblazoned on the off-white curtain of Lincoln Center's thrust stage.

Kaufman explains here that an exact replica of New York City would also have to occupy the same amount of space as New York City and there's a pleasingly direct echo here of the one-paragraph Borges tale in which a map is made of an empire "whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it".

I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.

Mr. Frucher's resignation is one more paragraph in the tangled tale of the agency, a staple of political patronage that takes in $1 billion a year in wagers and posts hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses each month.

But one of the lesser-mentioned aspects of this tale is buried in the 11th paragraph: .

Jo's imaginative tale takes up a few tangential paragraphs in Alcott's book.

In very brief — an exact précis of the tale's freaky turns would take paragraphs — Mr. Brugger decided that he wanted to expose the uglier, dirtier side of white diplomacy in Africa.

Now that Michel Martelly has been elected Haiti's next President, it seems almost unfair to rehash tales of his younger days, as the Times did in the first paragraph of its story announcing his victory.

By Reeves Wiedeman April 5, 2011 Now that Michel Martelly has been elected Haiti's next President, it seems almost unfair to rehash tales of his younger days, as the Times did in the first paragraph of its story announcing his victory.

To the Rough Rider's heroic military actions at Kettle and San Juan hills in Cuba -- the defining event in his life and a stunningly dramatic tale -- she devotes all of three paragraphs.