Sentence examples for tale references from inspiring English sources

Berardinelli felt that the fairy tale references were not as smartly done as in the first Shrek film, while Bernard felt that Hoodwinked! took fairy tale revisionism too far.

Spanning a diverse range of subjects and images — from children's snacks to medical terms to fairy-tale references — "The Magic Kingdom" charts the disorienting experience of outliving the people and objects that constitute a life.

Its feminine name Ileana was probably a borrowing from Romanian folklore, and may reference the fairy tale character Ileana Cosânzeana.

He is primal with respect to color and technique, yet he tells his tale with references to the darker side of the collective contemporary social condition and our quick to throw away and ever-upgrading technology.

Critics like Paula Nechak have called the film a "bold cautionary tale", with references to the pressure of conformity and acceptance, and some critics even cite parallels to Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain (2005).

He remained stage-struck as well as balletomaniacal, which is why so many of his tales have references to those performing arts and to opera.

The tale makes reference to Bolli's military prowess, in ironic contrast to the tale's protagonist:.

Last year saw the award-season success of "Whiplash," another making-the-music tale that referenced a jazz great, in that case Charlie Parker, as well as the release last summer of James Brown story "Get On Up".

In that way this story also references W. W. Jacobs's story "The Monkey's Paw" — another tale about wishing.

In conveying the vagaries along their path to eventual happiness, Chabon liberally larded the tale with mythological references.

It's that very tale, reinforced by references to "Romeo and Juliet" and "West Side Story," that shapes all of "Brooklyn Babylon".