Sentence examples for tales type from inspiring English sources

Paul retreated to his own study to view the regrettably quite PG-rated Tracy Gill video for the fourth or fifth time and to reread his high-school scripts and imagine them as the basis for a "Monty Python" cum "Fractured Fairy Tales" type of cable comedy hit.

Tale Type and Motif Indexes, 1987.

(Aarne-Thompson folk tale type 154, if you must know).

As if having a kid like theirs made them into some kind of charmed species, some imaginary fairy-tale type of nonhuman humans, people who never got bored or tired or horny.

He described the project as a "really sprawling, emotional nightmare fairy-tale type movie … about an abandoned orphan who gets lost in the woods", in conversation with The Playlist blog at Cannes in 2012.

Entombed within the ice core were quantities of a tell-tale type, or isotope, of hydrogen called deuterium.

The academic folklorist is equipped with some useful and interesting tools for literary analysis, armed as he or she is with the concepts of tale type and motif.

If the reader will accept that a recurring story about a house, usually haunted, operating as a link to a character's past and family, is a type by this definition (though not necessarily a folk-tale type), it is possible to see that specific works of literature for children echo and emphasize their ancestral folk legends and fairy tales.

It's not a fairy tale type song.

Was there a rape subtext in this tale type?

Lizzie often looks to these female friendships for some type of fairy-tale type transformation, which sets up some interesting tensions, especially around body image.