Sentence examples for tell familiar from inspiring English sources

Many of the most successful books tell familiar stories in new ways or from an unexpected perspective, so bring yourself to the book, but don't make it all about you (unless you're writing your autobiography, obviously).

Recent revelations about those held in Guantánamo tell familiar stories of information obtained under torture, of captives taken for money, of minors and pensioners being detained, of a number of innocent Uighurs held prisoner for years and of how simply choosing to wear a particular brand of watch can be seen as definitively incriminating.

All brilliant and necessary, but those movies all tell familiar narratives.

For a while it was refreshing with Cloverfield, Rec and The Bay all finding neat ways of telling familiar tales.

The way he tells familiar stories in unpredictable ways, without the moral black and white we saw before, really appeals to us".

Forging under pressure a new way of telling familiar (and family) stories, Malick also displays a conspicuously painterly boldness, a sort of cinematic Impressionism that locates an indelible force of light and detail in the stuff of daily life.

To find new ways to tell a familiar story.

— The picture in the 1947 A. B. Davis High School Yearbook seems to tell a familiar story.

But those 70,000 new jobless people have wretched tales to tell, so familiar they risk becoming humdrum.

Up to this point, Lanchester seems to be using Pepys Road to tell a familiar story of urban gentrification.

It's wrong to tell the familiar underdog morality tale in which the problems of the masses are caused by the elites.