Sentence examples for teller power from inspiring English sources

Stories give the teller power over the chaos that surrounds him.

Others claimed that the Y2K bug would show the folly of computer dependence through disruptions in automated teller machines, power plants, elevators, airplanes and grocery line check-out stations.

He believes in the story-teller's power and told a tale to prove it.

Riccardo surreptitiously slips money into the satchel of the seaman, who discovers it and marvels at the fortune-teller's powers.

Like his protagonist, Vargas Llosa is a globetrotting man of adventure, easily multilingual, a teller of truth to power in his homeland, a writer unafraid to excoriate political leaders abroad.

It is intoxicating to get full attention in front of l50 people from someone who is truly gifted, as many fortune tellers are, with the power of quickly sizing up and reading one's personality.

Jasper Britton deftly captures Creon's transition from condemned truth-teller to heartless power-seeker.

Gossip, though, demonstrates how secrets can become currency, as the teller invests the hearer with power in exchange for esteem.

As anyone who has ever heard a really well-told story knows it can have spell-binding powers as the teller weaves a kind a magic between the story and the listeners.

Young women's sexual power may have alarmed tellers of fairy tales, but at least they were willing to address it.

Like the fortune teller, the Apb Thmob obtained his powers during a period of sickness.