Sentence examples for textbook tale from inspiring English sources
It's a textbook tale that any high school student could explain.
Ever since, he has been beset by amateur historians, government officials and self-styled Columbus relatives of multiple nationalities clamoring for a genetic retelling of the standard textbook tale.
The textbook tale of lactose tolerance runs this way: All humans digest mothers' milk as infants, but until cattle were domesticated 9000 years ago, weaned children no longer needed to digest milk.
England's 2005 Ashes hero Andrew Freddiee" Flintoff dished up a textbook tabloid tale when he had a drunken run-in with a pedalo during the 2007 World Cup.
Part textbook, part cautionary tale, it was as minutely strategized -- and often as sincere -- as a modern political campaign.
This can be troublesome when you're trying to tell a pacey tale; textbooks are not spectacular.
She will be a textbook case and cautionary tale about blind love, ambition and foolishness.
But one textbook fact slows the narrative and erodes some of the romance of this tale: Funny Cide is a gelding, or a castrated horse.
"Les Hommes Libres" ("Free Men") is a tale of courage not found in French textbooks.
He argued that all students should learn her heroic tale, and that the government should produce a single history textbook for all students to study.
A primary-school math textbook was pronounced unfit, because it mentions characters from Western fairy tales.
