Sentence examples for the tale itself from inspiring English sources

It's production which, like the tale itself, lovingly celebrates the small and resourceful.

But it somehow diminishes the compact, satisfactory nature of the tale itself to gloss it in this way.

The effect was derived not only from the novelty of the tale itself but also from the imaginative skill of the narrator, who often added gestures and songs and occasionally adapted a particular tale to suit a certain culture.

Having related this story patiently and well, Mr. Pullman tells us what he really thinks: "The tale itself is disgusting," and "the tone of never-shaken piety is nauseating".

Also, when Maraniss departs from narrative and steps in to "tell" rather than "show," his presentation of themes can sound balder than the subtle complexities evident from the tale itself.

I'm not sure why, but I was immensely comforted — not by the tale itself, which of course was devastating, but, I suppose, by the trust, empathy, and vulnerability that flowed from the teller.

The story and disc end with a sneakily affecting self-esteem anthem, which, like the familiar tale itself, is buoyed by the author's lovely vocals".

The fairy tale itself became popular among the précieuses of upper-class France (1690 1710), and among the tales told in that time were the ones of La Fontaine and the Contes of Charles Perrault (1697), who fixed the forms of Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella.

The writer of the Judges version of this tale – which comes much later, of course, than the original tale itself, because it's a folk tale – the Judges version has done very little to cleanse the tale of what we can think of as its savagery or to transform the tale into anything that we might think appropriate for holy scripture.

As in a fairytale, and arguably in The Winter's Tale itself (the phrase meant a folk tale to Shakespeare's original audience), the protagonists are universal types placed in universal situations designed to highlight the basics of human response to the raw events of life, from birth to sex to death.

Buck later revealed that his initial inspiration for The Snow Queen was not the Andersen fairy tale itself, but that he wanted "to do something different on the definition of true love".