Sentence examples for type of tale from inspiring English sources

Plotting is no less basic in this type of tale; it just pretends otherwise.

Unfortunately, it can be difficult to tell this type of tale when the actress playing the character who is supposed to be maturing is already a grown woman.

And Mr. Djalili manages to make his foul-mouthed character — goodness, those moderate Muslims curse a lot — an object of sympathy, essential for pulling off this type of tale.

(He would soon score a very different type of tale of obsession, "Lawrence of Arabia").

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As long as we have this problem we're going to have all types of versions and variants of this same type of tale".

The play could only have worked because Peele's audience recognised the motifs and appreciated his ingenuity in reconciling themes from so many different types of tale and from so many versions of those types.

This type of story includes tales of Irish saints traveling to Iceland or Greenland, as well as fabulous tales of pagan heroes journeying to the otherworld (echtrae).

In the industrialized Western society of the 20th century, myths and related types of tales continue to be told.

This type of fairy tale — red lips, mystery, enchanted hunters, horror and tragedy — strikes me as wonderfully Nabokovian.

It was adopted by Russian formalist critics in the early 20th century for a type of folk tale (from skazat, "to tell"), and was more recently popularised by David Lodge.