Sentence examples for underdog tale from inspiring English sources

This is not Dodgeball, an Underdog Tale.

The story is a classic underdog tale that leans heavily on Cyrano de Bergerac.

"Moneyball" was a classic underdog tale about the cash-deprived Oakland A's; "Freakonomics" read like a series of detective stories.

Congratulations to him on all his financial success, but the Tom Ricketts story is not an underdog tale.

Dinner Lab knows that to turn a meal into an experience, you need to turn it into a story — ideally, a stirring, underdog tale starring the chef.

A great Brit comedy cast adds life to this otherwise routine underdog tale, set within the fraternity of Viking battle re-enacters and sci-fi box-set consumers.

I'd quite like to see Cibulkova win, but purely because underdog tales are nice.

The result is a super-likable triumph-of-the-underdog tale, which manages to skewer the hideous economics of America's touchstone game without ever dispelling its cinematic magic.

There's comfort in seeing even the second-generation cheerleader occupy a familiar role in a well-worn tale: the underdog story, the rivals-finding-common-ground story, the good-girl-wins-out story.

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

It is the classic underdog sports tale: it depicts an over-enthusiastic janitor's attempt to transform misfit students into Nebraska State tennis champions".