Sentence examples for vague tale from inspiring English sources

But the vague tale suggested by Ms. DeMent's Hitchcockian chambermaid figure, arriving and departing with a small suitcase as the musicians moved from one setting to another, never really cohered.

After it was all over, Mr. Burrough writes, a "vague tale" began making the rounds that "a group of hedge fund managers actually celebrated Bear's collapse at a breakfast that following Saturday morning and planned a similar assault on Lehman the next week".

Walker interviewed some participants in the Phips expedition, whose vague tales did nothing to relieve his concerns about what he could expect on the river.

Several books of Chicago and Illinois ghost stories included vague tales about Mrs. Luetgert's ghost haunting the former factory or the nearby house where the family had lived.

He wasn't a faceless headline, wasn't a cautionary tale, wasn't a vague story of justice.

Social justice is more of a vague value tale, here – a little something to graft onto the already remarkable footage of the monkeys in their world.

It's hardly the boy-meets-girl stuff of grandpa and grandma's musical theater, and for a while, anyone unfamiliar with the movie will, most likely, wonder where bookwriter Peter Duchan and songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (soon be represented on Broadway with their adaptation of the holiday chestnut A Christmas Story) are going with this vaguely distasteful tale.

That unease continues in the story, a vague yet mesmerizing tale of emotional isolation and mental degradation.

(Dargis) 'Simon Killer' (No rating, 1 45) Expressed in an oblique, slow-reveal style, Antonio Campos's vague yet mesmerizing tale of a recently dumped American (Brady Corbet, outstanding) unraveling in Paris offers a crawling portrait of emotional isolation and mental degradation.

Each story is accompanied by a small abstract map, although it does no more than vaguely indicate the tale's location.

Then there's the first in some maddeningly cack-handed faux-archive documentary footage of Hank's manager, Fred Rose Bradley Whitfieldd), who vaguely narrates the tale after his client's death at 29.