How To Use Tale In A Sentence

A few talented writers en dowed with originality and exceptional animation, a few brilliant efforts, isolated, without following, interrupted and recommenced, did not suffice to endow a nation with a solid and imposing basis of literary wealth. Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
Revenge is a by-the-book sequel, crowbarring in all of the memorable features of the first movie, spicing them up with even more ludicrous ultra violence and adding a few new twists to the tale.
Back in our world, custom has perhaps staled Shakespeare's infinite variety a bit.
Week two, however, was just a killer and has me doubting the talent in a lot of areas that I thought were all set.
[456] A mina was a little over £4; 60 minas made a talent. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1

A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive. Walt Disney
There was a powerful smell of stale beer.
That said, the chemistry between the two brings a thrilling tingle of excitement to the tale. Times, Sunday Times
There was something captivating about this man, who dedicated much of his time to his artistic talents, his creative genius, and photographic exhibits.
More volunteers follow with lurid tales of domestic mishaps, each earning applause. Times, Sunday Times
The result is a hilarious tale which often twists and turns like no other. The Sun
But true-life tales of memory loss don't offer just drama - they also shed light on the mysteries of identity and personality.
She has the ambition and talent to make something of herself.
Something of an all-star outfit, each band member is an accomplished musician with an impressive r sum and enormous talent.
His second album released with Sony showed his talent as a serious music writer of original works.
Tom Tedder's tragedy was that he had a perfectly accurate estimate of his own talents as an artist.
Sifting through the reports logged in the last couple of weeks, he came across a tale that had previously gone unread. EVERVILLE
Nick managed to move his battered body quickly enough to launch his own counter-blast, successfully stalemating the battleship's beam.
Indeed, "My mother said I could be no lad, till I was twentye, '* is a passage I notice in my Milton with a view to this; which see; and therein also of a shep - herdess" taking the tale. The Rolliad, in Two Parts: Probationary Odes for the Laureatship; and Political Eclogues and ...
‘Alexa's always the one who convinces my parents to let us have sleepovers on school nights and stuff,’ says Natalee.
That's no mean boast, since there's a surfeit of super-featherweight talent around.
Bromley's sporting talent is to be rewarded in the Excellence Awards in recognition of their achievements.
I am listening to your day-tales, though I wonder that this time might be better spent mistranslating health warnings from foreign cigarettes and pasting them to a gallery wall or, perhaps, composing a biro haiku on the arch of a foot, proclaiming: Day 9: Better Spent Time
Unfortunately, I found the obvious talents of him and the director to have been gelded along the way and prevented from reaching the level of punch and impact that I think could have otherwise been delivered.
This kid friendly fairy tale about an unsightly ogre was both heartwarming and very funny.
I had mixed feelings when I learned of your new assignment. Although we will miss you, we have to admit that management has made a wise choice in placing you where they can benefit most from your talents. We will long remember the hard work and happy moments we have shared. You have been a great team member. Best wishes and keep up the good work.
Some of their work, he felt, was terrific, and they should be able to display and develop their talent.
The Tale of Genji has been described as the greatest achievement of Japanese literature.
The editors of BLACK ENTERPRISE recognize that philanthropy is the giving of money, time, and talent.
She has a reservoir of talent, which needs to be nurtured and taken to higher levels.
At least we get a trailer and a filmography that does a decent job of showcasing the film, and the talent involved.
The franchise mode has been expanded with a scouting report and a minor league system that will let hands on managers cultivate talent.
This is a comparatively extrovert third album from the talented and technically advanced young Scots harper and pianist, now sojourning in Barcelona and soaking up even more musical influences.
Tom Tedder's tragedy was that he had a perfectly accurate estimate of his own talents as an artist.
All this material reveals Daley as a writer of more variegated talents than was previously realised.
I think we have to distinguish those narratives which crudely manipulate fear or repulsion and disgust from that which Lovecraft correctly calls ‘the weird tale’.
I've harped on about this before, but was interested in Bryan Caplan's critqiue of the Levy-Peart project: I'm going after analytical egalitarians because they're wasting their talent and energy defending the undefendable. Baffled by "Analytical Egalitarianism", Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
This is not a dishy, tell-all tale of wasted days and wasted nights.
Pre-season training will be an important time for Charlie because players with his talent should be performing at a high standard more often than not.
Loss of bounciness, sudden blisters or recurring pain are also telltale signs.
The best parts of Brian's talent are still here, as if this was the long-delayed sequel to Smile or something, as the close-cropped vocal harmonies, the thick arrangements, and his affecting, if quaky lead vocals are all here in force.
True enough, there was a tell-tale head-shaped indentation on my pillow this morning, but that could mean anything.
He's a talented athlete who competes nationally and internationally.
His talent is raw and undisciplined.
Shakespearean tales of love as sacrifice, conquest or unrequited passion are beyond reason.
The herstory of the battered women's movement in Florida is a cautionary tale.
While it is true that the Hogwarts tales are supposed to appeal to young readers, personnel at bookstalls say that there is no dearth of adult readers who cannot wait to see what Rowling has in store in the new book.
I found my page and there was a photo of myself and underneath it my talents were pithily described.
Their opera is the mysterious and darkly moving tale of what happened after the pied piper left Hamelin.
His exceptional talent at putting acrylics and oils together on board and letting them ooze is a lesson on how to do this kind of thing and all those kids in ARI-land should get down to the Wynne and check it out.
Success has come so naturally that the young Italian exudes an innate, unquestioned belief in his own talents.
Eurovision is the grandaddy of all talent shows and the Super Bowl of singing.
That allowed him to adjust and adapt his sprawling tale. Times, Sunday Times
And it adds piquancy to the tale that many of these changes appear to be lifted straight out of her own book of cultural reform.
The region has a large and talented labour pool .
But judicious," Natalenko squeaked, in the high eunuchoid voice that came so incongruously from his bulk. Lone Star Planet
Other people's fairy tales always is romantic, but my fairy tale but never be miserable.
The rise and fall of this company is a cautionary tale for anyone investing in the property market.
This Navajo folk tale describes the creation of the Earth.
Her tale has a consciously youthful tone and storyline, combined with a sly humour.
The latest crisis in West Indies cricket and the unceremonious sacking of the best WI talent is the ultimate insult to West Indians.
Too many soldiers have returned from combat with tales of faulty equipment. Times, Sunday Times
Bringing what little money he had saved after sending Serafina her giros postales, he would burst into the familiar cantinas on Santa Fe Street and buy beer for his old acquaintances. Centennial
Readers will discover an entertaining tale of Peri, a sad prince and a sea dragon.
Something of an all-star outfit, each band member is an accomplished musician with an impressive r sum and enormous talent.
He speculates about the personal stories of strangers in bars and offers up tales of his childhood with the ease of a trusted friend.
A talented winemaker whose drinking wine of the moment is Shiraz, Debbie has a clear idea about the wine that she likes to produce and the wine she likes to drink.
Now, after Jacob Oram ricked his back, yet another twist in the tale as McMillan was recalled!
I had mixed feelings when I learned of your new assignment. Although we will miss you, we have to admit that management has made a wise choice in placing you where they can benefit most from your talents. We will long remember the hard work and happy moments we have shared. You have been a great team member. Best wishes and keep up the good work.
But before we declare this the happy ending of a feminist fairytale, we must look at the more sinister afterword.
He always wrote like an angel, even though cogent political thinking did not figure among his talents.
This anthology pairs contemporary stories with folk tales, many of which interpret natural phenomena in the light of local knowledge and lore.
How can our brave Bible-bashing warlords keep spinning tales of freedom & reconstruction, while presiding over scenes of torture and slaughter? TURNING UP THE HEAT
We should look to the glory and splendor of the arena … Where even the most untalented one-hit-wonder will be able to regain a sliver of dignity before their untimely demise. 2010 February « The Graveyard
The cinematic look of the film deserves commendation alone and the director is a talent to look out for.
Often each also has his own style of handwriting, announced gender, cultural and racial background, artistic talents, foreign language fluency, and IQ.
Her work provided no outlet for her energies and talents.
With heavy rain now falling, the game became bogged down in a midfield stalemate.
Many other species of Callia also resemble other malacoderms; and the longicorn genus Lycidola has been named from its resemblance to various species of the Lycidae, one of the species here figured (Lycidola belti) being a good mimic of Calopteron corrugatum and of several other allied species, all being of about the same size and found at Chontales. Darwinism (1889)
The early Mesozoic was dominated by ferns, cycads, ginkgophytes, bennettitaleans, and other unusual plants.
The story of their trip to see the giant had become stale. Times, Sunday Times
But it didn't take many years of experience to realize that glibness is a minor talent, like being good at video games or foosball.
Our tale is about a journalist who decides to go to the Soviet Union to get a big scoop for the front page of his newspaper.
Perhaps because most of the cast is made up of relative no-names, we shouldn't expect the caliber of their talent to be very high, but more of the blame for the poor performances can be laid at the director's feet.
His talent is amazing, his superb phrasing and sense of rhythm as flawless as a perfectly cut diamond.
It is also nationally important for breeding African spoonbills (Platalea alba) and purple swamp-hens (Porphyrio porphyrio). Inner Niger Delta flooded savanna
But I did, and managed to pull off, not unhandily, a tale called ` A Wayside Comedy’ where I worked for a certain ` economy of implication,’ and in one phrase of less than a dozen words believed I had succeeded.
She shifts effortlessly from folk and blues to upbeat tangos and haunting instrumentals, all interspersed with humorous tales of her life on the road.
An unclassifiable mixture of animation, drama, love story, coming-of-age-tale-slash-concert movie, Hedwig is adapted from Mitchell's off-Broadway hit of the same name.
He is the most talented young English player around and as such he is under the microscope.
To write about the Donner Party, one has to address this aspect of the tale; but I haven't dwelled on it in Snow Mountain James Houston discusses Bird of Another Heaven
Lord of the Rings, the tale of a pacifist-turned-assassin lugging a rifle to a dictator's heartland in order to get off that one critical shot. Zornhau: Merlin's Snake Oil – or why arcanists are not artillery
In life he was regarded as an awkward customer, a cranky, eccentric figure with a talent for rubbing people up the wrong way.
One week after this story was written, the top 20 pop albums in the United States included records by fresh-faced adolescents the Beatles, teen sensation Bob Seger, twentysomething heartthrob Frank Sinatra, a barely-postpubescent but preternaturally-talented Bob Marley, recent high school graduate Rod Stewart, former boy band member Johnny Cash, newly-discovered youth sensation Barry White, and a band whose name is synonymous with "teenage rebellion": Pink Floyd. Sirilyan Diary Entry
Although he had no actual plans, he knew that his road would be made dear and so he waited, getting by on talent and saving his genius for when his name would be called.
'It can only have been the condition that is called catalepsy,' said Challenger. The Poison Belt
Unhelpful Labels: art for arts sake, tales from the cafe Archive 2009-02-01
Based on a Korean fairy-tale, this light and witty piece of chinoiserie tells the story of a Mandarin's daughter who is engaged to a rich Ambassador but loves an impoverished youth.
Slowly, Dummy regains both his voice and his confidence, and finally, in a fairy-tale ending, even his identity when King Richard recognizes him as his long-lost godson.
Complain though we may about "Saturday Night Live," the show is still the greatest training ground for comic talent around -- and Monday night's special belabors the obvious with inarguably entertaining results. Tom Shales reviews tonight's retrospecial,'The Women of "Saturday Night Live"'
from two handsome and talented young men to two haunting horrors of disintegration
It is a disturbing, dark tale and perhaps one the victims might have been better left to recover from in peace. Times, Sunday Times
They were civilized people who knew when society gets stale. Times, Sunday Times
This then simmers for half an hour before being baked for an hour in a pan layered with very stale bread, Gruyere cheese, and the onion soup mixture.
That was one of the talents I - as Jake, never Andrew - had acquired over the two years of captivity, both in the juvie circuit and out.
* Quod si in hoc erro, quod animos hominum immortales esse credam, libenter erro, nec mihi hunc errorem quo delector, dum vivo, extorqueri volo; sin mortuus, ut quidam minuti philosophi censent, nihil sentiam, non vereor ne hunc errorem meum mortui philosophi irrideant: [784] 1 The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 08.
Je sais que je n'ai pas de talent mais au moins meme des critiques ca me donnerai le courage de continuer car il faut savoir que toutes critiques envers moi sont prises de maniere constructives ... Pinku-tk Diary Entry
No wonder her work is cutting through the stale, stodgy world of Scottish desserts like a red hot knife through a wodge of sticky toffee pudding.
The designer whose work can bear such attention successfully is a rare talent indeed.
There is a splendid tale of the latter, his pen dripping in irony and vitriol, composing a letter to the United board congratulating them on their ground improvements in the aftermath of his own promises to build a new stadium.
He tells a tale of Montrealer 20-somethings and their fractured threesome. Brad Balfour: Films in Review: Two of the Next Generation for Francophiles
Hence, "the horror of the taille depopulates the rural districts, concentrating in the towns all the talents and all the capital [5254]. The Ancient Regime
Always a late riser, I'd wake up around eleven every morning to brunch at a deliciously set table where my ‘roomie’, as I called her, would regale me with the tale of her day so far.
In this way the self-interested use of power can restrict the recruitment of talented individuals to highly rewarded positions.
On the downside, this dependency on biography and history means that sometimes the tales do not stand in their own right.
The film follows the relationship between sexy femme fatale Suzy and young lawyer Jim, which eventually leads to a murderous crime of passion.
Where the Sumerian tale presents the deluge as the work of an intemperate overlord whose attitude to humanity is far from benevolent, whose might may not be right, and offers an ethical opposition to him in figure of a merciful intercessor, the Biblical tale ultimately sanctions the genocidal destruction of most of humanity by ascribing it to a God whose wisdom, justice and mercy are presented as unquestionable. Creative Control - Part 4
On the page and on the screen, "Kick-Ass" riffs on the wish-fulfillment afforded by tales of derring-do and the ill-advisedness of taking on the task in real life. PaloAltoOnline.com
She is a talented farceur, too, and there are some superb set-pieces. Times, Sunday Times
The talent of success is nothing more than doing well whatever you do without a thought of time.
How weary, flat, stale, and unprofitable / Seem to me all the uses of this world
I don't rate myself as a fantastic, talented athlete. I just have perseverance. I'm a cart horse. I work hard.
The competitive infatuation with ‘signature’ skyscrapers may continue to get the publicity, but some of the best young talents are staking their claims and reputations on the ground.
The fairy tale romance has come to an abrupt and totally unexpected end.
It takes a rather talented and unique skillset to decapsulate and dump eeprom's with microfiber:) Infact, the Xbox-Scene News
Inasmuch as the defence needs only to secure the vote of one juryman to procure a disagreement, this offer is a comparatively safe one for the defendant to make, since the prosecutor, who must secure unanimity on the part of the jury (at least in New York State), can afford to take no chances of letting an incompetent or otherwise unfit talesman slip into the box. Courts and Criminals
Complete with wobbly bridges, turrets and wonky roof lines, it looks as if it comes straight from the pages of a fairytale. Times, Sunday Times
His answer offers no fairy tales of salvation or a paradisiacal afterlife. Michael Brenner: The Buddha As Icon
The frontier has been an active source for American folktales dealing with characters such as Paul Bunyan, Johnny Appleseed, John Henry, and Mike Fink.
She listens as to a fairy tale, and then I tell her of the stellar crystals concealed in the rough crust of the amygdaloid. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873
Come on, this whodunit tale is quite engrossing with its frequent tosses, turns and twists.
We need people with talent, whatever their political persuasions.
Even my feet are beginning to move slightly and it takes bombs to bring out any rudimentary terpsichorean talents that I possess.
This point-of-view tale meanders and stumbles in a blurry daze with characters coming and going.
A similar dynamic was probably at play with this traditional tale.
Does not the use of the Na-Khi material in those cantos tell its own tale?
A tautly told tale of psychological tension and chilling moral complexity, The Last Secret accelerates to a shattering conclusion as it explores the irreparable consequences of one family's crimes of the heart. The Last Secret: Summary and book reviews of The Last Secret by Mary McGarry Morris.
They even visit Canterbury on their way, but the tales they tell (mostly to us, not each other) are the bitter-sweet flashbacks of memory, not episodes of instructive fiction.
That this witty pioneer of the blogosphere, who made her name deflating the pretentions of the insider club of thin-skinned mediawhores no longer identifies with that sentiment is a cautionary tale. Hullabaloo
You catch the dry talcum smell of old ladies, which can't quite disguise the reek of stale sweat.
Despite a trim silhouette, this mini CD / amplifier combo is so good that even high-end hi-fi systems risk being KOd by its talents.
Crikey readers have contributed a lot of stories on circulation rorts, fiddles and the like over the past week or so, but here's another tale, a bit historical, which would be hysterical if it wasn't serious.
An everyday tale of a commonplace ballet company!
People who commit these falsehoods may be people of talent, and, as Goethe says of himself, may have "desire to fabulate. Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
It's wry humour that permeates the tale rather than bitterness.
Kristen Fennimore of New Egypt, N.J., counts herself among the than 35 million Americans plagued by seasonal allergic rhinitis — also known as hay fever, a condition characterized by sneezing, stuffiness, a runny nose and the telltale itchiness in the nose, roof of the mouth, throat, eyes or ears. The nose knows: Allergy season here with vengeance
‘He had taken a very early portable video camera to film the Yanomami Healing, a preliterate Amazonian tribe,’ says Talen.
He also keeps himself fairly socially active, spearheading a charity to benefit inner-city youths of musical talent.
The tale of the Fisher King involves a king who is lame in one leg (a euphemism for impotency) which in turn causes the land to become barren (infertile).
To the extent of such a trifling loan as a crownpiece to a man of your talents, I look upon Mr Pecksniff as certain; 'and seeing at this juncture that the expression of Mr Martin Chuzzlewit
Everywhere in the 19th century students of folklore itself a newly invented word plumped up their local legends, sagas and fairy tales just as much as Jacob Grimm and Richard Wagner did in Germany. Hitler's Golden Book
The Curé would follow the Queen as she collected this small tax for her poor people, a levy which often totaled as much as much as one hundred 'louis' and never less than fifty. Almsgiving of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette
In "Austerlitz," W.G. Sebald performs a small but significant miracle: he wrests the Holocaust out of the clutches of stale cliche. Blending Fact With Fiction
I differ with great diffidence from the learned Baron whose Oriental reading was extensive; but the tale does not seem to justify his explanations. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
I was brought up on tales of Brits exploring the world and this has always inspired me.
The first performance was of Charles Gounod's Faust, the fascinating tale of a German sorcerer who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge, power, youth, and love.
She tells us tales of ambulances collecting women in labour to take them to the hospital delivery suites, only to be held up at a checkpoint where the women give birth.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
We had been involved in an historical adventure as gripping as any detective tale or spy thriller.
Hers was a classic tale of rags to riches.
Thus might they outspeed the tales of their coming, surprising the demons and their human servants. Conan and The Mists of Door
Zoey pointed upward to their right to a large, light-colored bird whose wide wingspread showed off dark patches on the wings and tale. Devlin’s Light
It's a classic noir detective tale but as well as a crime to be solved there's a philosophical mystery in the making.
The album as a whole sets you in the back of a 70's jazz café, where you can witness budding young musicians showcasing their talents.
Dentro de los planes que tiene para mejorar su calidad de vida, esta la compra de un tanque de almacen de agua potale, debido a que el vital liquido no abastece en la zona y amenaza a la producción por la sequía, ella solicita un prestamo para la compra de materiales fertilizantes e insumos vegetativos que aporten un mejor mantenimientos agronomo a sus tierras y garantizen un crecimiento óptimo a la cosecha, esta inyección de capital a futuro le favorecera, para el establecimiento de 1 cuarto de manzana de piña, que le ayudara economicamente a la incursion en nuevos rubros y el mejoramiento continuo de sus niveles de vida. Kiva Loans
They seem to know that in leaner and livelier form their courtroom dramas, geisha memoirs, and horse-whisperer romances would not be taken seriously, and that it is precisely the lack of genre-ish suspense that elevates them to the status of prize-worthy "tales of loss and redemption. A Reader's Manifesto
Complex analysis of the international tale of the hero or heroine who glimpses a forbidden sight and suffers for it.
At the age of five he showed exceptional talent as a musician.
Makino's singing highlight may appear on "Magic Mountain," where her sweet, elfin melodies tell a tale of time on a mountain, stricken with loneliness.
She has a God-given talent for singing.
She is miscast as the semi-femme fatale.
She was also a grand needle woman, a talent which rather curiously led to a change in her religious affiliations.
The fresh tale follows the familiar style of the original - the eponymous hero magically transported from a suburban fancy-dress shop to a new world.
He's made a name for himself as a talented journalist.
This new competition focuses on up-and-coming talented young players in the brass band world.
At the Bruins' talent level, there are few opportunities for confidence-building victories.
Your current shoes may show the telltale signs of overpronation (too much inward rolling of the foot) or excessive supination (too much outward rolling), so bring them along for the salesperson to examine. Long May You Run
When you take away the sex, drugs and tattletales, the remaining story is very ordinary.
The reporter is revealed to have a wooden leg, prompting Roger to launch into another of his weird family tales, this one about a peglegged uncle. Chron.com Chronicle
He sang in the choir, was a talented musician and a keen sportsman.
The custom of carving jack-o'-lanterns can be traced back to an old Irish folk tale.
She was proud that her daughter had so much talent.
The crowd cheered on the unknown Tunisian, hoping for a fairy-tale ending to the race.
Sister Aimee was a talented thespian as well as a legendarily eloquent preacher.
She looked thinner, the telltale sign of a recent illness evident in the dark circles under her eyes.
But when a talent scout discovered young Allegra in a eurhythmics class at the age of 3 and wanted to put her on television, her parents' initial reaction was that she was too young. Thestar.com - Home Page
No one is born a genius.Just keep on doing what you like and that itself is a talent.
The son inherits his father's driving talent and makes a name for himself as street car racing hotshot.
A good tale is none the worse for being twice told.
Kanako Ito, the highly talented violinist and concertmistress of the Kansas City Symphony, will perform Mendelssohn’s “Violin Concerto in E Minor” on a Symphony Classical Series performance Oct. 23-25. KansasCity.com: Front Page
She succeeded by virtue of her tenacity rather than her talent.
You are such a talented and smart member of our team and we are truly grateful of having you. Though, you decide to walk an extra mile we are always here to support you. We just wish you more success on your new endeavor. Thank you because the way you motivate us is something remarkable.
The telltale charts of my crescograph {FN8-2} are evidence for the most skeptical that plants have a sensitive nervous system and Autobiography of a Yogi
She alerts her sister Procne by weaving the tale into a tapestry — then the sisters plot against Tereus. See Delphi and Die
So at the end of the night, when we cashed out, whatever money we had over the gross amount of the totaled checks, we kept as tips.
Fat, perspiring men and women were furiously fanning paper plates in a doomed effort to circulate the stale air.
Its brief run here features a string of celebrity couples donating their talents to raise money for the Sacramento Theatre Company.
He had a talent for telling blatant lies with angelic suavity. The Times Literary Supplement
Whether or not this little tale is true, it does pack an admonitory sting in its tale.
It also gave him a valuable insight into the world of theatre and inspired him to develop his childhood talents.

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