Sentences with phrase «american tall tale»

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Then, compare them to tall - tale traits represented in one or two of the selections in Mary Pope Osborne's American Tall Tales (1991) or in another, similar, collection.

Not exact matches

Historians: The Myth of CIA Role in ’53 Iran Coup Tall tales by «a scion of the American establishment — former CIA agent and presidential grandson Kermit Roosevelt — and...

Taking a distinctly right - wing point of view when considering the not inconsiderable problems with the American justice system, it shamelessly pushes all the right emotional buttons as it tells the tall tale of the... Read More»

Despite the fact that over 2.5 million children are served by over 6,500 charter schools across the country, the majority of Americans have been swayed by tall tales and misinformation about the role of charter schools in our public education system.

Both A. Loudermilk's «Clutching Pearls» and Michael W. Raymond's «A Not - So - Tall Tale» were chosen from River Teeth as Notable Essays of 2002 in The Best American Essays, 2002.

Such writing can include traditional or mainstream short - short stories as well as various other types such as American haibun, ghost stories, monologues, epistles, mysteries, myths, tall tales, fables, anti-fables, parables, romance, fairy tales, horror, suspense, science fiction, prose poetry, and more.

I'd thought of the story of Mae Crow's murder as a kind of tall tale all my life and had even questioned whether African Americans ever really lived in Forsyth.

Nancy Davidson's Dustup offers a humorous, absurdist critique of the American cowgirl as a spectacle to admire, a tall tale fantasy of western legend.