Sentences with phrase «tales as»

Hong Kong About Blog Sarah Brennan is the Hong Kong based author of the best - selling Chinese Calendar Tales as well as the Dirty Stories series for kids!

I don't use outdated pagan fairy - tales as factual, I'm not a» carbon molester» like most of you.

The motif of transformation or metamorphoses is recurrent in the artist's practice; she often turns to mythological tales as a key point of inspiration.

MC One thing I've been dying to ask you is: Did you read fairy tales as a kid?

Why isn't Tales as widely regarded in the West as its fellow JRPGs (Japanese Role - Playing Games)?

Evidence seems to suggest that the story actually derives from pro-Christian tales as St. Patrick is known for evangelizing Christianity in the fifth - century to drive out the pagans, whom allegorically are «snakes» in the story.

Saints Row 2 leads the additional content charge with Ultor Exposed (we've just published our review), but there's DLC offered for Godfather II, HAWX, Midnight Club: LA, SmackDown 2009 and Mahjong Tales as well.

Velvet is unlike previous main characters in Tales as she has a much darker side that continues to get explored the further you progress in the game.

... there was a game designer called American McGee who having lived a life of dramatic ups and downs, decided to present a unique take on a selection of traditional fairy tales as a Table Top Card Game, Illustrated Book, Coloring Book, and Collection of Art.

Galaxy had a great story, and the Mario and Luigi RPG games have colorful tales as well.

I write about traveling as a vegetarian and have a page on FB veggie travel tales as well.

I enjoy island tales as much as the next guy, but this one seemed especially improbable.

Our little co-pilots wag their tales as we embark on a memorable outing.

I began spinning my own tales as soon as I could write.

She grew up listening to both her parents read such tales as C.S. Lewis» The Chronicles of Narnia, Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island and Kidnapped, and Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, among other classics.

Also glad to hear you like the concept of serial tales as a way to explore multi-story books.

Susanna Clarke, John Crowley, Charles de Lint, Karen Joy Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Lisa Goldstein, Tanith Lee, Patricia A. McKillip, Robin McKinley, Joyce Carol Oates, Delia Sherman, Midori Snyder, Peter Straub, Jane Yolen, Roger Zelazny and many others provide new takes on such familiar tales as Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Beauty and

Reading Grimm's Fairy Tales as a child.

I'm working now on «The Deepest Breath of Song», Oscar's story, though I will probably swap back and forth between it and the other two tales as I proceed to finish this thing up.

Technology is reshaping the business of storytelling, and the big players are tearing at each other's coat tales as they struggle to catch up.

As the scope is increasing, though, there will plenty of smaller, character - focused tales as well, Taylor adds.

We'll bring you more tantalizing turbo tales as soon as Honda's willing to tell them.

The students would need background knowledge of popular fairy tales as well as specific details about the roles the characters play.

Created for A-Level students and includes the following key information in an easy to understand, but high level presentation: The narrative with key quotations from each section of the text; Poetic devices; Structure of the text and significance; Links to the Canterbury Tales as a whole and literary context; Settings and explanations; The Franklin and how he is significant in telling this tale; Genre and the Breton Lay; What some of the key critics say about The Franklin's Tale; Notes on Kittredge and the marriage group of tales.

This is the PERFORMING LICENCE for Perilous Tales as a One Act Play It entitles you to perform up to two times You will need to buy the script separately.

As Hugh Jackman's P.T. Barnum starts selling the idea that using exaggerations, myths, and tall - tales as thinly - disguised truths are admirable, truth be damned.

PREDESTINATION is a good one, too, and I've heard good things about TALE OF TALES as well.

The 1982 comedy «Fast Times at Ridgemont High» is the prototypical coming - of - age guy flick best known for enduring stoner - surfer archetype Jeff Spicoli, played by future Oscar winner Sean Penn, the image of a topless Phoebe Cates and as the introduction to the amiable zen of screenwriter Cameron Crowe, who would go on to create such bro - riffic tales as «Say Anything,» «Singles,» «Jerry Maguire» and «Almost Famous.»

She told me a handful of tales as old as time about her dating horror stories.

They're clinging to bronze age fairy tales as if they were true, and condemning everyone who disagrees with them with silly threats of hell in an afterlife.

Shouldn't we grow up at some point and let the teachings of Jesus inform our spiritual lives and stop believing these fairy tales as «truth» as if that even mattered?

You actually prove his point by the way, he said people go to religion because of their fear of death and religion tells a variety of tales as to what happens when we die which often make people, as you say «happy to know they will go to Heaven» and yet has no proof of an afterlife.

Hmm, Yes, I heard similar fairy tales as a child back when I believed in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, but most of us grew out of those childish notions and we eventually became adults and joined the real world!

Divine power undergirding the powerless is visible in tales as varied as the deliverance of the baby Moses in the waters of the Nile and the reversal of odds in David's conquest of Goliath.

«Do you think that is why I am on trial [for atheism], because I can not believe such tall tales as these?»

laodegan takes pride in being a D CK while pointing fingers at anyone who doesn't believe in the same fairy tales as he / she / it does!

Of course you... he makes no sense but nor does the book you two think has facts, so it would be natural for two of the same ilk to deny evidence based facts and accept fairy tales as fact.

as a tool to control the masses using supernatural tales as its foundation... combining older myths to create a new one..

Bettelheim seems to have in mind such tales as «Hansel and Gretel» — one that he discusses at length — in which, although there are supernatural elements, it is the children's alertness, resourcefulness and self - control that enable them to win out over the malice of stepmother and witch.

After 1945, the occupying powers briefly viewed the Grimms» tales as part of the ideological roots of the defeated enemy.

In The Uses of Enchantment (Knopf, 1977) Bettelheim recommends fairy tales as providing the kind of subtle, low - key moral education children need.

But when we turn from the settled past to the future, we find that the continuum as such tells no tales as to how it shall be atomized.

god has been gradually pushed out of relevance, the bible «true» stories shown to be wrong... why do people still believe in these fairy tales as if word - for - word truth?

american redneck teach fairy tale as science..

Of course, Christianity as a whole is a fairy tale as well, but I guess even Christians are uncomfortable with Romney because the Mormon fairy tale is patently unbelievable even for people who believe in the older fairy tale.

Members will talk urgent among themselves, picking out weaknesses (real / imagined) that can be used to dismiss the complete tale as pathetic and un-actionable.

Your believe could be as a fairy tale as theirs.

Another way to put this is to say that in order to see this tale as parabolic one must allow Tolkien's world to be «the world,» and, as many have discovered, this is not hard to do.

The adaptation (starring Hugh Jackman, Rooney Mara and Amanda Seyfried among others), serves as a darker take on the classic tale as well as a sort of Captain Hook origins story.

After an adjustment period that could be described as «rough» at best, Deja became part of the Pearson family, grounding the Beth and Randall fairy tale as a rough - around - the - edges teenager, who didn't like being touched, had been abused and was in and out of foster homes.