Sentences with phrase «as tall a tale»

Anderson likes to frame his films as tall tales, placing viewers at a gentle remove from reality to a plane of existence more fantastic and charmed than our own.

But on its own conventional terms, the film succeeds — maybe not as a «Coen Brothers» movie, but as a tall tale well told.

The Ford Mustang's styling, pricing, and a pitch - perfect PR blitz (including placement on the covers of both Time and Newsweek) may have helped bolster its popularity, but had any of these next three vehicle either gained traction in the marketplace or been built as originally intended, there's a chance Ford's pony car legend might not be quite as tall a tale as it stands today.

With little or no hard evidence, and the size of the waves often growing with each telling, there is little surprise that scientists long dismissed them as tall tales.

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«That much may indeed be true, but it was one of many of the tall tales that further evolved into a truism of sorts, that was basically «accepted» as such by historians, press and mafia history aficionados,» Cipollini said.

When we trust people, we recognize their jokes as jokes, their metaphors as metaphors, and their fishing stories for the tall tales that they are.

Too many people, Pinker says, still believe in tall tales and pseudo-religious tricks (also known as miracles).

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

Why do the impossible feats of miracles or prayer remain feasible when all the other tall tales are dismissed as fantasy?

Of course she had a lot of tall tales to share with me as (and some that weren't tall at all), as we chatted and cut the pasta into long strands.

But as with everybody in baseball, there is a book on the Boston Red Sox righthander, and it is at once a short story and a tall tale.

Trump's tale about why he took $ 150,000 in 9/11 money is as tall as the Downtown skyscraper he says he used in recovery efforts, according to government records.

They were dismissed as sailors» tall tales, but they're real: huge waves that rise without warning and can destroy ships.

SPOKANE, Wash. — A cloud type that spawns tall tales almost as much as Sasquatch is known to linger over peaks in the Cascade Range.

As a librarian, I have classified fairy tales, tall tales, fables and legends under the -LSB-...]

Suddenly finding himself as the proverbial big man on campus, Gulliver grossly exaggerates his achievements in Manhattan, creating all kinds of tall tales about his importance and positions.

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»

Grammer's turn as a dad with a penchant for tall tales is the best part of this middling paean to narcissistic fantasy, based on Tim Burton's movie

As is, this joins Volume 1, Cars 2, and the Mater's Tall Tales collection as one of the rare Pixar releases you can probably do withouAs is, this joins Volume 1, Cars 2, and the Mater's Tall Tales collection as one of the rare Pixar releases you can probably do withouas one of the rare Pixar releases you can probably do without.

Most of the people Burt meets along the way stem from an over-imaginative imagination, but such larger - than - life characters are completely in keeping with the kind of tall tale this weird and wonderful odyssey plays out as.

The story tells the tale of a family of four - inch - tall people, called Borrowers, who live hidden about the humans or beans as they are called in the film.

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 damneAs 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 damneas thinly - disguised truths are admirable, truth be damned.

Landing a second job as a TV personality on Showtime (where his boss is played by Teri Hatcher), Erik is enjoying his newfound respect — especially the look in the eyes of his adoring son Teddy (Dakota Goyo), to whom he's told more than a few tall tales (such as being buddies with John Elway).

Gibson's choice to give Wallace a grandiose mystique makes the story difficult to take as anything but a tall tale, especially as he applies the war paint and storms in and out of castles on horseback.

Steven Soderbergh's return to feature filmmaking is a leisurely paced tall tale about a racetrack robbery, with Channing Tatum and Adam Driver as smart, soulful bumpkins, Riley Keough as their can - do sister, and Daniel Craig as the mad criminal genius whose usefulness to their operation is impeded by his incarceration.

As Prince tells his tall tales, ranging from hilarious to horrific, Scorsese keeps up a dialogue with both subject and crew.

That's because it's really a spy movie: the tale of a mutual seduction — between dreamy, bookish 17 - year - old Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and tall, suave, mysterious Oliver (Armie Hammer)-- in which everything that happens is treated as a tradecraft secret.

The only other «Good» element of «The Good Dinosaur» is Sam Elliot's voice - work as a T - rex with a nasty scar and tall tales of his adventures battling outlaws.

His popular tall tale is claiming his father, John Carter, has worked as an astronaut, sports coach, and lucrative businessman.

With the help of the Canadian government as well a pair of old guard Hollywood stalwarts, the mission's success and failure ultimately hinged on everyone's ability to sell this ludicrous tall tale as one of utmost reality.

Italian Spice — Gavin Farmer tries out a 1959 Lancia Appia Zagato that spent nearly 40 years in America before being rebuilt in Australia / Ground Breaker — Douglas Blain slips into the cockpit of a priceless Type S Grand Prix Delage / Stoop's Sebring — Michael Bowler looks back at 10 years» ownership of one of the three historic Frazer Nash Sebrings / Ripple Over the Water — Malcolm Tucker tells the story of a Rolls - Royce that might have been / Atlanta's Golden Apples — Further reminiscences of Richard Gaylard Shattock about his Atlanta racing days as told by Anthony Pritchard / The Grimsby Giant — Michael Worthington - Williams tells the tall tale of the Lloyd made in Grimsby / Ballot Breeding — After the Great War Ernest Ballot embarked on a racing programme to promote his proprietary engines.

Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No - Bullshit Guide to World Mythology is the book form of O'Brien's site Better Myths, where he retells mythology and other popular tall tales using casual netspeak, as though he were recounting the story to you over Whatsapp or Line.

In the Classroom: As a class, identity the characteristics of a tall tale that are represented in Apples to Oregon: Being the (Slightly) True Narrative of How a Brave Pioneer Father Brought Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Grapes, and Cherries (and Children) across the Plains, by Deborah Hopkinson.

These visits, my naval experience, sailing my own yacht, and serving as one of the crew in a tall ship all inspired me to write A Fisher of Slaves, a tale of the Atlantic slave trade.

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.

Click here for Kindle Nation Daily link (Note from Stephen Windwalker: Longtime Kindle Nation readers may remember Jeff Belle as one of the first sponsors of Kindle Nation Daily way back in September 2010 with his debut novella, «Carlos The Impossible» — «a «Ferdinand» for grown - ups... a sort of love story: part tall tale, part sad, -LSB-...]

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.

This reviewer didn't find this to be the case as Preston's tale of how he, and then his family, started to climb tall trees serves as a bridge in the reader's mind - from reading about the wild exploits of a self - chosen few, to contemplating that climbing a tall tree could be an achievable ambition if one was so inclined (which this reviewer, who is getting sweaty feet just thinking about it, is not!)

Famed children's book illustrator Jules Feiffer, known for such favorites as I Lost My Bear and Bark, George, scales new heights with The Daddy Mountain, a tale of a small girl and her tall father.

in this original tall tale, as a pioneering papa moves his precious fruit trees and his family from Iowa to Oregon in the mid-nineteenth century.

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.

It started as a more or less straight horror story, based on legends and tall tales I heard growing up about Texas at the turn of the 20th Century.

This week the story criteria were as follows: 1,000 words Genre: Tall Tale Word: Resolved You can see the Blog Battle post with a... Continue reading →

Of all the stories, tall tales and misinformation that I have heard, one myth has proven significantly more prevalent than any other: «My lizard will only grow as big as his enclosure, right?»

Our Lodge functions as a clubhouse where guests mingle and swap tall travel tales over a great cup of coffee and sometimes a game of pool.

The landscape feels as though it comes out of a fairy tale, with gorgeous, lush rain forests, sandy beaches, and tall, beautiful mountains.

Mythical tales abound regarding the southern point which supposedly delivers an indo-esque left in the right conditions, or the reef in the center of the bay which is rumored in mega swells to hold surf as tall as the palm trees that line the shore.

Of course, those who believe in tall tales and folklore say Devil's Rock is named as such because underneath the rock lies treasure that's guarded by a devil - like evil spirit.

If you have ever wondered what the end of the world will look like, then hopefully it will be nothing like the tale told in Extinction: a story about the last member of an order formed to battle against mystical 100ft tall Orc beasts known as Raven» ii.

Twenty two years since the company rose to fame on the back of Donkey Kong Country — a similarly piratical game brimming with bananas, palm trees, and a pirate captain by the name of King K. Rool — the idea that Microsoft and Rare were themselves setting out atop their lovingly rendered sea, chasing tall tales and ghost stories of the developer's golden days as if they were some long - buried, magical treasure was heartbreakingly poetic.