Sentences with phrase «historical tales each tells»

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In the same way «once upon a time» tells us to expect a fairy tale and «here is the news» to expect a report on the day's significant activities, the «sui generis» approach to the gospels invited the expectation that we would learn about the early Church, not the life of a historical figure.

Nightjohn is a PG - 13 Disney movie, but it's also a full - blooded Charles Burnett film: family - friendly fare that doesn't shrink from showing slavery's horrors, an adolescent's coming - of - age tale told with an adult's sense of historical reality and moral complexity.

A glorious companion piece to Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained finds Quentin Tarantino once again using the vocabulary of exploitation movies, especially spaghetti Westerns, to tell a tale of revenge and vengeance rooted in a great historical injustice perpetrated against an oppressed minority.

This was a story about film pioneers and preservation, historical fiction utilizing remarkable facts about the life and careers of Georges Méliès to tell a moving, universal tale of a 1930s orphan living in Paris» main train station.

Robinson in Ruins, the latest film from British filmmaker Patrick Keiller, is an incredibly dense experimental documentary / cine - essay that tells a tale of the titular Robinson, recently released from prison and currently traveling through England photographing various landscapes while ruminating on a heady combination of historical, political, economic, agricultural, and architectural topics.

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Her new historical novel in verse, Stone Mirrors, tells the tale of Edmonia Lewis, a girl with an Ojibwe mother and a father from Haiti, who overcomes abuse and prejudice to become a world - class sculptor in the years following the Civil War.

A tale told through the eyes of Sallee and the answers she solicits from Ethel, Morony delivers a masterful narrative that is beguiling, flawlessly executed and proves a fine example of New Historical Fiction.

This type of book looks and history, makes minor or major changes in historical events, and tells a tale based upon the author's speculation about how these changes would play out over time.

A must - visit of any trip to Johannesburg, Constitution Hill explores the freedom South Africa celebrates today by telling the tale of South Africa's historical struggle.

Volksrust boasts many famous historical battle sites ranging from Majuba Hill to Laing's Nek with tell - tale signs of the Boer War.

Source: Ka'anapali Historical Trail & History and Legends Tour, Pip Holo Ka'ao (A well told tale travels far and wide)

The critically acclaimed action RPG is set in a beautiful, yet tormented world inspired by various historical periods of Japan, and tells the tale of humanity's last stand for survival against powerful demons (Oni).

Samuel F. B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre telling a dynamic tale about art education, mentorship and practice, and learning from historical art.