Sentences with phrase «in tall tales»

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.

This is the Tarantino who isn't afraid to bring the action to a full halt and luxuriate in tall tales that take their sweet time getting to the point.

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

Conversely, to believe in the tall tales of the bible isn't humility.

In this tall tale story, deadbeat Shorty Long has to avoid the people to whom he owes money.

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In between the brags and tall tales of his glorious youth, the subtext of his story reads a little different: «I don't know why, but I didn't stick with it.

event in Toronto on Apr. 24 to discuss the importance of bold, timeless design, hard work and other important details in his presentation entitled «Tall Tales from a Large Man.»

Some dumb flucks in a desert region wrote a bunch of tall tales, and some English guy with a big vocabulary translated them for ships and grins, and you all spend every weekend clubbing with and herking off to this silly book.

Why can't we believe in scientific fact instead of a tall tale?

The gang of boys I used to hang out with in Southwest Washington traded tall tales of places where white people did evil things to us, mostly in the South, where none of us had ever lived, nor wanted to.

Zealous prosecutors claimed to be stamping out an epidemic of abuse, child - abuse experts coached and coerced young children to tell tall tales, psychologists peddled fantastic theories to juries, and judges caved in to pressures to «protect the children.»

In fact, there's absolutely no more evidence to suggest that the story is true than there is in support of any of the Arab world's conspiracy theories and tall tales about JewIn fact, there's absolutely no more evidence to suggest that the story is true than there is in support of any of the Arab world's conspiracy theories and tall tales about Jewin support of any of the Arab world's conspiracy theories and tall tales about Jews.

I've been looking for proof since I was six when my parents put into church and told me to believe in all these religious tall tales.

The folks living in the Roman Empire were not above telling tall tales.

We were there right around golden hour and I felt like I was in a fairy tale — the water was clear and refreshing, with sunrays streaming through the surrounding tall trees.

Grandpa was born in the Southwest in 1901 and he loved to tell tall tales of how he'd been a cowboy in his younger days.

The family - owned and operated AAA Four Diamond waterfront inn in historic Old Saybrook, Connecticut has recently opened two new Luxury Guesthouses, Three Stories and Tall Tales, both of which are high - end accommodations providing a unique space for smaller groups on the picturesque shores of the Long Island Sound and the Connecticut River.

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.

Your kids already know how to tell some pretty tall tales, butthis game redirects their creativity in a more positive direction.Roll the dice and then come up with a story that connects the nineimages.

We never found any sign of that duck though there is still a tall tale told that she lives in the wild of the woods on our property.

This article has been repeatedly referenced by supporters of the apparently tall tale, although if you look at the language in here it is actually a little vague.

i guess the only people interested in listening to Mr. 9 -1-1 are southerners, prob» ly the last group buying the tall tales he tells.

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...

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.

Nine years ago, a Brazilian student in the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, where I used to lecture, came to me with what I initially took to be a tall tale.

The incident is reminiscent of a widely reported story in 2009 that a similar power cut at the LHC was caused by a bird dropping a piece of baguette on a substation, but Marsollier says that was a tall tale.

In spite of an abundance of tall tales, drum talk is a reality.

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

You'll be amazed at the tall tales we've been told in the name of «healthy eating.»

Being single in the city can be tough, and we've all had our fair share of bad dates — but these New Yorkers» tall tales of dates and hookups go Juney has dated more than 200 men (Image: Real Life Story Agency) «To be clear dating 250 plus men doesn't mean I have slept with them all.

Avoid tall tales in your dating profile, keep things grounded and focused.

He did several suspense films, including Johnny Allegro and Dangerous Profession, but it was his work on The Window that earned Tetzlaff a permanent place in the memories of filmgoers — a dark, chilling, and suspenseful thriller, based on the fable of the boy - who - cried - wolf, this film, about a young boy (Bobby Driscoll) known for telling tall tales, who witnesses a murder in his tenement building and can't get anyone to believe him, was an instant hit.

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.

Mixing droll animation, stock footage and a restrained number of talking head interviews, the director Penny Lane's biography has all the whimsy of a tall tale, until a late change in tone surprises with genuine emotion.

I suspect that this tall tale belongs in the latter category.

You'll discover a whole new version of the old fairytale in this Hallmark made - for - TV movie where the tall tale comes to life after an enormous skeleton is unearthed at the family estate of a wealthy businessman whose first name is Jack — of course!

Woody Allen returns to London for a sprawling morality tale in You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger.

Official Synopsis: «Since it's release in 1979, director Don Coscarelli's epic tale of The Tall Man, his deadly Sentinel Spheres, and the group of small town friends who must band together to stop his evil dimension - hopping schemes has captivated and terrifi... [Read More]

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.

Time Travel Mater (2012)(6:23) Sort of a stretch being included here, this Mater's Tall Tales premiered on TV in June.

In recent years, though, the list of Pixar shorts has grown with entries from the Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales and Toy Story Toons series complementing their more award - minded original theatrical efforts and the now - standard home video shorts.

«Since it's release in 1979, director Don Coscarelli's epic tale of The Tall Man, his deadly Sentinel Spheres, and the group of small town friends who must band together to stop his evil dimension - hopping schemes has captivated and terrified horror and sci - fi fans around the world.

Though Emma Thompson's Queen may be diminutive in stature, she is definitely in control of the Kingdom, with Fergus relying on his humour and tall tales to appear of any worth.

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.

But a pivotal scene after dinner where Arkin's daughter pleads with him to lay off Falk and his suspicions, and embrace the soon - to - be father in - law is the impetus to allow Arkin the «room» to bite off the taller tales and the willingness to extend the olive branch to Falk under the most ridiculous circumstances.

It's all in service of a tall tale being told by an ancient Indian (Johnny Depp) who may or may not be Tonto, a sideshow attraction who spins this yarn to a little boy (Mason Cook) wearing a Lone Ranger get - up in a fair in 1930s San Francisco.

is the young Han Solo in this origin tale, suggesting not so much a young, tall and hunky Harrison Ford but a young, short, grinning - until - his - yes - squint - shut Jon Cryer or Ethan Embry.

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).

If you have Netflix, check out Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales and watch «Air Mater» which takes place in Propwash Junction and includes Skipper voiced by Stacy Keach.

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.