Sentences with phrase «tale is told by»

In addition to prescient aspects of the paintings» subject matter, a tale is told by the stains, tears and waterlines that the canvases now contain.

In Gilgamesh, the tale is told by the aged Utnapishtam, who was chosen by the god Ea to survive the rising waters.

But a different tale is told by another class of minerals, fully mapped only recently: clays.

This sad tale is told by Giles Udy in Labour and the Gulag Russia and the Seduction of the British Left (Biteback).

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.

Not exact matches

There are and will continue to be death kick strategies and tell - tale signs of life; smaller more narrowly focused funds, deal - by - deal funds, and a focus on trendy categories like life sciences and alternative energy.

That a 15 - year - old girl would be targeted and shot by the Taliban, live to tell the tale and then continue to fight for the education of women in Pakistan is the kind of story that cuts through cultural and geographic boundaries.

The numbers tell the tale: According to our analysis of U.S. Census data, over the next 10 years, the 18 to 49 age segment is projected to grow by only 1 percent to about 137 million.

This weekend, over 100,000 new Coinbase accounts were opened, presumably by people who had an overzealous nephew at their Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday, telling tales of unbridled riches and the wholesale changing of the world that is most assuredly imminent thanks to crypto currency.

Written during the darkest days of Stalin's reign, it is a satirical take on the Soviet Union that uses a visit by the Devil as a literary vehicle to tell the tale.

Whereas in some countries rape victims are left behind to tell the tale, in others, such as Iraq, they are systematically sold into sex slavery by their captors.

Of course you can be proven wrong... your holy book was written by man, no god involved; thus your belief is based on the fairy tales told by men who saw a gullible fool a mile away - see, how easy that is??? As for the actual number being only 1.6 billion, sorry the stats say different and your opinion on who the actual number includes is moot.

When finally confronted with the truth, groupthink becomes fiercely defensive because there's been too much investment of time / energy to risk a demoralizing tale told by a long - gone outsider.

Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale by Frederick Buechner:: Buechner is another perennial favourite of mine but this one somehow escaped my notice for many a year.

By executing murderers, we are trying to tell a different story: a story with poetic closure, a tale of punishment that fits the crime.

I do not mean by this that the gospel is merely a «fairy - tale,» although it is, of course, true that such tales are often told in language of that kind.

Sure, some Christians «think for themselves» but, at least in some small degree, they rely on poems and fairy tales and, critically, what they are told by others are the «rules», to guide their behavior.

Keep in mind that the New Testament of the Bible was written decades after Jesus supposedly died, by people who never met Jesus and relied on tales told from one generation to the next.

Believing in a system that was created by stone age men sitting around a fire telling fairy tales to scare kids and keep people in line, that was propagated by men who learned to write, and that was based on making a class of «preists» and holy men that could get money for doing nothing and that could dictate how olthers should live and molest boys and girls is stupid.

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.

One does not fear sinning against charity by suggesting that many of these extravaganzas (in which the international ruling class cavorts, off - hours, in the sybaritic style to which it has become accustomed) are, in the Bard's familiar words, «a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.»

Oh and additionally... you need to study REAL history concerning the crusades because the notion of converting Muslims to our faith by the sword is nothing but a fairy tale told by revisionist historians who desire to create a history that meets their agendas rather than report truthfully.

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction... Continue Reading»

And, as might befit a teenaged church, Bigelow Methodist is described in the fairy tale of Briar Rose, here told by the brothers Grimm, translated by Francis Magoun and Alexander Knappe:

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The opposition to the correspondence theory of truth has been the opposition to the idea that correspondence could be anything more than the most suitable tale, with suitability determined by the context in which it is told.

These tales had been preserved by the women as they gathered with their water bottles at the wells, by the men as they chatted around the campfires and as they told the stories of the great past to their young sons.

Human life is not «a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.»

That early apologists had to say that pagan stories were a pre-emptive strike by Satan (written in advance of, but oddly similar to the gospels) is one of many tell - tale signs of fables that should have been abandoned long ago.

By noon even the truest of true believers knew that they had been telling themselves a fairy tale.

The metaphor is the primordial closer of rifts; its dramatic promise is that unexpected and significant connections will continue to be possible, and its implied threat is that when we can no longer believe in that promise we will have to use another metaphor to express our loss of faith: something like Macbeth's «tale told by an idiot.»

Producers of literature, when they are not themselves wracked with doubts or preoccupied with taking a postmodern revenge on traditional expectations of order, speak out of a prescientific discipline of expectation — a school of faith that models the need to bracket with ironic reservation that information which, if not bracketed, would insist simplistically that life is only a bracket - defying tale told by an idiot.

When Macbeth in the well - known speech is forced to confront the shattering reversal of all his expectations, he sees life as a «brief candle,» a «walking shadow,» an actor «that struts and frets his hour upon the stage / And then is heard no more» and as «a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.»

This notion of a God that cares about individuals and humanity is a nonsense fairy tale told by people who can't accept not knowing why what we call «bad things» happen.

If spock went to church... his already intelligent, logical mind would tell him he didn't feel moved by a holy spirit or a god because it's all fairy tales made up to control others.

By a tale thus told, Peter Waldo was converted.

Now, we're asking Homo sapiens to crank up their interesting by telling a better version of the truth — adding that extra something to take their stories from dull to dazzling, whether it's in an Instagram post or a tale told over an ice - cold Dos with friends.»

This translates as the rather admirable «the prize and the cause of our labours,» a worthy sentiment that was, according to at least one tale told on a forum, at one accidental point debased by the club.

From outrunning a sprinter to jumping as high as cornerbacks and more, here are some tales told by those who have coached him and those who have played with him.

They tell somber tales of poles wrenched from their hands by giant dourado and listen politely but unconvinced when the advantage of the spinning reel's drag is explained and demonstrated.

Jack was nimble Jack was quick but now his ankle made him sit The crowd called out for another DM as the season flew away My Kingdom for a striker as the Gaffer told his tale I can make a silk purse from a sow's ear by casting pearls before wines and her face at first just ghostly turned a whiter shade of blue.

I know you are young as you have not learned to punctuate (and because you regard the Community Shield as an honour, which it is not; merely a glorified pre - season friendly, overhyped) and I say that not to chide your education but to show how astute people can tell things by reading clear tell tale signs, that other and often younger people can not.

Winfield adds that with Al Frohman dead, it's easy for people to invent tales supposedly told to them by Frohman.

magazine told the tale of the unfortunate goalkeeper of Finnish Second Division side KIF Helsinki (later known as Kiffen Helsinki) who was attacked by a home fan during an encounter away to Puotila.

To tell the tale, I start with my first birth: Our son, Lev, was born in a hospital by c - section.

The half hour animated film based on the much - loved children's picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler is a beautiful portrayal of the book telling the tale of the happy go lucky father's epic journey across the seasons to make it home in time for Christmas.

What continues to be lost, in my view, in much of what the media has reported over the last six years about the results of autopsies conducted by researchers at the Sports Legacy Institute in Boston on the brains of athletes - autopsies which show the presence of the dark splotches of tau protein which are the tell - tale sign of CTE - which is that they provide, at most, anecdotal evidence suggesting a possible connection.

The story line itself, which sounds like a stream of consciousness tale told by a 3 - year - old, is about some businessmen who get an electric jolt from a telephone they have invented and then are saved by a team of doctors.

Meanwhile, Russia fuels every conspiracy theory it can find, insisting the attack was conducted by the UK itself and churning out a constant stream of disinformation, combined with the tell - tale sign of mocking sarcasm.

It tells the tale of an Onondaga County man who the card said was «brutally» beaten by the police and wrongfully charged with possessing a weapon.