Sentences with phrase «tall tales about»

(Note that the Joker is a sailor — the one who usually tells tall tales about what he's seen at sea.)

At that very moment, the tall tales about PC being inferior stopped.

Whilst many other travellers are hanging around in traveller bars telling tall tales about how they like to go places where travellers don't, we are there, taking shots and doing more for the local economy by making the odd contribution to locals for taking their pictures.

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.

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Chad Point is, people tend to tell tall tales about famous people.

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 Jews.

Tall tales about the lucky investor who hit it big with a stock idea may be entertaining.

Except that all is not what it seems, and Jamie's amazing find turns out to have been reverse - engineered; I imagine that Baumbach is thinking here of the controversy around the suspiciously convenient Catfish, a tall tale about tall tales.

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.

He's won a Pura Belpr Award for Illustration for Doa Flor: A Tall Tale About A Giant Woman With A Great Big Heart by Pat Mora, and has been awarded a Silver and Gold medal from The Society of Illustrators.

Funny that the progressivist slanderer doesn't provide a link for his tall tale about Palin; is that your scientific rigor at work, troll?

The story begins with a tall tale about your smartphone and the ugly impact of mining on a picturesque landscape.

Many sellers want the best selling Realtor (possibly the one who will tell the tallest tales about one's listing?)

Not exact matches

Based on this tall tale when Jesus died the «saints» arose from the dead but stayed put at their graves until about 45 hours later when Jesus came back to life and came out of his tomb.

How does that make you feel about the «perfect» god that is supposedly behind those bible tall tales of yours?

But I'm not just telling you tall tales over here, gloating about this great new cookbook that I have and you don't.

She likes talking with her parents and friends and will talk about «tall tales.»

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.

You may be tempted to exaggerate or tell a few tall tales but think about how you'd react if the situation were reversed.

This tall - tale New York comedy about a florist and a book dealer who become a prostitute and a pimp is so wispy that it's hit or miss and overlong at 90 minutes.

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.

An oneiric swirl of fever dreams, half - remembered childhood terrors, forgotten silent cinema, and tall tales, Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson's film can only be written about with metaphors and abstractions.

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.

What's weird about this animated adventure is how it goes out of its way during the closing credits to authenticate the tall tale via archival photos of the decorated pooch and the soldier who purportedly adopted him.

If Prairie's story about being an angel was all just a tall tale, what during her seven - year disappearance cured her blindness?

In this literary text by Judi Barrett, Grandpa relives a tall - tale about a town where food falls from the sky.

Despite the fact that over 2.5 million children are served by over 6,500 charter schools across the country, the majority of Americans have been swayed by tall tales and misinformation about the role of charter schools in our public education system.

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.

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!)

But come to think of it, that must» a been his name, because even though I think he was part of a tall tale, he was just a child and a child don't know how to lie about his name.»

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.

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.

When I ask how Bannon even found SCL, Wylie tells me what sounds like a tall tale, though it's one he can back up with an email about how Mark Block, a veteran Republican strategist, happened to sit next to a cyberwarfare expert for the US air force on a plane.