Sentences with phrase «with tall tales»

A darkly fascinating aspect of Crockett's legacy is the «Crockett almanacs,» books similar to a farmer's almanac that combined practical information with tall tales.

Don't miss this monument to the great man which brims with tall tales and hot insights.

When you chat with the animals on this day, they will do their best to try to fool you with tall tales and a variety of pranks and tricks.

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

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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.

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

the entire christian doctrine is a tale grown taller with the retelling.

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.

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.

Jameson continues its creative collaboration with TBWA \ Chiat \ Day New York and internationally acclaimed director Noam Murro, bringing to life the next tall tale surrounding brand founder John Jameson and his passion for his great tasting whiskey.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

With a quickly solidifying theory of mind, her kid will wise up to her mom's tall tale, if she hasn't already.

And the tall tales of traveling the globe that once had everyone rolling on the floor with laughter.

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.

Tinder has been saddled with the reputation that its users are only out for sex - and aren't doing it safely - since its earliest days, but the survey proves that too is a tall tale.

Tales of Berseria is proof that with a more thoughtful approach to design, the series still has what it takes to stand tall among its RPG contemporaries.

The king of exaggeration, undermanaging expectations, fibs and tall tales, generally everything that comes out of the «Kick - Ass» creator's mouth must be taken with a ocean - sized block of salt, so we were shocked to hear that «Kick Ass 2,» was not only actually moving forward, the sequel was actually shooting at the end of this summer (though now it appears to be an early fall shoot).

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.

It is the cinematic equivalent of a folk tale, charged with superstition, folk medicine, tall tales, wakes, ribald dialogue, holy fools, anthropomorphism, local costume, and pagan energies.

The no - nonsense journalist William can't connect with his father, who has spent his life telling tall tales of his youthful exploits.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Employing sleight of hand, some fast talking, and a lot of tall tales, it exaggerates the legend until the illusion takes on a life of its own, turning into the promised «fever dream» that, while admittedly stuffed with some truly excellent musical setpieces, has something sinister at its core.

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).

Besides the standard box sets, there will be a monster 11 - Disc set collecting the two Cars films, along with all of the Mater's Tall Tales shorts.

A triumph of small - scale, regional pulp, Bernie plays like a Texas tall tale with a weirdly warm heart — it's a pepper - flecked chili con carne of Americana.

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.

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.

The tale is carried thoughtfully forward with intellect, poetry, and pithy insight... You can walk away touched by feelings, motivated toward compassion, engaged to face fears... a tall order, but well within range of this film... The Sensation of Sight carries tremendous audience appeal.»

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.

For Scheherazade, stories are a matter of life and death; Gomes similarly balances the leisurely art of the tall tale with the deadline urgency of the project.

In an instant, they were transformed into 10 - foot - tall giants with booming voices, ferocious features, and massive movable hands, bringing the characters from Roald Dahl's classic tale — Bloodbottler, Childchewer, and of course the Big Friendly Giant himself — suddenly to life.

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-...]

Tall tales, straight - out lies and hoaxes are themes that run through Carey's novels, along with a tendency to mix fact and fantasy.

But when the boy disappears, the villagers are faced with the possibility that one of his tall tales might have been true.

The latest novel from the author of Rocket Boys is a tall tale that's loosely based on the life of his own parents, Homer and Elsie, who travel from their home in West Virginia to Florida with an alligator in tow — the titular Albert.

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.

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.

Written in poetic language and saturated with the flavors, smells, and folkways of America's southwest, this captivating tall tale brings life to an engaging, original character, whose love and concern for her neighbors fills the story with joy.