| After decades of being considered bad form, tales of imperial derring-do are making something of a comeback. |
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| Their salon is in the space that was once the Spanish Kitchen, the site of one of Los Angeles' great and enduring tales of mystery and intrigue. |
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| I am not given to flights of fancy, soppy tales of love and romance and I was certainly not looking for love. |
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| Bristling with wit and invention, these tales are full of hair-brained schemes, hair-raising moments, and incredibly close shaves. |
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| There were heart-wrenching tales from families whose innocent lives he had ruined and scarred forever. |
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| What about those tales where the whole ship falls sick with some incurable disease? |
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| His tales aren't rhythmic and quiet narrations, but explosive stories of passion and elan. |
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| Fairy tales were deployed by Wildeans to express same-sex desire in a thickly coded array of tropes. |
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| Using these images, she intermingles tales of the past with stories from residents now living in the area. |
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| My love of the UK has a lot to do with being raised on British fairy tales and the lowland Scots lilt in my grandmother's voice. |
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| How he handles the tabloid tales and maintains a higher sense of purpose could be his key to a happy and fulfilled life. |
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| Beer, spare parts and tales of the day's adventures are enthusiastically shared while everybody mucks in with repairs. |
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| The closeness of being in a packed car allows the trio the chance to swap stories and the lads to fabricate tales of bravado. |
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| Despite tales of Teds slashing cinema seats, most people would accept that the level of youth crime is far higher now than it was then. |
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| Visions of rude, fast-talking, brash Yankees flashed briefly through my adolescent mind from tales overheard from relatives. |
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| They devoted page upon page, day after day, to tales of mass murders, common graves, summary executions, and war crimes. |
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| Travellers' tales of upset stomachs are all too common in this part of the world for those foolish enough to risk salads or the local water. |
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| On reading this Karen story of a giantess, I was struck by how similar it is in structure and function to certain Korean tales which I have read. |
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| Early Indonesian literature consisted largely of local folk tales and traditional religious stories. |
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| While I'm on a rollercoaster tip I think I'll bore you with tales of riding one of the greatest wooden big dippers in the world. |
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| This is about to lapse into various other tales but they are all somehow relevant, do not adjust your set. |
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| From nature to human tragedies, the photographs tell tales reams of paper cannot. |
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| Princesses with golden curls, a raven mane or shiny red tresses having adventures are what fairy tales are all about. |
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| Despite its official backing the book pulls no punches and includes tales of the singer's bullying and bad behaviour. |
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| She turns to a mysterious woman named Mary who tells exotic tales and teaches Tessa to read. |
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| Americans love success stories, especially tales of underdogs who overcome all odds to achieve success by their own efforts. |
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| What renders these tales of same-sex love almost unbearably poignant is their constant battle to be retrieved. |
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| Unfortunately, this week you're especially liable to interpret well-meant advice, cautionary tales or even offers of aid as undesired meddling. |
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| In traditional storytelling, trickster tales are often greeted with laughter. |
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| One still hears tales of settlers who cleared the bush while reciting Shakespeare and Shelley by heart. |
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| I fell in love with one of the girls as she told me tales of her paradisal childhood as the gardener's daughter in a castle in East Prussia. |
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| Ghosts, monsters, fairies, UFOs and tales of all things supernatural are wanted for a new book on the subject. |
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| If dominant stories tell tales that force everyone into one mold or belief, then counterstories are all those stories that don't fit the mold. |
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| Can she melt her tyrant husband's cold heart with her tales of treasures, monsters, genies, magic and romance and create a true story of her own? |
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| Gathered by journalists avid for war copy, the audience of the tales was vastly expanded by an uncritical press. |
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| Sometimes he would tell gruesome tales about medical procedures practiced in the jungle brush. |
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| His new takes on the classic tales made us laugh out loud at more than one bedtime. |
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| Join two of Ireland's finest storytellers recounting humorous and melancholy tales of Celtic Ireland. |
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| I have managed to unearth yet more weird and almost unbelievable tales from this strange civilisation. |
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| The other angle I read into this is that of the child-abduction by goblins and fairies in the tales of yore and of today. |
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| Despite all the heroic deeds in tales and sagas, a grown man would have seen a major conflict about once every twenty years. |
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| Given the nature of the protagonists, it was hard to believe the tales of a torrid, adulterous affair were true. |
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| Not only does Hurston allow rural Black Floridians to tell their own folktales, but she presents their tales in Black vernacular speech. |
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| A local guide will lead the way, entertaining them with tales of folklore and mystery associated with the area. |
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| There was the prospect of drug tales and gossip from the demimonde to impeach his credibility. |
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| There were also tales of people commissioning numerous surveys only to be outbid again and again. |
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| Only there is a slight reek of hypocrisy in the old tales of Oxonian elitism. |
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| The Kashubian tales again would naturally be pressed into the service of the surrounding Germans. |
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| We may assuredly presume that she would have written a greater body of overtly weird tales had she been allowed the editorial freedom. |
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| There are plenty of human-interest stories and recipes, plus the obligatory tales of gobblers that encounter or evade the guillotine. |
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| In particular, I argue that the mirrored characters parallel the structure of folk and fairy tales in their subversive potential. |
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| More recently, it is primarily sword and sorcery that has grabbed our attention, and hyper-realist tales of cybernetic intrigue. |
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| Tellers of good tales rather tend to hyperbolize the details in order to make the story just a bit better. |
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| He realized that not all the tales of the man's drinking and womanizing achievements were the product of jealous or envious rumour-mongers. |
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| The Jataka tales have much educational value and were used to teach youngsters the important morals and goals of life. |
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| They mate for life, although tales of them pining away after the loss of a mate have not been proven. |
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| Sea-kayak around uninhabited islands and hike desert arroyos, then spend evenings swapping expedition tales with Messner and Kane. |
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| Robert and Kitty are deputizing Isaac to sling some mud at the man telling tales on Robert, and stop the story from spreading. |
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| Many of these accounts were embellished, and some of the more lurid tales were pure fabrications. |
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| What surprised me most of all was her book extract, with tales of her horrific childhood. |
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| It can't be any worse than any of the tales of mirth and woe I've got lined up. |
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| Some might say that these tales of celebrity heroism might be the product of hyper-imaginative publicists. |
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| Their reasons for emigrating in the first place were mostly economic and the tales of fortunes to be made abroad spurred them on. |
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| In merciful contrast tender tales of sun-drenched small town reverie restore some hope. |
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| Maid Marion is not part of the original tales and likely comes from French pastourelles where she was associated with a shepherd Robin. |
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| It's true, and there are tons of similarly gossipy tales of women's sexual peccadilloes and the embarrassments of ambition. |
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| Offering students the opportunity to compare a picture book with a teen novel allows us to review familiar tales with students. |
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| The pay and fringe benefits will be few, but at least intrepid plumbers and joiners will have tales to tell their grandchildren. |
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| As countless tales have told us, it's always a bad idea to mess around with the past. |
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| He speculates about the personal stories of strangers in bars and offers up tales of his childhood with the ease of a trusted friend. |
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| Tall tales were woven around the 1830 Revolution, notably to the effect that the landed aristocracy had been elbowed aside by bourgeois groups. |
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| New research, published yesterday, suggests children's love of contemporary fiction means classic tales are being left on the shelves. |
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| They knew interesting tales about when my parents were naughty children and they could identify the faded figures in family photographs. |
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| Here are microcultural tales of pirates and robbers, blanket fairs, curtain lectures and night-kings. |
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| Her unsisterly sharpness to her youngest sister Amy, for example, causes Amy to burn the volume of tales she had been working on. |
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| I've heard whispered tales of how ridiculous and awesome this movie is, but haven't seen it yet. |
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| We are regaled with tales of peregrines hovering over the groundlings at the Globe theatre, peregrines nesting atop the Battersea Power Station. |
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| Answers to your questions may come in the form of lies, tall tales and unverifiable information. |
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| Richard adds to the enchantment of these tales with the rhythms of his mountain dulcimer and conga drum. |
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| Visitors can hire an audio tape recalling tales of the servants who have served at Harewood. |
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| It will tell tales of frontier gunfights, buffalo hunts, Indian fights, trail drives, and stagecoaches. |
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| The show offers a refreshing antidote to the sickly-sweet moral tales so often associated with children's TV and is all the better for it. |
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| He was the technical services engineer for a bitumen company, delighting in tales of tarry deposits and exploding tankers. |
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| I was brought up on tales of Brits exploring the world and this has always inspired me. |
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| To Web surfers, he came off as a quick-witted scribe who kept readers amused with tales of high-altitude nuttiness. |
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| The most marvelous tales of weeping and woe are preached in poetic extreme. |
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| Bears wake from their long hibernation, now, hirsute initiates with tales to tell to those with ears to listen. |
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| Surely their fate carries with it lurid tales of hedonism and excessive violence? |
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| He was a horrible gossip, and his tales shifted from fact to fancy in the space of a minute. |
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| In fact, he has been telling tall tales for a long time to his children, inflating events in his own life to mythic proportions. |
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| A succession of books followed, mostly easy readers that told tales of the Revolutionary War through colorful pictures and monosyllabic words. |
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| There were tales of high-top sneakers and traveling in coach cars and all-night card games. |
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| The music business is full to overflowing with tales of artists who have had their fingers burned by the big industry players. |
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| Maurice, seeing the slave's light skin did not flinch, he had seen and heard tales of white slaves. |
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| Tabloid newspapers have always printed tawdry tales of public figures' peccadilloes, but it hasn't dominated discussion in the same way. |
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| Yet the seemingly endless flow of aid continues while we hear tales of donor fatigue. |
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| The claim that ground beef is a biohazard is bolstered with frightening tales of E. coli. |
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| It is the hour spoken of most often in fairy tales and ballads and song, where almost anything is possible. |
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| Be it popular culture, travel tales or mostly random observations, Sidin's brand of humour is immensely popular among bloggers and tweeters. |
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| Often concerned with kingship, dynastic conflicts, and battles, these tales are sometimes also referred to as the king cycle. |
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| He would tell them epic tales of noble knights, paladins, warriors, and samurai. |
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| The Bill and Ben stories were invented by their older sister Hilda, as tales to keep the twin boys amused whilst they had their bath. |
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| All the courageous deeds and tales of chivalry that they had so eagerly talked about were so far away now, like a faint memory just out of reach. |
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| Alchemists, the tales go, sought to use a magical philosopher's stone to transmute lead into gold. |
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| Such old wives' tales as the caps of edible fungi peeling easily, or brightly coloured fungi being poisonous, cannot be relied upon. |
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| The more directly Andersen's tales draw on his own emotional vulnerabilities or satirize his contemporaries, the more powerful they are. |
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| She remembered her father telling her tales of pirates marooning their captains and awful things of that sort. |
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| It's not as outlandish or as hilarious as many of tales of his boffo corruption. |
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| The tales mix magic with moments that are both funny and scary, steering clear of the sickly-sweet stories we have been fed for years. |
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| Despite the interesting tales of business travel and outdoorsy getaways, I didn't stay long. |
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| History is sprinkled with tales of the exploits, achievements and leadership of young adults, even teenagers. |
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| They hear scary tales about sniffing glue, popping pills and shooting heroin. |
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| As I read, the writer elaborated on the material with heartbreaking tales of his family life. |
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| While there was plenty of enjoyment on the trip there was also plenty of hardship and tales of aching legs and other parts of the anatomy. |
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| Also, being a doubting Thomas, I wanted to verify those tall tales of the Alaskan winter and to disprove the rumor of the Alaskan qualification. |
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| I laughed myself silly over her comparison of children to terrorists, and her tales of her domineering, movie star mother. |
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| These tales were set in different eras ranging from Arthurian times to the Crusades, in Carthage, the Boer War and in Australia. |
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| The book is full of invented tales and wild exaggerations of documented events. |
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| In older books I found tales of desert caravans, raids by Bedouin clans, near starvation, and hard-won spiritual enlightenment. |
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| Ludwig had first been introduced to ancient Germanic tales by his governess and later became obsessed with the dark stories. |
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| Hearsay, anecdote and tall tales says that it is possible, that this is just words until it happens to you. |
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| Some stories are much too good to be true, tales so full of emotion and pathos that they compel a journalist to step back and reconsider. |
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| Ghost stories, tales of the supernatural and horror films all scare us via confrontation with the unknown. |
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| Each merchant's tales of how the scarabs came from the tomb of Tutankhamun grew less and less likely with every member of the caravan. |
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| The Brooklyn-based half-Asian MC and turntablist relates tales from a changing New York City with intelligence, humour and honesty. |
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| It would be easier to focus on tales of high-tech Scottish wizardry or financial shenanigans instead. |
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| Does the creator of these twisted tales inhabit dank, cobwebby rooms with dusty velvet curtains and candles everywhere? |
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| Our digestions coped admirably and thus you will have no tales concerning toilets, bushes, and Delhi Belly. |
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| Conjure descends from West African vodun and appears in these tales as a natural religion that has taken root in the American Southern landscape. |
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| However, I've heard of fish much bigger and I have no reason to doubt the tales whatsoever. |
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| He's a very reserved young man, so people talk and they invent funny tales about him. |
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| He entertained guests at the official luncheon with humorous tales during his time as editor. |
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| The book does have a dark edge, exposing the shady business deals, tales of payola, and personal dramas. |
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| It put a face to the voice, so often heard on local radio telling waggish tales of country life. |
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| Few had ever seen her, though tales of her strength, her beauty and her generous gifts spread far and wide. |
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| Many Western readers deny that there are any such tales of indigenous African provenance. |
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| This has it all, a peculiar confection of tall tales and reality blended together in a strange and moving way. |
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| His traditional roots show as he weaves tales from life as it was for Canada's early settlers, hunters, fishers, explorers and adventurers. |
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| He would regale us of tales about the rich and famous, their peculiar ways and their strange vices. |
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| It is precisely with this sense of anticipation that I picked up this book of Dogri folk tales and I was not disappointed. |
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| During a Halloween party, the Simpsons tell three horrifying tales of the macabre. |
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| His tales involve a rogue's gallery of European freebooters with names like John Blackthorne, Ian Dunross, and Tab Thumpchest. |
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| Out of the wreckage of war sometimes come uplifting tales of the indomitable human spirit. |
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| Shakespearean tales of love as sacrifice, conquest or unrequited passion are beyond reason. |
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| But his father also had a fascination with gold, and he grew up hearing tales of miners, prospectors, and grubstakes at the dinner table. |
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| In the Middle Ages, wildly anachronistic tales of his exploits in Rome were in circulation. |
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| On the downside, this dependency on biography and history means that sometimes the tales do not stand in their own right. |
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| The current owner often tells tales of her mother, who opened the bar, making her own moonshine and beer. |
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| From the late Middle Ages onwards, one plot in particular dominated these tales in Europe. |
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| The other development was the gathering of Haggadic legends and tales into comprehensive, systematic compendiums. |
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| But despite these varying degrees of success, the three twisted tales meld together smoothly, forming one perfectly disturbing anthology. |
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| Many tales of Harrison's heroism and bravery under fire were retold by veterans. |
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| Other tale-tellers repeated tales identical to Perrault's text word for word. |
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| The two of them quickly pair off and start swapping sexual secrets and tales of past lovers. |
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| Though they total no more than about 35,000 words, his 12 mordant tales are little aerial masterpieces about social change, aging and divorce. |
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| Throughout the album, Dead Prez move from bitter reportage, recounting tales of poverty and desperation, to impassioned calls to action. |
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| The tales of rape, humiliation, physical and mental torture pour out until you want to cover your eyes and stop your ears. |
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| It was a happy coincidence that Brecht's theory of alienation was inspired by folk tales and folk theatre, which relied a lot on story-telling. |
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| Forget about those tales of huge tubs filled with ice cold beer served by doe-eyed barmaids just quivering to hear your band. |
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| The story is inspired by the true tales of puppeteers and entertainers in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. |
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| Dylan drops her home then writes a story about how much he hates fairy tales and that no one lives happily ever after. |
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| This is just one of the many fascinating tales which are told and re-told wherever metallurgists foregather. |
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| He's set horrific tales of drug overdoses, chainsaw murders and matricide to a jubilant beat. |
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| Imagine how many more fascinating tales are contained within the walls of the old-age institutions! |
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| Likewise the use of animals as human stand-ins turns the tales into Aesop-like fables with a modern, existential twist. |
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| Tall tales were spelled aplenty amongst the old sea dogs during their retiring years. |
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| Again Ridge instantly screamed out breathless tales of a terrorist wolf, while the media slobbered at the door. |
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| They travelled from near and far to join in the celebrations with many swapping tales and yarns of growing up in the area. |
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| But even though the college has left its grisly past behind, it's hard to dissociate it from the macabre tales of its early beginnings. |
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| While this may have been so at point of entry, they have certainly matured into storytellers, weaving tales with a sense of theatre. |
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| We're chronicling the stories, the tales and adventures of every beatboxer around the world. |
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| Suitable subjects for booger tales are numerous Louisiana swamp and bayou terrors, many of them the products of Cajun folklore. |
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| This has nothing to do with biblical tales for tinies, but is the name of a weekly street party that can be heard by ships far out to sea. |
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| Now, I'm sure some of you with a more sceptical nature might find my tales of invisible derring-do a little hard to believe. |
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| And everyone seems ever more determined to expose themselves, transforming titillating tales into their fifteen minutes of TV-chatter fame. |
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| Change the cut of her gown a little, and she could have been a wood nymph of the tales of old. |
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| Then he tells her of his wild tales of the savage barbarian Conan, and she sees the fire in his eyes. |
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| Can unlinked tales with recurrent names or places as motifs form a coherent whole between covers? |
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| I'm not a specialist in ancient mythology but like most lovers of history I enjoy seeing the vast and great tales of the past brought to life. |
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| The tales were known long before the extant ballad versions began to be copied or printed in the mid-fifteenth century. |
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| Their sensitive and delicate portrayal of tales is so real and touching that they have become the hallmark of Iranian cinema in the recent past. |
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| I've been slightly immersed in European and Asian cinema recently, and there are some cracking tales out there. |
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| Arab Americans who came forward to testify at the hearing told equally harrowing tales of harassment. |
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| Traveling minstrels serenaded their clients with bawdy or heroic tales set to music. |
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| Vaughn cracks many jokes, but the bulk of the commentary is devoted to stories and behind-the-scenes tales of the film. |
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| As the evening progressed, the accordion player moved on from more traditional tales of woe to sing the theme tune from Love Story in Finnish. |
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| Novels of alienation and misery are common currency, tales of abuse, violence and desertion are run-of-the-mill stuff for British fiction. |
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| The cockney beefeaters told the same gory tales of beheading at Tower Hill. |
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| In West Africa, didactic tales and tales of magic with moral endings are very popular. |
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| And that was a big surprise to many people who expected Russia Today to go and tell all the fairy tales about Russia to the world. |
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| By no means, though, should you assume that he simply churns out tales like an automaton working from a template. |
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| And I still will do this, because scallywags and tellers of tall tales though some of 'em may be, them's my buddies. |
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| There are those tales too of a somewhat grimmer nature concerning the use of humour to palliate the horrors of war. |
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| Others recounted tales of the privations caused by the blockade and the makeshifts necessitated by them. |
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| In the 13 th century, French troubadours wrote love-thwarted tales in a poetry-prose mix. |
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| The story of their descent is reminiscent of tales of trench warfare from the Great War. |
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| Thoroughly unsophisticated, they are ready victims for any retailers of fairy tales who come along. |
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| Already, there were tales last week of German beef being cut up in Ireland and repackaged for the supermarket shelves of this sceptred isle. |
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| Was this crucial mid-Atlantic tie worthy of a mention en route amid tales of kings and queens? |
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| He was an ethnologist and he recorded all of these songs and tales of the Passamaquoddy Indians. |
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| Fascinating tales of Romeo and Juliet were among Mr David's favorite pieces of Shakespeare's works. |
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| Jason Gardener is regaling me with tales of an invite to Buckingham Palace and a chinwag with the Queen. |
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| The discomfort from having to stand so purposelessly on the street corner has them doubly animate in recounting tales and goss. |
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| He was in the depths of despair following allegations of rape and sexual assault and tabloid tales of cocaine abuse. |
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| Feiffer's hardcover, a collection of superhero tales from comic books' Golden Age was unique in its day. |
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| He returned home with shrapnel wounds and tales of fighting U.S. military might with a rifle. |
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| They even visit Canterbury on their way, but the tales they tell are the bitter-sweet flashbacks of memory, not episodes of instructive fiction. |
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| Improbable tales of true love overcoming desperate odds are a hallmark of Bollywood, the Indian film genre watched by millions worldwide. |
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| Bachmann weaves tales of anti-heroines, old drunks and people dousing themselves in gasoline into a strong collection of songs. |
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| Illustrated with a scattering of the author's own landscape oil paintings, the autobiographical tales display a love of the Great Outdoors. |
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| Arnold was spellbinding in convincing her that the tales were absurd, obvious lies. |
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| These tree-like creatures, agonizingly slow and covered with mossy bark, nursed themselves on tales of past glory while their numbers dwindled in their isolation. |
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| If these functions and actions lead to a definite end, making folktales uniform and identifiable, the characters and their attributes change, making the tales multiform. |
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| The first level consists of tales that circulated primarily in unassimilated band and tribal societies, though the tales may have only been written down after assimilation. |
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| There are many old wives' tales that have no basis in the law. |
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| And many might like to hear tales of the political classes decamping to the seaside for a week of fervent backstabbing, orgiastic networking and roaring drunkenness. |
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| The tales are sometimes dryly humorous, but often just heart-breaking. |
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| The popularity of anime tales featuring man-on-man passion is burgeoning among Japanese women. |
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| If one extends this observation further, one discovers that whereas all the tales explored earlier present a reasonably positive case for idiosyncracy and isolation. |
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| The tales are models of scientific realism, describing in hauntingly convincing detail what it is like to voyage through the vast, empty reaches of the solar system. |
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| They do that by telling great stories and tales from wherever they are. |
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| There are tales of UFOs and plutonium, veiled critiques of macho money-grabbing rap and more electronic bleeps than in a digital telephone exchange. |
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| He had heard tales of labyrinthine passages built into the walls of noble castles, and knew that the Princess must know a secret control to open his room into such a passage. |
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| The ballad form, which was most popular between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, often involved pastoral tales sung to the accompaniment of a lute or zither. |
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| The film wears all its anachronisms on its sleeve and evades any of the empty solemnity that is often associated with tales of love and sword fights. |
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| She shifts effortlessly from folk and blues to upbeat tangos and haunting instrumentals, all interspersed with humorous tales of her life on the road. |
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| Early tales of apprenticeships to magicians and sorcerers intrigued me. |
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| Pre-Christian epic ballads, agricultural songs, laments, and tales dating back to before the tenth century were recorded for the first time in the seventeenth century. |
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| One of the scariest tales shared in the exhibit involves the U.S. military. |
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| As a result, you're always hearing tales about the perfect slice of pizza in distant Flatbush, say, or the incomparable samosa in far-off Jackson Heights. |
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| The tellers of these tales usually neglect to mention that recycling, composting and public-education programs were introduced along with user pay. |
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| In the course of his travels, Carroll has amassed some hilarious, touching, and serendipitous tales from the road. |
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| They carry with them proof of their amazing visits, and can spend much time narrating tales about every photograph and testimonial they carry with them. |
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| The darkness and dissonance of these tightly constructed tales reflect something of the political turbulence of Soviet Russia. |
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| There was an altogether more subtle look at his show which drew on Homer and Plato's tales of sirens singing unsuspecting sailors to their deaths. |
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| Every effort to locate either earlier tellings of these two tales has failed, a real-world Bluebeard who murdered wives in his castle is a post-Perrault creation. |
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| I don't want to dramatize my tales of tear gas and fear and outrage. |
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| The Taiping Rebellion had added another dimension to these folk memories, expressed in heroic tales of the imaginary exploits of its leader Hong Xiuquan. |
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| Radio broadcasts and recordings of epic tales and local histories told by leading griots have helped transport this literature into the twenty-first century. |
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| A robust grandfather, once the bane of Hollywood screenwriting, regales his frail, fidgety grandson with horrible tales of the macabre and the supernatural. |
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| In addition to formal calendars using certain flowers, superstitions and old wives' tales about plants and flowers abound for each month of the year. |
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| While the previous chapter covered the extermination of zombies, this chapter will explain the many misconceptions and old wives' tales about killing zombies or old wives. |
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| Mine is a generation without old wives' tales or handy money-saving hints. |
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| As a young boy, Andrew Roberts, the leading historian, thrilled to the tales in Our Island Story, and he's delighted that it is now being reprinted. |
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| She tells us tales of ambulances collecting women in labour to take them to the hospital delivery suites, only to be held up at a checkpoint where the women give birth. |
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| Anderson tells his tales with a great deal of surprisingly original material aided by his four-way narrative. |
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| Two dozen hourlong tales of mystery, suspense, comedy, and intrigue delivered over the course of a year. |
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| The pub boasts no tales of hauntings, but there is a bricked-up cellar space which once linked the Queen's Tap, the GWR hotel next door and the station itself. |
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| Each of the huge rafters had been carved from a single tree, and old tombstones told tales of deaths on distant shores as, indeed, they did in Kochi's St. Francis Church. |
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| He is so good at telling Andersen's tales that one wishes to hear more. |
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| If fairy tales make you think of simpering goody-goody princesses and men in tights with page boy haircuts, has Ella Enchanted got a surprise for you. |
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| If we were seated around a fire and an owl hooted or a bush-baby cried in the dark, witchcraft was blamed and the narration of folk tales was abandoned. |
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| My granda sat me on his knee and told me tales that filled me with wonder. |
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| Cavarero writes generically complex tales of the narratable self, reviving the writerly tradition of Roland Barthes, and echoing his recognition of eros, love, and desire. |
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| And tales of the tight 2003 title climax will not chill this man 's blood. |
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| Until scientific evidence became available, the most famous tales centred invariably around man-eaters, narrated by the shikari or hunter-turned-conservationist. |
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| Whatever the case, it's a sign of our miserabilist times that precisely the time of year when there is the most fun to be had is overshadowed by tales of gloom. |
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| She becomes a devotee of death, addicted to the most shuddery of Grimms' fairy tales and a book for the terminally ill called A Hundred Ways to Die. |
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| The authors of classics like Haunted Heartland have returned with a brand new collection of ghost stories and haunted tales from all across the country. |
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| And to be sure, they read tales of quick riches and overnight fame. |
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| There's only us and a few other people eating lunch in this big bar and I fear for their appetite as he spouts swear words, smoke and grisly tales of true crime. |
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| Yet strip away ideology and what emerges are two strikingly similar tales of radicalization, militancy and, in the case of these two men, deradicalization. |
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| Under the auspices of the fellowship, Hurston was to travel to Florida and New Orleans to begin her research on African American folk tales and to scout out hoodoo practice. |
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| Ensconced in the soft blue glow of our cave, dog-tired, warm and snug in a sleeping bag, with tall tales and drams doing the rounds, it all seemed rather heavenly. |
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| While Nora enthusiastically turns to fairy tales as a form of childhood therapy, she also unwittingly absorbs the genre's patriarchal and racist subtexts. |
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| Reports suggest some southern toffs plan to stay at home rather than venture north of Watford, scared by tales of chilly climes, cloth caps and whippets. |
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| This contiguity is reflected in tales about the creation of human forms. |
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| He was a true character in every sense of the word, with numerous tales to relate about his working life on the land and also his time in the army. |
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| There were farther off sections dedicated to suit the reader's tastes more efficiently, a whole block of gothic and horrifying tales were emitting soft moans and howls. |
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| Gone were the secret incantations and gothic tales of interred bodies, but the divining rod remained, now viewed as a conductor of imponderable fluids. |
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| Dame Diana Rigg, who plays Lady Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones, has turned tales of critical bashing into a delightful play. |
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| But, I should begin at the beginning, where all epic tales begin. |
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| Her work is imbued with a keen sense of the macabre and the wittily surreal and draws heavily on symbolism and themes derived from traditional fairy tales and folk myths. |
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| There is no information about where Ellen learned her tales or from whom. |
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| He was a magician, an invisible teller of tales with the power to make my sides ache without telling a single joke. |
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| After years of obsessively reading books of chivalry, his mind finally snaps and he decides to become an actual knight errant like those in the tales he has read. |
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| Kathryn Thomas regaled guests with tales of her trip to Bulgaria, and made them green with envy when she announced that she was off again to Egypt, the next day. |
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| Cowboys rarely, if ever, ate pasta and Italy's history, while rich and storied, is bereft of tales of cattle rustlers, gunslingers and homesteaders circling the wagons. |
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| Shelves have been filled with bestselling reverential SEAL, delta force, and sniper tales sold as memoirs. |
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| Historical tales suggested that a woman attained both the power to give a curse and to confer a blessing in the period between her vow of sati and her death. |
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| Rumours that a bootleg recording of him singing in the hotel bar still exists is just one of the enthralling tales which surround the famous venue. |
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| We have heard tales of immense human suffering and unimaginable depravity. |
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| From a stolen degas to Ansel Adams negatives at a garage sale, we uncover more tales of art gone astray. |
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| The stories of coastal Aboriginal people are tales of sea creatures and their journeyings, stories that connect past mythic events with present coastal land and reefscapes. |
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| The mojo tales are variedly frightening, mysterious, tongue-in-cheek, curious, exciting, didactic and deceptively simplistic, but almost always interesting. |
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| But when the darkness closes in, we actually run to fairy tales and fables. |
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| Senior officials normally observe a longstanding political taboo by skirting around such tales of torment. |
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| This braggart weaves astonishing tales of cunning and will while stalking game, and even more preposterous stories of superhuman feats of boozing. |
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| He woos her with tales of his fraught relationship with Queen Isabella of Spain and his love of the open ocean. |
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| Of course, Creekmore knew the tales about the Killer, and frankly, the house gave him the creeps. |
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| Chloe of the Midnight Storytellers will amuse the guests by recounting tales from myth and legend, as well as adaptations of literary short stories. |
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| In many of the tales the fairies are tiny, silly, helpless creatures. |
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| Jung, not Freud, liked fairy tales for what they tell us about human nature. |
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| You will be pleased to hear that I have enough of these tales on file to last another six months, and three out of the next four involve things getting blown up. |
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| Westerners may have grown accustomed to lurid tales of European royals, but not so the thais. |
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| I remember tales of two or three men catching hundreds of white bass from Lake Livingston or its tributaries, depending on the time of year, in a morning or afternoon. |
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| Set in Edwardian London, the movie starts off with Wendy who narrates harrowing tales of swordplay and Captain Hook, who fears nothing but a ticking clock. |
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| With a gigantic career based upon an aw-shucks tone of blue collar tales of midwestern values, couldn't one little fling many years ago get absolved after a teary apology? |
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| But Lawrence's distinction breaks down in the end, for the telling of tales is also a way that the teller advances his own knowledge of the world. |
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| With the fiscal crisis, more people are willing to listen to tales about colluding bankers trying to undermine capitalism. |
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