tale
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That unaffected authenticity helps gird us for the quietly complicated tale “Union County” has to tell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
It’s a tale as old as Dickens: No one likes a Scrooge.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
"What if I have completely overestimated my capabilities? What if my story ends up being a cautionary tale like Icarus about flying too close to the sun?" he writes in the book.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
There is symmetry to the tale of the Nobel family in Russia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
“To explain all that is a tale, all right. It’s not a long tale, but a medium one —say, that’s not bad! A medium tale about a soothsayer.”
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
Blur's Dave Rowntree will also share the tales behind the band's formative years through unheard stories alongside candid photos from his new bestselling book, No One You Know.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
He called on him to quit and injected further tales of alleged cruelty into the discussion.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2026
He entertained mass audiences so successfully that his murder mysteries, spy sagas and innocent-man-accused tales became their own genre: the Alfred Hitchcock Movie, often imitated but never equaled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
She recalls other witches from folk tales like Baba Yaga, frightening characters but also, she says, “women possessing an innocence that had been eroded over the years by the harshness of life.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
His tales had a bite and a message and could be delivered over and over again.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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