Примери за tall tale

• From tall tale, to dream, to waking reality, it makes a return journey through various unstable frames to find the "real spectre of the antique" at last.

• But it was impossible to separate those whom one suspected were telling a tall tale from those who were genuinely unable to raise the extra money.

• Her winning tall tale was about how the ozone layer became damaged, ice caps melted and people had to be taken to work on camels.

• It's a toughly told, very tall tale, one of the best escape (and escapist) movies of the season.

• A tall tale is a story with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual.

• The book was autobiographical in nature, but likely would fall into the category of tall tale.

• In addition to this, he is excessively superstitious, often to the extent of believing every myth, legend, tall tale, etc. to be literally true.

• Most of his books are considered to fit well in the tall tale category.

• How far you get through this tall tale of a thriller before you give up and howl is a matter of personal taste.

• He garnered headlines for his tall tale about fighting a grizzly bear.

• Each and every participating speaker is given three to five minutes to give a short speech of a tall tale nature, and is then judged according to several factors.

• The story was originally a tall tale to entertain delegates at a scientific conference on family planning; although it was later repeated as truth, it has no known historical basis.

• It is no good fobbing off the farmers of this country with tall tales about quotas, prohibitions and restrictions if you cannot carry them out.

• Does he agree that it is offensive when criminals pocket profits by telling tall tales to tabloids, thus gaining from their ill-gotten actions and badly written memoirs?

• As such, many of the stories told about them have the aura of tall tales.