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452 Sentences With "tells of"

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A few doors on, Sonia Sauceda tells of similar success.
Another one tells [of] the arrival of aliens on Earth.
He tells of his flight from bombs, hunger and repression.
However, Robroek also tells of the "abandoned" spa's current residents.
It tells of a soldier's steamy affair with a Jewish woman.
The topography of your skull tells of your character and intellect?
This whimsically illustrated atlas tells of the forgotten and the legendary.
She tells of her Southern childhood and an idiosyncratic acting career.
O'Brien also tells of the first time he killed a man.
A spare, lonesome thing, it tells of infanticide, rot and ruin.
Jassy tells of an executive retreat at Jeff Bezos' house in 2003.
A news report tells of a child blown up by a grenade.
Each tells of transients who live somewhat apart from their larger cultures.
Your book tells of relationships the Fromm family had with celebrities, too.
A new book tells of political horse-trading at the Supreme Court.
McKinnon tells of a bumbling angel named Keith, who wasn't all that great.
" Later, Waldman tells of a woman "mumbling mantras … as she circles the tower.
PARIS — Jibran tells of escaping Taliban attackers who killed three of his brothers.
The Blues Trail tells of how some of them coped with the burdens of perpetual injustice; the Freedom Trail tells of those who got tired of coping and somehow summoned the courage to try to free themselves from those burdens.
She tells of the search for her mother and the secret relationship they developed.
The song, "Banano de Urabá", tells of a slaughter of banana pickers in 1928.
Abdul Sumud Shaibu, 50, also lives in Obuasi and tells of his strong ancestors.
Another, called "The Lights Are Out," tells of the constant blackouts in his neighborhood.
Another tells of saving a single bullet with which to kill himself if captured.
Nadia Murad is the witness who tells of the abuses perpetrated against herself and others.
One story tells of a trans woman who was arrested on counts of female impersonation.
The ballad tells of a backwoods beauty who marries up, but to a violent man.
"Nadia Murad is the witness who tells of the abuses perpetrated against herself and others."
He tells of meeting an addict when he was a young reporter in San Diego.
Cardona tells of the macho empowerment he felt as an alpha in a hazardous domain.
He tells of unearthing a labour camp where illegal migrants made creosote in dire conditions.
She also tells of her alcohol and drug abuse and experiences with lovers of both sexes.
McIntosh, who retired as an HVAC professional, tells of his joy rescuing cats, including feral felines.
He tells of men borrowing money to remove kidney stones, which can form without proper hydration.
This typical story from Nepal tells of seven children who have disappeared from a small village.
It's one of the ultimate tells of vulnerability, which is a characteristic we're taught to avoid.
One account tells of a man who identified his wife and two sisters among the corpses.
Another tells of a bricklayer who created an effective, albeit cramped, hiding place for his family.
He tells of his experiences moving to Mumbai and feeling like his dreams had come true.
A lesbian tells of her decision to enter a marriage of convenience to a gay man.
The soft thump of the garbage bags on the landing tells of a small, soft death.
The series tells of the special agents Valerian and Laureline, who travel through space and time.
Like its precursor, "Olive, Again" tells of the lives of a host of characters beyond Olive.
The poem 'The Curse of Akkad' tells of how the harvests failed and the population starved.
And one of the tells of that for me was the shape of the yield curve.
It tells of a gathering of young warriors striving for matauranga (knowledge), taumatatanga (excellence) and whanaunatanga (unity).
She was a witness who tells of the abuses perpetrated against herself and others, the citation said.
Industry report after industry report tells of slowing customer traffic and predicts the closure of more malls.
Wechsler tells of a patient who started coughing, wheezing and becoming short of breath in his 60s.
Another myth of the Pine Barrens tells of a white stag that warns travelers of impending doom.
In the story that my mother tells of my birth, I was taken from her by force.
Depicted in cutout animation style, it tells of a young prince out to confront an elephant king.
Like Shakespeare's tragedy, it tells of an impossible young love that leads to the lovers' untimely deaths.
But the story Ms. Lloyd tells of her Iowa childhood is about living under the poverty line.
Kipling's story "The Janeites" tells of a group of World War I vets who were closet Janeites.
"Winterreise," in 24 songs, tells of a spurned young lover's exile from the home of his beloved.
In the clip, Obama tells of high school athletes who became dependent on drugs while recovering from injuries.
The report tells of one particularly large seizure of illegally logged wood in Venezuela, totaling about 20,000 truckloads.
But his book, which tells of his efforts to track down and revive long-lost species, suggests otherwise.
One famous story tells of Lomonosov being set upon by three robbers as he walked home one night.
History tells of a great console war during the 8-and 203-bit years, between Sega and Nintendo.
"My first gig ever in Europe was London, at Fabric," he tells of his almost unbelievable career path.
Ernst Krenek's "The Dictator" (1928), loosely based on Mussolini, tells of the rise of a dynamic fascist leader.
Mr. Brown's all-male dance of the same name, made in 1998, tells of loss, love and perseverance.
The myth tells of a famed lyre player who journeys into the underworld to rescue his beloved, Eurydice.
Parker tells of seeing a woman whose fetus had Potter syndrome, in which the lungs do not develop.
The story tells of a renowned troubadour, Jaufré Rudel, prince of Blaye, in 12th-century Aquitaine in France.
Set off the coast of Hawaii, the film tells of an American Navy crew's fight against extraterrestrial invaders.
The term "material culture" tells of the relationships between people and their things, irrespective of time and place.
"Daily Spike" blogger Jennifer Williams tells of her battle with thyroid cancer, and how Spike aided in her recovery.
ONE tale of Nasreddin, a self-satirising 13th-century philosopher, tells of the time he lost a precious ring.
A former employee of a public interest group tells of being berated by Pai for an offending press release.
The emotional video tells of a patient with blood cancer who tries an experimental therapy involving "natural killer" cells.
Reinhardt's libretto tells of a ninety-five-year-old woman who is reliving her life as she faces death.
The international agency's report "We Have Forgotten What Happiness Is" tells of the trauma suffered during the ISIS occupation.
It tells of a cheerful, underemployed scholar, Ho Yunqing (Shih Chun), who makes a meager living as a copyist.
Just a minute and a half long, the song tells of a competition over who has the fanciest pants.
Streaming on the Criterion Channel, Kanopy and Amazon Prime  La Dolce Vita tells of a dissolute celebrity reporter, Marcello.
One tale tells of the Ute, an Indigenous tribe from this valley and their uneasy alliance with the Navajo.
In another column, a pseudonymous Sykes tells of awakening one day to find that he has someone else's feet.
Legend tells of a nightmare email chain between staffers years ago, hundreds of bad opinions long, over this exact issue.
Mr Kagan tells of the chaos after the first world war and the rise of Bolshevism and fascism it engendered.
Legend tells of a programmer named Martin Kirkholt Melhus who worked at a client site where there was no Internet.
Her 1931 story "Two Friends" tells of the broken friendship of two prosperous citizens, one Democrat and the other Republican.
Guzman tells of his poor upbringing and how dealing drugs was the only way to provide his family with food.
Drawing on an account by Jo Ann Robinson, Tufekci tells of the Montgomery N.A.A.C.P.'s shrewd process of auditioning icons.
In the legal community, we call this a "speaking indictment," given the detailed story it tells of Stone's alleged criminality.
His young daughter, Asma (Aalayna Lys), is also roused from sleep, and tells of having dreamed of her deceased mother.
There were seminars on creating YouTube videos; a tin can Q. and A., and show-and-tells of favorite gadgets.
In "Gay," a male student tells of ending up at a motel room for a sexual encounter with two partners.
Engrossing, and sometimes enraging, the movie tells of triplets who, after being adopted separately at birth, were reunited by happenstance.
Michael Powell's 210 film "The Edge of the World" tells of the desertion of St. Kilda in the Outer Hebrides.
"Heart Chamber," for which Czernowin wrote her own libretto, tells of a contemporary love affair infiltrated by anxieties and hesitations.
D'Silva tells of women who have found the courage to report their experiences only after reading others' stories on Safecity.
Carl Jung tells of a very special moment when he was in western Kenya, near Mt. Elgon about a century ago.
A local legend tells of the Black Spring, when nature turns on the inhabitants and further reveals the town's rotten core.
"Brooklyn" tells of a young Irish woman who arrives in the United States in the early 1950s and falls in love.
One Syrian woman tells of how she found the body of a person killed in an airstrike – "it was like mincemeat".
Pravit Rojanaphruk was twice detained arbitrarily at military bases for his articles—he tells of dark cells and six-hour interrogations.
This essential exposé, which includes tragic case histories, tells of legions of prisoners put in solitary confinement or subdued with medication.
That is an even deeper curse, it tells of terrors to come the likes of which a rational person can't comprehend.
Read an excerpt from the book below that tells of early David Bowie shows and getting blanked by the Rolling Stones.
I was reminded of an anecdote Ms. Didion tells of encountering a 5-year-old tripping on LSD in San Francisco.
One legend tells of a hero who defeated a disease-spreading river demon with the help of chrysanthemum wine and dogwood.
Mr. de la Manitou tells of Hopper alienating Taos locals and sassing cops in bars as if these were heroic acts.
The narrator, in a fit of ennui, tells of his desire to head to sea as a remedy to his depression.
The story that man, Ji Seong-ho, tells of his escape is remarkable even by the standards of North Korean defectors.
The myth tells of the return of the daughter to her mother and with it the passage from death to life.
My brother tells of drunk people in the street punching one-handed while holding their pita-wrapped meat protectively behind them.
Another tells of a young girl whose tears became tagimoucia flowers when her parents scolded her for not doing her housework.
It tells of a researcher's life story, intertwined with some of the most brilliant space discoveries of the last few decades.
One former chief executive tells of a $20133m debt repayment for his company having to be made with a suitcase of cash.
The story, adapted for Pan-Asian Rep by Jeremy Tiang, tells of two immortal beings, reborn as cousins, whose love is forbidden.
It tells of a virgin who died in a storm as her boyfriend collected seaweed from a rock in a nearby cove.
In his study of contemporary freemasonry, J. Scott Kenney, a sociologist, tells of masons joining the group in search of greater meaning.
In the basement of a YMCA on Chicago's South Side, he tells of being thrown out of home when he was 14.
Rothman tells of a man who died kayaking in cold water whose sperm were in good shape a full two days later.
At St. Joseph's, Beaudry tells of being on a leadership call with the company's other hospitals about the need for relief staff.
It tells of a family of ethereal singers who try to maintain peace and balance in the world's realms through their songs.
Desmond lived as a researcher in impoverished sections of Milwaukee and tells of his neighbors there struggling to find places to live.
Borrowing from the Polanski playbook, it tells of a woman's unraveling into a homicidal psychopath as she minds an upscale Manhattan apartment.
One of the many chilling stories of the transports tells of the last journey of three of the sisters of Sigmund Freud.
The narrator tells of a government spokesman dreaming of his wife, who is on a plane heading toward the World Trade Center.
Altering a patient's immune cells, and new drugs, can help — and our reporter tells of his friend's stunning improvement, before the relapses.
Legend tells of a princess from Ayodhya who traveled to Korea 2,000 years ago, eventually marrying a local king and becoming queen.
Set in the dry days of Prohibition, it tells of the whirlwind romance between a high-class dame and her bootlegging swain.
Mr. Berheim tells of some cast members choking up rehearsing a scene in which his character agonizes over burning his draft card.
A survivor named Habiba tells of being captured aged 15, locked in a cage for four months, and forced to marry a soldier.
The Reichstag, Berlin Current Foster + Partners news tells of a range of projects in development — the most notable of which is Apple Park.
One restaurant owner tells of a Bahraini employee who took a holiday whenever he wanted, then demanded extra compensation when he was fired.
Your columnist's colleague tells of a business jaunt to Tel Aviv, in which she was booked into a bog-standard brand-name hotel.
Set in an Eastern Europe town, "The Dybbuk" tells of a yeshiva student who uses kabbalistic means to win the woman he loves.
We also see a glimpse of something way, way too real, as a young man tells of how his computer's camera was hacked.
The kissing unites Harry Rawlings (Liam Neeson) and his wife, Veronica (Viola Davis), in bed, and it tells of both tenderness and lust.
In Nina Riggs's memoir "The Bright Hour," she tells of commiserating with a friend who is also dealing with triple negative breast cancer.
He tells of one night when his niece slept over at his house and set out a little photo of her dog, Pepper.
The film noir "Key Largo," with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, tells of a hostage situation during the lead-up to a hurricane.
That's what happened in a crunchy college town in Indiana, and this article, written by Jack Healy, tells of how the community responded.
A narrator (the robust tenor Paul McNamara, who also sang the role of St. John) tells of the apostles being called by Jesus.
The title story tells of a man named Jovan waiting in a Belgrade cafe for his cousin to bring him some inheritance money.
One in the Sunflower Garden tells of how sunflowers may be used, including in the production of fabric and paper, paint and cosmetics.
The buttermilk-poached salt trout, a main course in the October dinner hosted at the farm, tells of a tradition lost to industry.
He tells of being flown to Hawaii in the 1970s to minister to Richard Nixon, in danger of losing a leg to phlebitis.
Woolf's novel tells of an Elizabethan nobleman and poet who abides through the centuries and migrates from the male gender to the female.
A folk tale made famous by the late Kenyan activist Wangari Maathai tells of a forest fire that causes all the animals to flee.
Set in Ceylon (Sri Lanka, today) in ancient times, the story tells of the fishermen Nadir and Zurga, who have been friends since childhood.
Preserving the familiar names of the ballet's characters but radically reinterpreting them, Ms. Masilo tells of Prince Siegfried who is expected to marry Odette.
The R-rated "Hellboy," based on the Dark Horse comic books, tells of a bright red, muscle-bound half-demon with filed-down horns.
AN OFT-QUOTED story in Italy tells of a wiretapped conversation between two criminals a few days after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
This curry tells of adaptation to the terrain and available ingredients—and it's not short on mystery, sparking its fair share of urban legends.
In the long story Haneke tells of middle-class misery and rot, we're all acting out the same dramas and committing the same transgressions.
A new Amnesty International report tells of the desperation of the roughly 1,703 people stuck in Nauru, which has a population of about 10,000.
One soprano declaims these words while another sings settings of poems by Rebecca Elson, who tells of a similar struggle, in more oblique terms.
The local lore about the sunlight pilgrims of the novel's title tells of a race who drink light to live through the darkest times.
Those half-beams, now out of step, will then interfere with each other at the detector in a way that tells of their experience.
Again and again, the book tells of the stability and normality at home that nurtured him—something he'd become accustomed to during his childhood.
In bursts of poetry and prose, "Cane" tells of black life in the lethal rural South and in the loveless cities of the North.
Sweet's photography partner, Gary Monroe, who works in black and white, tells of how they conceived a 10-year project to document their hometown.
In bursts of poetry and prose, it tells of black life in the lethal rural South and in the loveless cities of the North.
Details: She tells of being in the square as soldiers attacked, being injured and watching the wounded and the dead pour into the hospital.
Amy Delaney, a Chicago elder law attorney, tells of a client in her late 80s with dementia admitted to an upscale assisted living community.
As adapted here, the story tells of two servants, Aci and Galatea, who tend to and bathe a sexually aggressive lord, Polifemo (the Cyclops).
Murphy tells of a client who recently shopped for a Medigap policy, only to turn up one plan costing $106 a month and another $240.
In a tender and moving essay, Ingrid Rojas Contreras tells of the lessons she learned from her mother, who was a psychic for a living.
The story it illustrates tells of a princess who is trapped but can hear any conversation in the world through the medium of a seashell.
Holi is tied to the legend of Holika, which tells of the god Vishnu's victory over the demoness Holika and her demon brother, King Hiranyakashyap.
She tells of family dinners where children were encouraged to speak and where her parents showered both her and her brother with attention and curiosity.
She tells of a loveless and repressive childhood, in which her parents, she claimed, "blamed me for everything," and she often felt like an outcast.
The workers' biographies are traceable partly because of the sheer volume of legal paperwork, which tells of unpaid bills, stints in prison and abandoned wives.
Winston Churchill tells of traumatic court scenes: One where Sarah collapses in front of the Queen, overcome by her failure to change the royal mind.
" About Elly " (2009) tells of a woman who goes missing during a weekend gathering of law-school pals, and of the suspicions that then arise.
Sitting in an easy chair next to an electric fire, Pepys tells of his lust for his wife's maid, and his determination to have her.
The story Christine Blasey Ford tells of her assault at the hands of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and his classmate Mark Judge is chilling.
The book tells of the heroic search-and-rescue operations, the hunt for the black box, the investigations and hearings and the nature of hurricanes.
Gruesome yet oddly entertaining, and based on a novel by Peter Ackroyd, it tells of a London woman raised in poverty by an abusive mother.
Written by Elling and the composer Phil Galdston, it tells of a young jazz singer in midcentury Chicago who's trying to catch his big break.
Another story this work evokes, from essayist Robert Fulghum, tells of a fireman speaking to a tenant whose apartment fire started in the tenant's bed.
In this book, he tells of befriending and collaborating with Tupac Shakur, and of the circumstances that cut short the careers, or lives, of several contemporaries.
His account of the ordeal, which he made available through a public Google document, tells of a superficially civil but no less intimidating and aggressive encounter.
" Thandie Newton (who plays the seductive Madame Maeve Millay) tells of nearly being blinded in an outdoors scene, facing into the sun, "because robots don't squint.
Their latest tells of a villager's reluctance to send his kids to school—and of course, his change of heart by the end of the film.
The older French chef who came up in the cruel, militaristic kitchens of the brigade system tells of the sous chef who routinely sexually assaulted him.
The history of the Yugurs tells of the wax and wane and mixing of cultures, dictated by geography and migration and the choices made by societies.
The photographer tells of subsisting in lean years on jars of Ovaltine, three spoonfuls a day, feasting on the sight of Madison Avenue shop windows instead.
A plaque that tells of the victims' fate will be placed over the grave, in Dorotheenstadt cemetery, where other victims of the Nazis are also buried.
Based on a real wartime event, it tells of a manufacturer of airplane parts whose defective product wound up killing 21 pilots on missions over Australia.
Elsewhere in that interview already cited, she tells of how Hepworth copied – no, stole – an idea from Gabo, and how outraged he was by that theft.
A commander who can barely read but goes by the alias "the Poet" tells of a recent firefight with a paramilitary squad in the hills nearby.
Mr. Moss, of Corcoran, tells of clients who cheerfully dismiss a well-situated apartment for the sake of what they call "nice and fresh," he said.
"A True Book: President Donald Trump," released by Scholastic, tells of Mr. Trump's real estate career, and of public perceptions of his Democratic opponent, Mrs. Clinton.
Casey Bryant, legal director of Latino Memphis, a social-services organisation, tells of a client hit by a car who was too nervous to make a fuss.
Mall tells of a client who, at age 80 and suffering from mild dementia, was sold an annuity with a 10-year surrender period by a broker.
He tells of a manufacturing client his company has been working with who combined AI with an augmented reality headset to teach low-skilled workers new jobs.
Around a table laden with both traditional American Thanksgiving food and traditional Nigerian food, Courtney's father tells of his struggles and triumphs with his large extended family.
Ms Konnikova tells of hucksters masquerading as doctors, royals or moguls, all armed with a gifted imagination, a silver tongue and an ability to size people up.
He tells of workers who lost their footing or whose harnesses failed while building a bridge near his home town of Cizhong, 20 or 103 kilometres south.
The Exaltation of Inanna tells of how Enheduanna was forced from her temple by a cruel usurper named Lugalanne, who seems to have existed in real life.
THE AD Flashing "cancer survivor" tattoos on his forearms, Dante Latchman, 17, tells of surviving a rare spinal-cord affliction that was diagnosed when he was 1.
A Gazan correspondent tells of soirees timed around daily power cuts; in the West Bank, a rare woman DJ awaits an elusive permit to perform in Israel.
He tells of the party the locals held for him on his departure, killing a sheep to eat and giving him a notebook filled with good wishes.
He recalls what he found examining the farm workers' plight, but it is Udelia who tells of Mr. Sanders's actions to address the situation, including holding hearings.
Mr. Jackiw, in a program note, charmingly tells of having discovered this concerto in 1999, through the film "Analyze This," starring Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal.
His face isn't visible, but the story he tells — of survival in the mountains and grief after losing his child with Ruby to the cold — is epic.
This documentary tells of Madden's rise, his conviction for stock fraud and money laundering in the 2002 and his subsequent re-entry into his own shoe superpower.
The aroma of olive oil tells of the ancient reciprocity between people and olive trees, a bond that allowed Mediterranean cultures to thrive, even on arid land.
Mr. Garaio Esnaola's choreography puts a powerful contemporary spin on Molière's comedy, which tells of a pompous, bourgeois gentleman who longs to be accepted by the aristocracy.
The case report tells of a 69-year-old man with a pancreatic tumor who was treated with a nuclear medicine at an Arizona hospital in 2017.
Another story tells of a family's war against a plague of ants, an invasive species that crossed the ocean — undoubtedly our fault — and arrived ready to siege.
And "Oh Great, Now Alexa Will Judge Your Outfits, Too" tells of an innovation that combines a photoshoot and a fashion critique in the privacy of your closet.
It tells of a calculating femme fatale who can also be seen as a victimized young woman getting ahead as best she can in a male-dominated society.
The stories she tells of life in the village, where a young mother is drowned as a witch, imply that poisonous sexism isn't exclusive to the urban West.
One of the former residents tells of neighbors at the time who were tattooed with numbers from Nazi concentration camps and were perhaps fearful of interacting with police.
His own daughter Jamie—one of three children Bernstein had with his wife, Felicia Montealegre, a Chilean actress—tells of the joy of devouring Beatles LPs with him.
Handel, in a quick succession of recitatives, arias and duets, tells of the god Apollo's somewhat bullying courtship of the nymph Daphne, who wants no part of him.
He also tells of the aid that women writers offered one another, of their defiance of male authority, and of alternative workshops they formed in contradistinction to Iowa.
He tells of how his family's lack of money prevented them from visiting a doctor even when his brother broke his leg and his mother lost her teeth.
"Honey Boy," which Guerrasio lauded as "the most honest movie of the year," tells of LaBeouf's relationship with his father, which included verbal and physical abuse at times.
The story that Maher wrote tells of a newly discovered island nation that decides to join the modern world by fielding a team for an international basketball league.
The second tells of Harith al-Sudani, perhaps Iraq's greatest spy, one of a few in the world to have infiltrated the upper reaches of the Islamic State.
Finally, Melissa Broder's racy debut novel, "The Pisces" (out this May), tells of a young woman who, strolling Venice Beach one night, meets a handsome merman named Theo.
The Chapman family history, told over generations, tells of a slave named Andeline who in 1852, as a young teenager, gave birth to Chapman's great-grandmother, Ann Davis.
This 1887 article tells of a total mosquito takeover, lamenting that the pests ignore screens and net canopies and do not, after all, dislike tobacco and the beach.
The enduring 19th-century comedic ballet "Coppélia" tells of a young man who falls for a lifelike doll until his human girlfriend helps him snap out of it.
He tells of reading Cheever stories in an Albanian cafe, "To the Lighthouse" by a lake in northern Minnesota, Álvaro Mutis while volunteering with the Zapatistas in Chiapas.
Another novel, "You Gotta Play Hurt" (1991), a sendup of the sportswriter's life, tells of a cantankerous Fort Worthian and the stuffy, big time magazine he works for.
"Jealous Neighbor," written and sung by Elias Chimenya, 40, a convicted murderer with an ethereal voice, tells of the tensions between individual labor and communal spirit in his village.
With acoustics reminiscent of Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide," A Great Big World's song tells of how Axel's life has changed all for the better with the arrival of his son.
Minara Begum, 22, calms her crying one-month-old son, Ayub, as she tells of fleeing from her village of Nasha Phuru with her husband and mother-in-law.
Mr. Newport's column tells of a writer who became overwhelmed by his sense of obligation "to update his blog every half-hour or so," for very little value delivered.
The Passenger tells of becoming a "dental refugee" when he has to get two molars removed in Ciudad Juárez because it is much cheaper than in the United States.
In a world where a black child isn't safe, the Afrofuturistic music of P-Funk tells of another world where that same child is a necessity and a star.
A Times journalist in Beijing tells of being kicked out of an investors' event held by the family company of Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of President Trump.
It tells of a Portuguese Jesuit priest, Father Rodrigues, who in 1643 heads into the dark heart of Japan, where Christians are being persecuted — boiled alive, immolated and crucified.
"The Ottoman Lieutenant," which tells of a dashing Turkish officer who helps save imperiled Armenians — while carrying on with an American nurse — reinforces that debunked Turkish narrative, detractors say.
An old joke tells of a motorist who runs over a pedestrian, then tries to fix the damage by backing up — and runs over the victim a second time.
In the "Clinical Tales" section, an essay called "Travels With Lowell" tells of visiting La Crete, a Mennonite community in Canada populated by Touretters of many intensities and variations.
James McMurtry's "We Can't Make It Here," from 2005, tells of a struggling, wounded Vietnam veteran, empty storefronts, a failing bar, and the pinch of a stagnant minimum wage.
Karemaker's narration there — set in white lettering atop boxy smudges for captions — tells of "the alcohol in (his) blood" boosting his confidence in approaching a woman at the bar.
One entry describes his first attempt to come ashore, the day before his death, and tells of how the Bible literally saved him as an incoming arrow pierced the book.
The 1951 opera based on Herman Melville's novella tells of an alluring seaman who accidentally kills the master-at-arms on an 18th-century warship and is sentenced to death.
She tells of her father's death, the summers she spent at her grandparents' house, Sunday walks along the Bosporus, and most of all her difficult relationship with her unhappy mother.
"The Journey" tells of a female suicide-bomber who, just as she is about to blow herself up, questions how she will rip apart the lives of people around her.
One traumatised family being evacuated by the security forces tells of seeing three of their daughters and their mother torn apart by shelling as they tried to escape on foot.
For instance, David Iglesias, the former United States attorney for New Mexico, tells of receiving pressure from Republican members of Congress to file charges against Democrats before the 2006 elections.
The story he tells of his thinking life is crowded with other people: talks he's been to, papers he's read, colleagues he's met, talks they've been to, papers they've read.
Her excruciating personal story, glimpsed through her restrained and careful prose, tells of the almost unthinkable human cost of one person's battle against a much stronger and very sophisticated enemy.
The intellectual historian Don Herzog tells of the time, in the early 1830s, when the Duke of Devonshire took his librarian, John Payne Collier, lunch at the duke's palatial estate.
Among many anecdotes that illustrate his wincing desperation, he tells of gobbling up pills that had fallen onto the floor beneath a urinal at a black-tie event in 20023.
The New York Times in a recent article tells of a town hall in Palco, Kansas where Moran met with and discussed his concerns about the GOP health care bill.
One memory, referred to through the book, tells of "the oath": Family members gathered solemnly in the dining room and swore on the Bible not to reveal a big secret.
She tells of a prophecy regarding her god and a reincarnated hero known as the Prince (or Princess) that was Promised, who had been sent to vanquish the Great Other.
The story gets a lovely adaptation with the 2016 film, distributed by Netflix, in which an overworked little girl meets the Aviator, who tells of his friendship with a little prince.
The story tells of a farmer who found an extraterrestrial princess named Kaguya locked away in a stalk of bamboo, and who is so beautiful the emperor wishes to marry her.
In another account from the same games, this anonymous US athlete tells of partying so hard she was still drunk when meeting Vice President Joe Biden at a sanctioned team event.
Jack and Ann Warner's daughter, Barbara, tells of being seized with fear as she visited her mother's grave and saw a Nazi flag, until she realized a film was being shot.
One of the stories in "El Llano en Llamas" recounts the murder of migrants seeking to cross the Rio Grande; another tells of a dispute over grazing rights ending in murder.
As I write this, the morning news tells of new plans for aggressive deportation, of media figures conflating hate speech with free speech, of the dismantling of our public school system.
One story tells of the ghost of a doctor named James Still, brother of William Still, who wrote 'The Underground Railroad,' who was lynched for practicing medicine as a black man.
One of our most read stories today tells of the life and death of Julian Washington, 30, who was killed in a stabbing in one of New York City's deadliest precincts.
Duhigg tells of a pilot who landed an Airbus during a huge system failure by thinking about the plane in a different way, as if it were a single-engine Cessna.
First published in 1888, Henry James's " The Aspern Papers " tells of a littérateur who goes to Venice in search of letters relating to a long-dead Romantic poet named Jeffrey Aspern.
Finally, Joe Biden went on "The Late Show" to promote his new memoir, "Promise Me, Dad," which tells of how he dealt with the death of his son Beau in 2015.
Drawing largely upon Jean Racine's 17th-century adaptation of the Greek myth, the poetic libretto by Christian Lehnert tells of Phaedra's attempt to seduce her stepson, Hippolyt, and her subsequent suicide.
As when, for instance, he tells of how taking Broderick Crawford and Dan Dailey to a White House lunch with Betty Ford helped him obtain location permissions for his Hoover picture.
The work, which tells of a woman and her descent into madness through her own journal entries, and addresses gender relations, was viewed by 33,441 people in the first 24 hours.
The limited series stars Chris Evans, Michelle Dockery, Jaeden Martell, Cherry Jones, Pablo Schreiber, Betty Gabriel and Sakina Jaffrey, and tells of a shocking crime that rocks a small Massachusetts town.
The film powerfully and poetically tells of their love and their imagined future through the fragments he left behind — a voice message, a letter, a dog tag, a hat, a receipt.
One favored story tells of a family moving into a lighthouse, of the birds that die flying into its beacon, of a buoy that turns out to be a floating mine.
When you face him in Dark Souls' "Artorias of the Abyss" DLC, he's corrupted and crazed, and a far cry from the noble, victorious warrior the core game's lore tells of.
Phibbs tells of a restaurant in Brooklyn that used to serve freshly baked bread with its dinners, but its new owners decided that was too expensive and switched to prepackaged dinner rolls.
"Facebook Story" tells of a relationship destroyed by social media, while the succeeding track "Close To You" gives a short eulogy for another relationship in which the speaker feels abandoned and unsupported.
Adapted from the critically acclaimed novel by André Aciman, the film tells of a summer of love for teenaged Elio (Timothée Chalamet), who has been raised in a culture of aesthetic pleasure.
She tells of the craze for pleasure-boat trips in the river's upper reaches during the late 19th century, and dwells at length on William Morris, the Victorian Arts and Crafts revivalist.
How to throw shade like Donald TrumpTo illustrate his point, he tells of a woman "making peanuts" in her government job before Trump recruited her to work for him in the 1980s.
Clutching her two-year-old daughter, she weeps as she tells of how she escaped from the mudslide, only to realize she couldn't find her husband, Lansana, 25, a motorbike taxi driver.
When, at last, her character receives a proposal of marriage, she blushes with perplexity, not joy, and the frown that furrows her brow tells of a deep dissatisfaction with the romantic norms.
She tells of heading to a baseball game with her husband when a friend, a fellow parent with a child on her son's team, texted her while driving right behind their car.
One of his best-known stories, "Imelda," tells of a plastic surgeon who, after his 19853-year-old patient dies, fixes her cleft lip so she will look prettier at the wake.
If one more legend tells of a "chosen" hero who will journey to find the thingy to save the world from a grave threat I will just scream and scream some more.
He tells of the thrilling moments when the music came together and offers an inside look at why Steve Perry left and the extraordinary story of their gifted new vocalist, Arnel Pineda.
Another exhibit tells of the Jews' Channel in the lagoon, dug so they could remove their dead for burial without crossing the centre of Venice, where louts would stone the waterborne hearses.
Reading it should make people uncomfortable, because it tells of a time not too long ago when someone with the wrong skin color could be killed for a glance or a whistle.
" Its wry anticipation of a likely rejection evokes a popular joke of unknown origin that tells of a tourist on a busy street engaging a local resident with the words, "Excuse me.
"Fidelio" tells of a Spanish noblewoman who, disguised as a young man, has taken a lowly job at a prison where her husband is being unjustly held by a powerful political enemy.
The installation "Mysterium Tremendum" (late 1980s) tells of a gay altar boy from New Jersey, who is beaten up by bullies, nearly kills himself, then finds redemption through his love of art.
Max Frankel, another of Kirchheimer's childhood friends (who went on to become the Times's executive editor), tells of his family's being denied immigration papers because their American sponsor wasn't deemed wealthy enough.
Winkler tells of the onion test that advises inserting an onion in the vagina of a woman, and if her breath smelled like onions the next day, it meant she was pregnant.
She tells of how she was kept naked in a cage, given painful injections directly into her spine, and beaten if she cried as she saw many other children suffer and die.
Keith Payne, a professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, tells of this research in a brilliant new book, "The Broken Ladder," about how inequality destabilizes societies.
At the end of "Borrowed Finery," Ms. Fox tells of being reunited with the daughter she had borne at 20, the offspring of a brief liaison after her first marriage had ended.
Zemmour tells of his grandfather's showing him an old postage stamp bearing a turbaned fighter holding a gun; his family name, which means "olive tree" in Berber, is blazoned across the top.
Smith also tells of Max Schrems, a University of Vienna law student visiting Santa Clara University, who got irritated by a tech company lawyer's dismissiveness about the company's obligations under European privacy law.
Image: Czarek Sokolowski/APIn the bowels of the Owl Mountains near Wałbrych, Poland, legend tells of a hidden train, armed to the teeth and packed with up to 300 tons of Nazi gold.
He tells of the time he heroically swam the Hellespont, and of the (less heroic) time he was picked up by the naval police while attempting to cross the Tagus estuary in Lisbon.
First, let's discuss the unbanked in the US. Mehrsa Baradaran's excellent book, How The Other Half Banks, tells of the fall of the rural bank and the growth of predatory and pernicious banking.
The Greek myth tells of the nymph Eurydice who dies after being bitten by a snake, only to be followed into the underworld by her husband Orpheus in hopes of getting her back.
Based on a 83 short story by the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar, the opera tells of a brother and sister living in their ancestral home, which is being taken over by mysterious entities.
A Dutch immigrant — the movie shares tantalizing tidbits about his past in the underground in World War II — Mr. deLeyer tells of hiding Jews in the cellars of family barns in the Netherlands.
Drew Kampion, an editor at Surfer at the time, tells of one occasion on which a Coast Guard boat was used to herd surfers to shore, where the M.P.s were waiting for them.
Alice Munro's masterly story ''The Bear Came Over the Mountain'' tells of a woman who develops the symptoms of Alzheimer's and, at a residential-care facility, has an affair with another such patient.
The film, which tells of the historic miscarriage of justice known as the Dreyfus affair, topped the country's box office, and, according to its sales distributor, has distribution throughout Europe, Russia and China.
" In one podcast from October 4, 2016, first reported by the Huffington Post, McNabb tells of an emergency call to what he characterized as a black apartment complex that medics call "Ebola Alley.
"Birth," which tells of the slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in 1831, was the passion project of its director, writer and star, Nate Parker, who spent eight years pulling the financing together.
In the Geology paper, the scientific team reports the discovery of about 500 micrometeorites — collected mainly from roof gutters in Norway — and tells of the detailed analysis of 48 of the extraterrestrial specks.
In the GQ piece, former advisor John Rice tells of a time Obama spent "hours" stewing over a pickup hoops loss —just after taking over the presidency, with no shortage of real-world problems.
And I think it's amazing that, with all the stories he tells of things that didn't happen, how much joy and enthusiasm and hope he still brings to every possible project that comes along.
" As DeGeneres and the studio audience burst in to laughter, Schumer tells of the valuable lesson she learned that night: "That is when I learned not to ever throw up in a wicker basket.
But Rimsky-Korsakov's romance "Summer Night's Dream," the work that followed on the program, in which a woman tells of the wondrous young man who visited her in a dream, is hardly less operatic.
Inasmuch as it features co-production from Frank Ocean collaborator Michael Uzowuru, defies traditional pop song structure and genre, and tells of Abstract's experiences with another man, American Boyfriend is this year's Channel Orange.
In essence an extended sketch, "The Pres and an Officer" tells of an idiot American president who doesn't know the difference between England and France and so decides to nuke both London and Paris.
Over a series of paintings in circular frames, a narrator tells of the mythic Chinese character Pan Jinlian, an adulteress whose name is still invoked in modern China to chastise an "indecent" woman. Understood.
Seamus Heaney tells of sensing a destiny in his poems directed by God, but whatever forces are credited, there's little question that most writers feel some inspirational push or tug connected with the work.
Remembering a Woman Who Was a Leader of the French Resistance: Lynne Olson's "Madame Fourcade's Secret War" tells of a woman who led the fight against the Nazis while combating sexism among her colleagues.
Although it nominally tells of four generations of a Michigan family, the play has elements of surrealism: a character named Beauty, for instance, never speaks and prefers subsisting on dirt and paint to regular food.
Like the one, first shared by a former Washington Post executive named James Truitt, that tells of Kennedy lighting up with family friend, socialite and lover Mary Pinchot Meyer on a July evening in 1962.
It mentioned one of them quoting from the Book of Ezekiel, which tells of the Lord appearing in a fire on the fifth day of the fourth month, the date of the Res Club fire.
Odom tells of feeling "scared half to death" and feeling trapped in his own body when he woke up from a four-day coma in a Nevad hospital after his near-fatal overdose last October.
Written a year before Plummer died at the age of 91, it tells of a dusty, Wild West town that was the site of land battles between the original Latino Californios and newcomer Anglo Americans.
Their belated induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame this March tells of a band who are far from unappreciated—their occasional reunion tours sell out arenas—but whose significance is much underestimated.
She tells of the stigmatization of their daughters still in captivity as "bad girls" who chose to stay with Boko Haram, reflecting the group's public narrative that the remaining girls elected to stay with them.
But it's clear Nixon was a born base-stealer, as evidenced by a video taken last year, when he breaks down the tells of a couple of his former teammates, Greg Maddux and John Smoltz.
For me that image tells of who she really is, not just a shoeshine girl but also a loving mother who goes the extra mile to give her daughter the childhood she herself never had.
The first witnesses the birth of the universe, the second goes through a nasty break up, the third tells of perfect love in a time of cancer, and the fourth sends poems from an underworld.
It is replete with scatological jokes; the story tells of a society that makes a Faustian pact to choose a king who will supposedly better their lives, but then shits on all of his subjects.
Adapted from a play by Reg Cribb and loosely based on a real-life story, the film tells of Rex McRae, a cabby who has never left his hometown, Broken Hill, in New South Wales.
Ahead of that Mr. Bennett will keep up the pace with the release of his fifth book, "Just Getting Started," which tells of his collaborative relationships with Fred Astaire, Cole Porter, Judy Garland, the Rev.
Imagined as a "Boomerang" or a "When Harry Met Sally" that pulls from their own experiences and identities, the movie tells of childhood sweethearts whose relationship sizzles anew later life, in their native San Francisco.
The narrative tells of a suspicious box — part of an artist installation — and a missing immigrant, and a moral conundrum that is well beyond the arbitration of our coiled cerebellum and our snaky self-justifications.
But if the earlier history of American cities is full of public-health horror stories about substandard housing, factory pollution and poor sanitation, more recent history tells of the health and resiliency density can provide.
While I read "Border Districts," I saw in my mind an image of a sentence in Tarjei Vesaas' novel "The Birds," which tells of Mattis, a purehearted naïf, and his relationship with his sister, Hege.
Set at the end of the Trojan War, the story tells of the romantic triangle among two princesses and Idamante — son of Idomeneo, king of Crete — and how he escapes being sacrificed to the gods.
The story, adapted from Ovid, tells of Galatea's consuming love for the shepherd Aci, which is threatened by the jealous monster Polifemo, whose frustrated yearning for Galatea provokes him to crush Aci with a boulder.
Angels in rows like reeds still sing the flighthigh in a brownstone gifted with Americanclarity: sun filters through glass saints, strews roses on the nave, and tells of lightforever, as from fields, not cramped backyards.
Co-creator Jim Reeves tells of the dangers of current electricity alternatives: "Millions of these people are forced into the poverty trap of using kerosene, which can consume as much as 30% of household incomes".
The 24-year-old woman tells of being sexually harassed by men in taxis and on the street and an incident in which money was stolen from her during a previous visit,  the wire service reports .
The conventional common-envelope story, developed over decades starting with the 303s work of the Soviet scientists Aleksandr Tutukov and Lev Yungelson, tells of a pair of massive stars that are born in a wide orbit.
She finds her truth in the middle of the night, swept out of her hammock and into her dreams, where the trembling of the ground as it breaks into an earthquake tells of a different fate.
A former psychologist, her 2014 novel "The Books of Jacob," for instance, is set on the Polish-Ukrainian border and tells of an 18th-century Jewish religious leader who forced conversions of fellow Jews to Catholicism.
In Catoosa, a school district not far from Tulsa, an elementary-school secretary tells of an aide with four children whose premiums were so large that she paid the district $200 a month to work there.
As Bachand says, the painting tells of a lost memory—in this case, the loss of know-how, whether artistic or traditional knowledge immediately replaced by the new, often in the form of information or data.
With all the talk of Hollywood needing to tell more stories of women onscreen, here comes a male filmmaker with a movie that tells of women's lives in a way that has women nodding with recognition.
It is in this first literary record that the famed poet tells of how Circe, the goddess of magic, cautions Odysseus and his crew about the Sirens who inhabit a small island near Scylla and Charybdis.
CreditCreditRyan Pfluger for The New York Times "The Post" tells of the tense days leading up to The Washington Post's decision in 1971 to publish the Pentagon Papers, the government's secret history of the Vietnam War.
McCraw tells of a high-stakes battle with the superlawyer David Boies when the reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey were on the eve of breaking their paradigm-shifting story about the Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.
Ahmed Ag Kaedi, a Tuareg guitarist with a gorgeous fluid tone, tells of having his equipment burned and his family told by jihadists that if they caught up with him, they would cut off his fingers.
Dennis Snelling's compelling biography, "Lefty O'Doul" (University of Nebraska, $27.95), tells of the pitcher who, after a sore arm, became one of baseball's greatest hitters and hitting coaches before helping to establish the game in Japan.
This is certainly suggested by her final novel, "Wise Children," in which a seventy-five-year-old woman, Dora Chance, tells of the life that she and her identical-twin sister had as music-hall artists.
It tells of a feckless mother of four who feeds her offspring a bag of sugar, because there's nothing else in the cupboard, then abandons them outside a pub while she flirts with a man inside.
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But the best tells of all—what really gives away the party's growing sense of hopelessness—are the strange and ill-suited tools Republicans are using to try and yank victory out of the jaws of defeat.
KATHERINE ROOME Greenwich, N.Y. To the Editor: With signature grace and wit, Delia Ephron tells of her hardships with Verizon, which reaps billions in revenues from residential customers but pays little attention to fixing residential service problems.
Facing criticism on the issue, he recorded an ad in which he tells of learning that his 5-year-old son has a chronic disease and says he will force insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions.
In it she tells of being overlooked or underestimated by teachers — despite her formidable talent — and reveals that she was sexually harassed by a figure whom she relied upon for gigs in the small San Francisco scene.
The Woman, after pulling stray words and thoughts together with obvious difficulty, tells of the drowning of her 7-year-old son at play, which she witnessed but — "riveted to the ground…frozen" — was powerless to prevent.
He tells of Russians' dejection as their country's power and prestige plummeted and of their sense of betrayal when NATO advanced eastward, even as Western leaders celebrated the Cold War's end and welcomed Russia as a partner.
In a section that sounds written by Bush himself, and not by Mickey Herskowitz or Karen Hughes, the writer and press secretary he credits, he tells of his feelings about the death of his little sister Robin.
Ms. Carlson was inspired by sheepherding trials and David Wroblewski's "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle," an Oprah book-club pick that is structured like Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and tells of a boy who can hear but not speak.
And while Lucasfilm lore tells of an ancient three-ring binder in which Lucas had plotted out nine (or sometimes twelve) movies, Lucas himself refuted the existence of any real sequel trilogy plot after he filmed the prequels.
In Sunday night's episode, "Ripe," standing before the old hunting shack where Camille had a formative childhood experience, we witness the widening gulf between the hardened story Camille tells of her past — and the actual trauma of it.
" The Gospel of John tells of Jesus exhorting the mob in defense of a prostitute who is about to be stoned to death: "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
A popular subject of painters like Rubens and Rembrandt, the biblical tale tells of two old men who leer at a woman as she bathes, then threaten to blackmail her unless she has sex with both of them.
The film — adapted by Mr. Axelsson and Otto Geir Borg from a novel of the same name (subtitled "A Ghost Story" in one edition) by Yrsa Sigurdardottir — tells of the entwining fates of three victims of acute misfortune.
The memoir — by Charles Blow, an Opinion columnist for The New York Times — tells of a childhood shaped by cycles of violence, a family life of tough love and chronic turbulence, and the lasting wounds of sexual molestation.
"The latest increased tariffs had no doubt been a rude shock for the markets and tells of the unpredictability of this ongoing trade war," wrote Jingyi Pan, a market strategist for IG Group, in a research note Monday.
Max Frankel, a former Times executive editor who earlier was in charge of the Sunday sections, tells of having persuaded him to write a column for the Sunday magazine in addition to his work for the daily paper.
An officer in a Ukrainian unit who goes by the nickname "Granite" tells of meeting in the grey zone an old comrade from his days in the Soviet army who is now on the opposite side of the line.
A Persian tale tells of a 1,000-strong troop of fire-breathing mechanical cavalry, supposedly built for Alexander the Great at the suggestion of his vizier Arastu (Aristotle) and sent into battle against the war elephants ofPorus of India.
If you want a proper spiritual tussle, try " Through a Glass Darkly " (1961), in which Ingmar Bergman, the son of a Lutheran pastor, tells of another young woman with a collapsing mind and a twitching dread of the divine.
Pitzer tells of how, after the First World War, Bavaria's Social Democratic premier, Kurt Eisner, was slow to demand that Germans be released from French and British camps; he wished instead to appeal to the Allies' sense of humanity.
As he narrates revolutions in travel and communication, he tells of the great migrations that transformed the United States, as well as of those forgotten Italian "swallows" who went to and from Buenos Aires every year as seasonal laborers.
An ever-growing body of work that tells of wartime waste, grief and suffering set against the hovering constants of profit and propaganda, his cups have been displayed in several exhibits around the country, especially on the West Coast.
Diana (Gal Gadot), princess of the Amazons, fulfills her superhero destiny — and stars in her first feature film — when a World War I pilot (Chris Pine) crashes on her Mediterranean paradise and tells of conflict in a land beyond.
The as-yet-untitled project is scheduled to begin production July 10 in San Sebastian, in Spain's Basque Country, and, according to production notes, tells of a husband and wife who fall for other people during a film festival.
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In a section about war, Ms Forrest tells of 12 cavalry horses, veterans of the Battle of Waterloo, that were bought at auction by the king's surgeon, who brought them home, operated on them and turned them loose to graze.
A now-infamous story Brad Stone recounts in his book about Amazon, The Everything Store, tells of Jeff Bezos's thuggish behavior toward a startup called Quidsi that was trying to break into the e-commerce business with brands like Diapers.
A new biography of Cowperthwaite by Neil Monnery, a former management consultant, tells of a man who replied to these demands with a qualified "no", and in the process became that most unusual of things: a bureaucrat hero to libertarians.
Based on the novel of the same name by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale tells of a dystopian future in which women are forced into sexual service in order to populate a society suffering from low fertility rates.
Mother American Night, a newly published posthumous memoir cowritten with Robert Greenfield, tells of Barlow's journey from rural, Mormon Wyoming to the virtual domain that he was—in 1990—the first to call cyberspace, after the term from William Gibson's Neuromancer.
Among them: "Caricature of She," which dissects femininity with stylized vamping; "Flight," a kid-friendly sequel to "The Little Prince" told through acrobatics; and "Joey Variations: A Play With Dance," which tells of a troubled contemporary dancer with a secret.
Among them: "Caricature of She," which dissects femininity with stylized vamping; "Flight," a kid-friendly sequel to "The Little Prince," told through acrobatics; and "Joey Variations: A Play With Dance," which tells of a troubled contemporary dancer with a secret.
Its story tells of a sultan, evidently a correlate for Louis XV, who acquires a magic ring that empowers, or compels (the sexual politics here are tricky), vaginas—those bijoux , or jewels—to tell their true histories from within women's underwear.
A 2010 story from the Times of Northwest Indiana tells of how IU marketing director Pat Kraft found a way to make the school's ballooning ODH budget work: Fifth Third Bank sponsored the heads, offsetting nearly all of the cost.
Alas, "Hadrian," which tells of this first-century Roman emperor's love affair with Antinous, a beautiful young Greek man, is an exasperating opera, all the more so because whole stretches of Mr. Wainwright's music are beguiling, inventive and unabashedly romantic.
Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto, "Zama" tells of one Don Diego de Zama (a soulful, funny Daniel Giménez Cacho), an administrator for the Spanish empire who's stationed in a remote Argentine outpost and gradually losing his grip.
In one painful incident, she tells of splurging her student grant money at the beauty parlor in anticipation of a visit from Max, only to receive a last-minute announcement via Skype that he has decided to end their relationship.
Jonathan Van Meter, a contributing editor of Vogue and a friend of Ms. Rivers's, tells of bonding with Amy Schumer because she sees Ms. Rivers as a role model, and together they marveled at how well dressed she always was.
Her latest album, "Lover," has a tune titled "Cornelia Street," which tells of her falling in love there (we see you, Joe Alwyn) and worrying that she'll never be able to come back to the area if the relationship ends.
As he often does, Mr. Chappelle tells of getting booed — this time it was about a show in Cleveland after making a joke about a killer at large there (along with the nearly-as-provocative admission that he's a Warriors fan).
The 15th-century Noh play "Nonomiya," which tells of a ghost who returns to haunt her former lover, inspired Armitage's "You Took a Part of Me," which comes to New York Live Arts after a stint at Japan Society in April.
Mr. Warchus will return to New York this season as the director of the musical "Groundhog Day," which premiered at the Old Vic last summer and tells of a man who finds himself reliving the same day over and over.
It tells of how the impoverished Louise falls into the orbit of the fabulously debauched Lavinia, who adopts her as an instant bestie and gives her clothes, a room, a complete makeover — everything but the keys to Lavinia's family manse.
The best of these, "In the Village," tells of a fragile woman's mental collapse, as seen (and overheard) by her little girl, who confuses "mourning" with "morning" and is haunted for the rest of her life by her mother's scream.
Trilobites There is a story in the Hebrew Bible that tells of God's call for the annihilation of the Canaanites, a people who lived in what are now Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Israel and the Palestinian territories thousands of years ago.
But its fame derives principally from the apocalyptic final book of the New Testament, "Revelation", which tells of "the battle of that great day of God Almighty...And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon".
Barbara Rose describes her life in the 1960s with Frank Stella and Michael Fried, Lucy Lippard talks about her relationship with Eva Hesse, and Fried tells of supporting himself in London by writing a column for Arts Magazine for 75 dollars a month.
" –  Alexander Hamilton ,  Federalist No. 79 TIME OUT:   HOMER COOKING Paris Review : "The  Iliad , attributed to  Homer  (seventh or eighth century B.C., possibly), tells of a dispute during the Trojan War between  Agamemnon , the commander of the Greek forces, and  Achilles , his star warrior.
Oscar Tang, a Chinese-American billionaire and philanthropist, tells of another banquet for fat cats in Beijing, this one hosted earlier this month by Ban Ki-moon, secretary-general of the United Nations, and the C100, a group of prominent Chinese-Americans.
He tells of the time that the actor Michael Crawford and the producer Cameron Mackintosh got out of a London car and started a fistfight on the street because Crawford wanted to use a recording of one of his "Phantom" songs in performance.
The story, set in the present day, and adapted by Justin Haythe from the novel by Jason Matthews, tells of Dominika Egorova (Jennifer Lawrence), a prima ballerina with the Bolshoi, who becomes slightly less prima when another dancer lands on her shin.
Her latest documentary, "Weed the People," also involves the very young; it tells of instances in which medical marijuana was used to fight pediatric cancer, making a case for further research and arguing that legal red tape is preventing potential medical breakthroughs.
The email comes as Biden's campaign is in damage control mode in the aftermath of a report that revealed a story Biden often tells of his time in Afghanistan as vice president seems to be pulled from at least three separate events.
This is not unlike the story that former Pennsylvania Congressman Jason Altmire tells of how party operatives and primary voters penalize rather than reward members of Congress who cross party lines, even those representing — like Van Drew and Altmire — very purple districts.
Inspired by Mr. Nafar's life and written with the Israeli-born screenwriter Oren Moverman ("The Messenger"), "Junction 48" tells of an emerging rap artist, Kareem, who has issues with his family and confrontations with rival Jewish rappers, and experiences a political awakening.
Diana Prince, born on the all-female island of Themyscira, is trained as an Amazon warrior, and first sees a man when an American pilot, Steve Trevor (played by Chris Pine) crash-lands on the island and tells of a world at war.
The Carpetbagger The runaway charmer of this year's awards race is Brooklynn Prince, the precocious 7-year-old star of "The Florida Project," which tells of a little girl, Moonee, living a hardscrabble life with her mother, Halley, in an Orlando-area motel.
The World the Children Made, by James Earl Cox III, is based on Ray Bradbury's short story The Veldt, and it tells of a family in the near future who have just installed in their home a virtual reality game machine called "The Nursery".
" Then, "Dichterliebe" continues, followed by another grim, restless Foccroulle song, "I walk in the dark to a tree," which tells of ominous men in black suits who lay down a woman in wedding clothes and spread her hair out in a "ring of flames.
Your work tells of a campaign so determined to conceal their corrupt use of foreign help that they risked going to jail by lying to you, to the FBI and to Congress about it and, indeed, some have gone to jail over such lies.
Yet the play of emotions on Macdonald's face tells of worries and wounds much deeper than anything that can be accounted for in the script, and it will take more than a jigsaw, I reckon, even a thousand-piece whopper, to free this woman's soul.
The game's press information tells of a lonely robot that you'll meet and befriend, but there's no time for that in my Rezzed demo, only death, followed by success, followed by death, and success, repeated across a series of brain-tickling teasers of macabre design.
PICK UP IN DAYLIGHT Diana M. Hechler, president of D. Tours Travel, tells of clients who arrived in the evening at the airport in St. Lucia, in the Caribbean, to discover that their reserved rental car had a missing taillight and other safety problems.
Her graphic novel "Chronicles of a Survivor" tells of her struggle with post-traumatic stress, depicting it as a crushing black ball, far larger than she is, that waits for her when she wakes up in the morning and weighs her down, day after day.
Exploring the history and science of psychedelics, he tells of the rise and fall and rise again of our societal interest in these drugs, which are now thought to have many benefits, from helping with addiction to easing the terror of the terminally ill.
In the titular story, two lovers get separated in a parallel dimension; the second story tells of a technician stranded in space, with someone else's memories as his only company; the last recounts a community preparing for a prophecy that may lead to its destruction.
PARIS — In a book just published, "The World As It Is," Barack Obama's former deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes, tells of a tear in Angela Merkel's eye as she bade farewell to the departing American president for the final time in Berlin on Nov.
LYDIA AUDIBERT you forgot the greatest, the visionary one, the one that tells of basics and essentials of life I mean "the beasts of the southern wild" MICHIEL JANSEN-DINGS Boyhood: it got a lot of good press, but was only a mediocre film.
She recounts afternoons spent sprawled on the floor blaring Salt-N-Pepa and Boyz II Men cassette tapes over and over on her "sunflower-yellow boom box" and tells of mornings spent "roller skating round the smooth, deserted streets" warbling Cole Porter's "Don't Fence Me In".
And it made me wonder if one of the tells of an unsuccessful pretentious science fiction film is that it seems really artful and deep, but then there's this incredibly clunky exposition, because that's something they don't bother to do in an organic or interesting way.
The stone's strange texture tells of an ancient seabed—and also of a trade-off between a weekly newspaper that had improbably decided to become a property developer and two bold young people who were in the process of creating a soon-to-be notorious architectural style.
Feek's latest blog post on This Life I Live tells of how he and Carnahan, who is also his cousin, have not just shared many of the same ups and downs from the time they were children, but how closely Feek's life really has paralleled Carnahan's.
The film "tells of a sensitive child growing up with a beloved father (Maurice Benard) she worried about constantly; the tragedy of her younger brother's death; and her turbulent romance, forbidden by her father, with the man who later became her husband," states the official synopsis.
The shots are rife with the genre's archetypal motifs — horses, trains, buttes — and the quiet stories she tells, of lonesome, seminomadic searchers struggling to maintain dignity in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, fill the screen as forcefully as any film that John Wayne was ever in.
Written by the composer Terence Blanchard and the librettist Kasi Lemmons, from a memoir by Charles M. Blow (an Opinion columnist for The New York Times), this opera tells of a childhood shaped by cycles of violence, tough motherly love and the lasting wounds of sexual abuse.
In this documentary from the Canadian director Barry Avrich, he tells of how he emigrated to the United States from the tumult of Eastern Europe in the 1920s as a child and grew to become the chief prosecutor in the Einsatzgruppen case at the Nuremberg trials.
Thanks to our wonderful co-sponsor... Canopy NWA's outreach coordinator Lauren Snodgrass tells of how the group started organically in 2015, when a bunch of local conversations about the global refugee crisis metastasized into a plan to actually build an agency and start resettling refugees themselves.
His voice is heavy as he tells of Freddy, 12, a black tuxedo; Miss Kitty, 10, also a black tuxedo; Mr. Meow Meow, the blue-eyed Siamese; Smoky Joe, 2, a black Russian mix; and his baby – Angel, the 7 month-old Siamese mix that saved his life.
It's OK to laugh In my book, "A Beginner's Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death," someone tells of their stepfather wearing a shirt that read, "I'm so old I can't find my own nuts," with a doodle of a squirrel on it.
He tells of how playing in New York made him a "nervous wreck"; of how after winning one title there, he and his players celebrated at the Copacabana nightclub; of the joy he felt in that moment, after capturing another championship, when Mikan lifted him onto his shoulders.
The screenplay, by Robert Towne, tells of two petty officers (Jack Nicholson and Otis Young) who are ordered to transport a lumbering sailor (Randy Quaid) from Norfolk, Virginia, to Maine, where he will serve eight years in the brig for trying to steal forty bucks from a charity box.
With a German libretto, Goldmark's absorbing, if unabashedly melodramatic, opera tells of a love triangle at the palace of King Solomon between Sulamith, the daughter of a high priest; her fiancé, Assad; and the Queen of Sheba, under whose spell Assad falls while on a mission for Solomon.
Long before the recent success of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan tetralogy, which tells of the complex, often vexed, lifelong friendship between two women, Messud was narrating these stories with an unusual intensity — and quietly making a case for women's interiority as a subject worthy of the most serious examination.
The film, written by Mr. Bong and Jon Ronson and starring Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal and Paul Dano, tells of the tweenage Mija, an orphan who lives with her grandfather and her best friend, Okja, a six-ton genetically engineered pig, on a verdant mountaintop in South Korea.
Though the record at times flirts with space opera-like motifs—"The Tracers" tells of an evolved version of humans who've come to rescue Earthlings, for example— Call the Comet is less a fantasyland or sci-fi backdrop than Marr's own magic realism—the happy place he's created inside his head.
As Pan tells of being born to a human-seeming mother and her husband, Hermes, the messenger god, the slapstick comedy begins: The midwife is horrified by the baby's appearance and flees the premises, but Hermes is "so excited he flew right through the roof" to tell Papa Zeus the news.
Like much prior literature in this vein, McDonell's book recalls his own firsthand experiences, as he recounts his interactions through "fixers" with ordinary people in one scene, and then tells of jumping a helicopter to an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan to observe American forces target and kill an enemy.
Public relations firms — which have been charging their mid-size tech clients anywhere from $15,000 to $50,000 a month — may also feel the sting soon, says a separate source who asked not to be named but tells of at least one name-brand PR firm that recently lowered its retainer.
Other versatile cast members also sang multiple smaller roles, including Alfred Walker as the memory vendor and a mysterious man in a helmet; Rebecca Jo Loeb as the young boy and a bellhop; and Tichina Vaughn as an ominous palm reader who tells of the past rather than predicting the future.
In truth, these rivers are interconnected, each part making its contribution to the whole, said John Barry, whose 2500 book "Rising Tide" tells of the great flood of 242 and the history of trying to tame the Mississippi River and its tributaries, which include the Illinois, the Missouri and the Arkansas.
It brings you inside the mechanism of fame that has produced America's most important writers since World War II. It tells of their struggles and triumphs, the lasting impression the Iowa Writers' Workshop forever left on them, and the influence they had on the world's most powerful creative writing program.
In that religion, as depicted both on Game of Thrones and in the books on which it's based, there's a prophecy called "The Prince That Was Promised" that tells of a savior (who will be the reincarnated hero Azor Ahai) who will save the living from the Long Night, a.k.a.
Filmed quietly in New York in June, the movie tells of a successful, emotionally lost television writer, played by Louis C.K., who is dealing — except he's not dealing — with the seduction of his 17-year-old daughter by an esteemed filmmaker, and rumored pedophile, who is four times her age.
It is not uncommon to hear rags-to-riches stories, such as that of B. R. Shetty, who tells of arriving in the Emirates, in 1973, as a young pharmacist with "a mere couple of dollars," and is now the billionaire owner of one of the largest Emirati health-care firms.
When she tells of teaching a class inside San Quentin prison, where she was forced to confront her own biases, or recounts conversations with her children about prejudice, we glimpse what it's like to be her: a scholar of race who is still sometimes taken aback by its pervasiveness and power.
Along the way, he also tells of the three-month ordeal, while preparing a manuscript for his book publisher, involved in trying his hand at the sort of no-stone-unturned verification he relied on at The New Yorker — an essential skill for today's writers of non-fake news, however sweat-inducing.
Rothalso liked to play with the line between real and imagined history; in 2004's The Plot Against America, FDR is defeated in the 1940 presidential election by Charles Lindbergh, and Roth (as his own fictional narrator) tells of a growing anti-Semitism and Nazi infiltration of America under the Lindbergh administration.
In her 2015 Modern Love essay "When the Doorman Is Your Main Man," the writer Julie Margaret Hogben tells of a time in her life when she was dating in New York City and living in a building where the doorman, Guzim, felt obliged to protect her from men he deemed unsuitable.
His most famous book, "The Man Who Walked Between the Towers" (803), which won the Caldecott Medal, tells of the breathtaking moment in 280 when Philippe Petit, the French high-wire artist, secretly strung a cable between the twin towers of the World Trade Center and walked — and also danced and pranced — across.
"Dimitrij," which tells of the first pretender to the throne in Russia after the death of Czar Boris Godunov, picks up where Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunov" leaves off, though it's highly unlikely that Dvorak or his librettist, Marie Cervinkova-Riegrova, knew that earlier opera, which was not produced outside Russia until the 20th century.
Nobody who saw his début feature, " The Return " (2003), will forget the opening minutes, in which a boy is left stranded and shivering on a tall platform above the sea; the rest of that movie tells of his vanished father, who turns up as a near-stranger and struggles to reconnect with his sons.
In "Vertigo," she tells of initially writing in her diary almost nothing of the crises swirling around her — her sister's suicide (in 1984), her mother's shock treatments for depression, her father's anger at her for not being emotionally available during these traumatic events, and her own fainting spells, which she detailed in the book.
Author and University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor Jennine Capó Crucet was at the university as part of a book series for first-year students, according to student newspaper The George-Anne, discussing her novel "Make Your Home Among Strangers," which tells of a poor Latina girl who's accepted to a selective college in New York.

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