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King Lear is also a literary variant of a common fairy tale, Love Like Salt, Aarne-Thompson type 923, in which a father rejects his youngest daughter for a statement of her love that does not please him.
Like his father before him, Tomar-Tu recently took the position of archivist superior, filing every tale as it comes in.
During the Canaries expedition, to beguile the tedium of his voyage, he composed his prose tale of Rosalynde, Euphues Golden Legacie, which, printed in 1590, afterwards furnished the story of Shakespeare's As You Like It.
Like Jurassic Park, the novel serves as a cautionary tale about developments in science and technology ; in this case, nanotechnology, genetic engineering and artificial intelligence.
His second project, Some Like It Cool ( 1961 ), is the tale of a young woman who introduces her prudish husband and in-laws to the joys of nudism.
Like many stories of this sort, Saffredent ’ s tale deals with the theme of cuckoldry and depends on both dramatic irony and situational irony for its plot and effects.
Like Cervantes ' tale Don Quixote, Fortunatus is a tale which marks the passing of the feudal world into the more modern, globalised, capitalist world.
Like many other folk tales frequently adapted for children, the original tale is darker and more violent than the more familiar bowdlerised versions.
Daniel Mendelsohn of the New York Times opines derisively that " Like its predecessors, Glamorama is meant to be a withering report on the soul-destroying emptiness of late-century American consumer culture, chichi downtown division ; but the only lesson you're likely to take away from it is the even more depressing classic American morality tale about how premature stardom is more of a curse than a blessing for young writers.
In both Sir Launfal and Libeaus Desconus, story elements from more than one romance have been stitched together to make the tale as a whole, and some allusions to his sources are very condensed .” Like many Middle English poets working with older material, he shows a preference to reduce moral ambiguity and to avoid any great agonising over love.
Like many of the tales told by the pilgrims, The Second Nun's tale incorporates elements from Dante.
Like Father Hoyt, the Consul tells another tale before his own.
Like many of the radio plays, fairy tale adaptation and calendar pages that Eich also wrote he never tried to ' make a career ' out of it.
Like a folk tale.
The tale of a British deserter in China at the time of the Cultural Revolution, Something Like A House won critical praise and went on to win both the James Tait Black Award and the Whitbread First Novel Award.
Like Lamia though, he has the tell tale characteristics of his species with red sclera, telepathic communication, and, of course, the ability to take on different fighting forms.

Like and introduction
Like any dog, dachshunds need a proper introduction at a young age.
* The film inspired The Divine Comedy's Becoming More Like Alfie, which samples its opening dialogue in its introduction.
Like many Vermont communities, the town's economy prospered with the introduction of Merino sheep in the early nineteenth century.
Like all Canadian banks, they endured criticism of its credit policies and resisted the introduction of a central bank to control the money supply and advise on fiscal policy.
Like other preparatory schools, its purpose was to train pupils to do well enough in the examinations ( usually taken around the age of 13 ) to gain admission to leading public schools, and to provide an introduction to boarding school life.
Like the Silly Wizard version, the music for the closing credits also featured a drum roll introduction.
Like most invasive plants, once it has an introduction into a new location, it persists and spreads into undisturbed plant communities.
Like Secret Wars, the Unity crossover had lasting effects on the Valiant universe most notably the introduction of Turok, the birth of Magnus Robot Fighter and the death of a major Valiant hero.
Sugarland performed their country crossover single " Stuck Like Glue ", after an introduction by supermodel Marisa Miller and Jennifer Nettles ' brother, a member of the Air Force.
Like other bows, they lost importance with the introduction and increasing accuracy of guns.
Like his predecessor Secretary Lyman Gage, Shaw firmly believed that the Treasury should serve the money market in times of difficulty through the introduction of Treasury funds.
Like its predecessor-The Modern Antiquarian-the book is split into a shorter, discursive introduction with the bulk of the text being a gazetteer of sites.
Like the Second Waltz, the Fourth uses an introduction and coda which do not stick to the basic key.
Like many of the director's works, the film does not follow the narrative arc of conventional cinema, with an introduction, conflict and resolution.
A quote from the script ( as spoken by Gainsbourg in the film ) is featured in the introduction to the 2001 Madonna song " What It Feels Like for a Girl ".
Although heavily played down, they received a large amount of press attention for being the first band to walk off the TV show Top of the Pops after host Richard Bacon allegedly insulted their physiques ( calling them " a big fat melting pot of talent " in their introduction ) shortly before they were due to appear on the show to promote their single " Love Me Like You ".
D. C. Browning's introduction to the 1957 Everyman's edition says " Like most sequels, it has been compared unfavourably with its parent story, but it was only a little less celebrated than Three Men in a Boat and was for long used as a school book in Germany.
Like the regular Haunted Mansions, only the introduction of the ride ( the stretching room ) takes place in the actual Mansion.
The piano introduction was later used by Bob Dylan for his song " Temporary Like Achilles ".
Like many other regions that had experienced area code changes during the area code boom of the 1990s, both 559 and 209 were in the early planning stages of relief, potentially creating the need for introduction of further new area codes.
* New introduction to Biko's I Write What I Like, by Lewis Gordon, 2007
Kelly remained silent after his wife's death in March 2005, but then Exile Editions then re printed " A Dream Like Mine " in its Canadian Classics series with an introduction by native writer Daniel David Moses.
Guy Vanderhaeghe, in his introduction to The Wars in Penguin's Modern Classics 2005 edition, states that " Like the frieze of horse and dog, or the occasional glimpse of Harris's blue scarf, the wars ( emphasis in original ) hovers in the reader's consciousness, heard as the faintest of dire whispers.

Like and fourth
Like their Greek predecessors, classical Latin poets avoided a large number of word breaks at the ends of foot divisions except between the fourth and fifth, where it was encouraged.
Like all pterosaurs, the wings of Pterodactylus were formed by a skin and muscle membrane stretching from its elongated fourth finger to its hind limbs.
Like many other Roman towns however, Winchester began to decline in the later fourth century.
The song's meter allows it to be sung to a number of popular tunes including: " Amazing Grace "; " Greensleeves "; " The House of the Rising Sun "; " The Rising of the Moon / Wearing of the Green "; Beethoven's " Ode to Joy " ( in his Ninth Symphony, fourth movement ); " Oh My Darling, Clementine "; " Semper Paratus "; " The Marine Corps Hymn "; " The Yellow Rose of Texas "; " I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing "; " Ghost Riders in the Sky "; " Acres of Clams ", and the theme song from the TV show Gilligan's Island.
The first appearance of a yellow Smithers was " There's No Disgrace Like Home ", the fourth episode of the first season.
A fourth single, " Be Like That " was re-recorded for the 2001 film American Pie 2, with alternate lyrics for the first 3 lines.
Wells also used the concept of parallel universes as a consequence of time as the fourth dimension in stories like The Wonderful Visit and Men Like Gods, an idea proposed by the astronomer Simon Newcomb, who talked about both time and parallel universes ; " Add a fourth dimension to space, and there is room for an indefinite number of universes, all alongside of each other, as there is for an indefinite number of sheets of paper when we pile them upon each other ".
Like the fourth dimension of H. G. Wells ’ " Time Traveller ", these extra dimensions can be traveled by persons using the right equipment.
Like all Soviet-legacy tanks, the T-72's design has traded off interior space in return for a very small silhouette and efficient use of armour, to the point of replacing the fourth crewman with a mechanical loader.
In 2000, his fourth album, Like Water for Chocolate, was released to mass critical acclaim.
" There's No Disgrace Like Home " is the fourth episode of The Simpsons < nowiki >'</ nowiki > first season.
Like the fourth section, it can be seen as an addition to the first three fundamental sections.
The tour was launched in support of her fourth studio album, Like a Prayer, and the soundtrack, I'm Breathless.
Originally to be called the " Like a Prayer World Tour ", Sire Records announced the Blond Ambition World Tour in November 1989, following the success of Madonna's fourth studio album, Like a Prayer, and Madonna's performance of " Express Yourself " at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards-considered as a tour preview.
The following year, the band released the fourth album, A Moment Like The Longest Day.
Like Orpheus for the Classic World of Darkness, each of these " fourth games " will have a limited series of approximately six books, including the core rulebook.
Like The Move's second, third and fourth albums, Wizzard's debut album, Wizzard Brew, contained none of the hit singles, choosing instead to focus on lengthy saxophone improvisations, jazz-flavoured jam sessions and even a military-style brass band number.
The first season finale " I Love Lacey " takes place during the Grey Cup in November, the third season episode " Merry Gasmas " takes place at Christmas time, the fourth season episode " Hair Comes the Judge " takes place in August, and the fifth season episode " No Time Like the Presents " takes place in July.
Like Boris Badenov in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, Sneekly / Hooded Claw would break the " fourth wall " by at times directly addressing the narrator as the narrator was revealing the crime to the audience, defeating the surprise the Claw was about to spring.
The fourth and final single was the ballad " Nothing Like the Rain " which was not quite as successful and did not even receive a UK release.
One year later, Tippin released his fourth album, Lookin ' Back at Myself, which produced the No. 15 " I Got It Honest " and the minor Top 40 " She Feels Like a Brand New Man Tonight ".
Like the recap page, " Dear Deadpool " is often comical and has Deadpool breaking the fourth wall.

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