Just like the previous three novellas, Lauretta's tale tells of one person censuring another in a clever way.

In the words of Hal Erickson, " Irving plays the leading character in a lady-or-the-tiger fashion, so that we never know if she truly swallows her own tale or if she's merely a clever charlatan.

The tale is set during the reign of King Arthur and tells of a young Cornish farmer's son named Jack who is not only strong but so clever he easily confounds the learned with his penetrating wit.

Saxo follows with a tale of a lush who saved himself from death with clever excuses and finally convinced Snow to rescind those laws.

Catholic News Services Harry Forbes wrote, " Boyle's offbeat tale — with a clever script by Frank Cottrell Boyce — features good performances all around, especially by the remarkable Etel, who displays just the right innocence and religious fervor in delightful vignettes with the saints.

Revich provides a delightful and colorful tale, full of heroes and villains, and clever youths whose courage and resourcefulness save the day.

In at least one version of this tale, Brian is the clever and subtle one, while his brothers Iuchar and Iucharba are bumbling and easily overawed by Brian.

In at least one version of this tale, Brian is the clever and subtle one, while his brothers Iuchar and Iucharba are bumbling and easily overawed by Brian.

When Harry Bailly, the host, asks the Canon for a tale, his yeoman chips in to announce how clever his master is, saying:

Over the years some clever skeptic of this story referred to Coghlan ’ s casket as the “ homing coffin ” The genesis of the Canadian fishermen tale appears to have come from a 1929 Ripley's Believe It Or Not!

This originates in their similar train-based settings, and in the recurrence of two of the earlier film's character types in the two leads: the clever young woman in distress and eccentric upper-class Englishman.

" While Sakharov strongly disagreed with Teller over nuclear testing in the atmosphere and Strategic Defense Initiative, he believed that American academics had been unfair to Teller ’ s resolve to get the H-bomb for the United States since " all steps by the Americans of a temporary or permanent rejection of developing thermonuclear weapons would have been seen either as a clever feint, or as the manifestation of stupidity.

These machines caused a stir in the industry with their compact dark grey cases, built-in trackball, and the clever positioning of the keyboard which left room for palmrests on either side of the pointing device.

Collimation is done either with a collimator ( basically, a long tube ) or with a clever arrangement of gently curved mirrors.

Most of the clever young men of the brilliant generation of 1830 passed under his influence ; and, while he pleased the Romanticists by his frank appreciation of the beauties of English, German, Italian, and Spanish poetry, he did not decry the classics — either the classics proper of Greece and Rome or the so-called classics of France.

He has commented on The Troubles in Northern Ireland, stating that he believes both Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness to be very clever men, but also that he does not trust either of them as he believes Adams looks like a deputy headmaster and McGuinness looks like a clown without make-up.

He is said to have commented: " Hunt has proved on a few occasions that he's a clever type, and his challenge on Nick Montgomery earlier in the game wasn't clever either ".

Through some clever political moves by the Liberal members of the committee, it beat out John Diefenbaker's flag ( a combination of fleurs-de-lis, a maple leaf and the Union Flag ), as well as the Pearson Pennant ( three red leaves conjoined on a stem set against a white background with blue bars on either side ).

However, Linus often defuses Lucy's temper through passive resistance and clever use of his intellect, either logically talking Lucy out of hitting him or confusing her into submission.

He also sides with his older brother Elemak against Nafai, though he is considerably less clever than either.

A hypocritical and seemingly superficial man, Mitică expresses himself through either platitudes or clichés he believes are clever, and, illustrating a tendency Caragiale first recorded in his Moftul Român, quickly dismisses all important things he is confronted with.

The words were either based on a poem written for this anniversary or were credited to Luther as a clever marketing gimmick.

Since the pieces primarily connect with hinges, building a rigid structure takes some work, either by clever geometry or socketing together smaller polyhedra.

In a clever twist, the researchers told participants they would be randomly chosen to be either the person making the offer or the person responding to it.

Characterizing Moe and Curly as wiseguy tricksters fails because the writers were unable to make them either tricky or clever liars.

* Red Robes play, thus their leader is often either clever or lucky-or both ;

He is well known as the lover of Aphrodite, the goddess of love who was married to Hephaestus, god of craftsmanship, but the most famous story involving the couple shows them exposed to ridicule through the wronged husband's clever device.

Each story has its clever hero, its " fairy godmother ", and obstacles and hindrances to the hero's rise.

My friend who wrote the story of the Water Baby was a very kind man and very clever.

It tells a story about Anansi being lazy yet clever, using flattery to trick some crows into shaking loose ripe mangoes from his mango tree for Anansi to enjoy without having to pick them himself.

The London Express claimed that this realism is what makes the book appealing: “ It is a cruel, merciless story, intensely clever in its realism, and one that will remain impressed in the memory of the reader for many a long day ”.

Nicholas Meyer has deftly juxtaposed Victorian England and contemporary America in a clever story, irresistible due to the competence of its cast.

They then get into an argument about who is cuter, ( by comparing themselves with Mary and Rhoda ) and who would be clever enough to think of as a better story of inventing of Post-it notes in the reunion, and their friendship dissolves.

The clever solutions MacGyver implemented to seemingly unsolvable problems – often in life-or-death situations requiring him to improvise complex devices in a matter of minutes – were a major attraction of the show, which was praised for generating interest in the applied sciences, particularly engineering, and for providing entertaining story lines.

It is, too, a very clever story, with clues and red herrings falling thick and fast.

The mission to Moscow, the Czar's immense gold treasure, the intrigues and passions surrounding the capture of the royal family, and the devilishly clever ruse the English naval officer uses to get both revenge and a final airing of his story are all revealed in rococo detail.

It has been described by Henry Sutton of the Daily Mirror as " My top tip for 2012's runaway success, with a very clever twist on the age old story of boy meets girl.

As so often in his writings, the story abounds in clever references and subtle jokes.

Mrs. Christie has certainly succeeded in writing a story not only entertaining, but ingenious and amazingly clever.

Anansi's enemies are based on an ancient legend ; the story, as told by Anansi, was that a clever Spider wanted to be able to tell stories, the " Sky Spirit " king of all the lands, agreed to give the spider what he wanted if he captured three trouble-makers: Onini the Python, Osebo the Leopard, and the Mmoboro Hornet.

In contrasting reviews, Film Threats Chris Gore said of the film, " delivers everything great foreign films should-action, sex, compelling characters, clever filmmaking, it's unpretentious ( a requirement for me ) and it has a story you can follow without having to read those annoying subtitles.

The husband's initial antagonistic behavior cues the gender moral of the story: constantly demeaning a clever wife can be dangerous.

" His articles ranged from one on the Comics Code for Better Homes and Gardens to an article entitled " How Ralph Edwards Fools ' Em " for which he " accompanied Edwards on several This is Your Life escapades to get the story of how the clever impressario suckered the celebrities whom he was to honor on his popular ' 50s show.

As the story unfolds between harrowing war scenes and more personable ones such as Orr and Yossarian meeting prostitutes in Rome, Orr more and more enunciates his guile and clever techniques to move toward his freedom from war.

The power of the story comes from the clever intertwining of the different narrative strands as the reader is sucked into the vortex of Hope's complex world.

In 1863 he wrote a clever short story, combining physiological and psychological problems, entitled " The Case of George Dedlow ", in the Atlantic Monthly.

MTV Geek largely panned the opening issue, giving it a score of 10 / 52 and saying " Grifter feels like a series of sort of clever action beats that never got put together as a proper story ".

But if the story is a clever sitcomy contraption, the dialogue is pedestrian.

As the story unfolds, young Prince Cusar and his clever friend Issac join a Khazarian expedition to the frontiers of the kingdom, with quite unexpected results.

To get away from her home town, Valenda, and its ugly memories she sets out on a religious pilgrimage with the dy Gura brothers ( also minor characters from the earlier story ) for protection ; Liss, a feisty and clever courier girl ; and dy Cabon, a plump priest of the Bastard ( one of the five gods ) as her ' spiritual guide '.