From the perspective of Arthur, perhaps the most significant effect of this great outpouring of new Arthurian story was on the role of the king himself: much of this 12th-century and later Arthurian literature centres less on Arthur himself than on characters such as Lancelot and Guenevere, Perceval, Galahad, Gawain, and Tristan and Isolde.

Inspired by the basic scenario of David Pinner's 1967 novel Ritual, the story centres on the visit of Police Sergeant Neil Howie to the isolated island of Summerisle, in search of a missing girl the locals claim never existed.

The story centres on Bond's investigation into the disappearance in Jamaica of a fellow MI6 operative, Commander John Strangways and his secretary, Mary Trueblood.

The story centres on a duckling that is mistreated until it becomes evident he is a swan and is accepted into the habitat.

The story centres on a plot by SMERSH, the Soviet counterintelligence agency, to assassinate Bond in such a way as to discredit both him and his organisation, the Secret Service.

J. G. Ballard's short story The Lost Leonardo, published in The Terminal Beach ( 1964 ), centres on a search for the Wandering Jew.

The story centres around John Keats first visit to see the Elgin Marbles, as the guest of Haydon, where they unexpectedly encounter the Greek gods Athena, Hephaestus, and Apollo.

Here Wong planned to call it Three Stories About Food, but saw it better to settle for only one story, A Story About Food, that centres on a writer.

In this adaptation ( based on the 1997 film, not the 1992 book ), the action is moved from London to Boston, the focus of the protagonist's obsession is shifted from football to baseball, and the story centres on the 2004 Boston Red Sox season, which culminated with the team's first Major League Baseball World Series victory in 86 years.

The story centres on the theft of two atomic bombs by the crime syndicate SPECTRE and the subsequent attempted blackmail of the Western powers for their return.

The story centres around Hitoshi Kōbe, a guy who is neither academically gifted nor good at sports, so he does not do very well at school.

The story centres on the widely made claim that, when numerised ( i. e., when those letters in the ' title ' that have roman numeral value are added together ), they produce the number 666, described in the Book of Revelation as the number of the Beast ( the Antichrist ) which wears multiple crowns identified by some as the triple tiara ).

The story centres on Croft's search for information about her mother's disappearance.

Set in nineteenth-century England, the story centres around the fictional " Waterloo " tontine, established to benefit veterans of the Napoleonic wars.

The story centres on Bond's ongoing search to find Ernst Stavro Blofeld after the Thunderball incident ; thorough contact with the College of Arms in London Bond finds Blofeld based in Switzerland.

The story centres on Ximen Qing ( 西門慶 ), a corrupt social climber and lustful merchant who is wealthy enough to marry a consort of six wives and concubines.

Enrique Amorim ( July 25, 1900 – July 28, 1960 ) was an Uruguayan novelist and writer, best known for his story Las quitanderas whose plot centres on rural prostitution ; also known for his left-wing politics.

It starred David Morrissey, John Simm, Kelly Macdonald, Polly Walker, Bill Nighy, and James McAvoy, telling the story of a newspaper's investigation into the death of a young woman, and centres on the relationship between the leading journalist and his old friend, who is a Member of Parliament and the murdered woman's employer.

The story itself centres on Volk taking part in a fictitious, 10th anniversary edition of Ghostwatch in 2002.

A campaign, comprising 21 of these missions played in sequence, centres around a story about a Space Marine investigation of a distress beacon in a region of space threatened by Genestealers.

The story centres around astronaut Jerry Linenger and the events on the Shuttle and Mir Space Programme in 1997.

The story centres around a small rural town whose wine industry is being plagued by grubs in the soil.

The story centres on the character Anodos (" pathless " or " ascent " in Greek ) and takes its inspiration from German Romanticism, particularly Novalis.

The story centres on Gabriel Conroy on the night of the Morkan sisters ' annual dance and dinner in the first week of January 1904, perhaps the Feast of the Epiphany ( January 6 ).

It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.

Even on the fictional level, however, the contradictions which give rise to the mystery story are not fully resolved.

In the American `` hardboiled '' detective story of the '20s and '30s, the spirit of the mad genius from Baker Street lives on.

He took the story of the pound of flesh and had to fasten it on someone.

The story ends in the child's illness and delirium brought on by the feverish compulsion to ride his horse to win for his mother.

But on one occasion when I encountered a similar fantasy in a little boy who was my patient I began to understand the uncanny effects of this story.

And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.

and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '', felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.

After almost everyone had gone he told me the simple story of how one of his neighbors had moved a fence a few feet over on his land.

The story opens on the eve of his fifty-third birthday, as he prepares for the two weeks of festivities that are to follow.

There is a humorous but revealing story about a rancher who owned a large slice of Texas and who wanted to have on it everything that was necessary for a completely pleasant community.

But because it was a suspense gangster story of the Capone era, many of us felt that it might catch on for a run in Chicago, continue as a road company, and eventually become a movie.

If I could call in, they could check the story while we were on our way.

If you're really serious about working on that story, I'd better take you home ''.

`` When you pile your `` guy '' on the bonfire tomorrow night, I wonder how much of the true story of Guy Fawkes you will remember??

As Origen interprets the end of history on the basis of its beginning, so Irenaeus portrays the story of Adam on the basis of the story of Christ.

All this near tragedy, which to us borders on comedy, enables us to tell the story over and over again, always warming ourselves with a glow of complacency.

Hendricks' story was designed for children and he had a small audience of small children right on stage with him.

If she'd kept on as she'd been going, the story I'd told Gladdy would probably have been true by now, anyhow

`` I heard a story once about a rookie who got excited when the captain stepped outside and he couldn't get an encephalographic reading on him.