The complexities of Venetian politics eluded him, but the story of the revolution itself is told in restrained measures, with no superfluous passages and only an occasional overemphasis of the part played by its leading figure.

One well-known story ( quoted in Berry, page 261 ) was that he saw the change of direction of a wind vane on a boat on the Thames, caused not by an alteration of the wind itself, but by a change of course of the boat relative to the wind direction.

1958 was a watershed year not just for the Bigfoot story itself but also for the culture that surrounds it.

In any case, the necklace given to Beowulf in the story is not the Brísingamen itself ; it is only being compared to it.

That is, while the events may not be historically accurate the book itself was written to tell a story of a time in history, in this case the origin of the Jewish holiday of Purim.

In the story, a machine is designed, the sole purpose of which is to find metal to produce copies of itself, intended to be used as a weapon against an enemy's war machines.

With the advent of the World Wide Web and other multimedia technologies, bands such as The Smashing Pumpkins ( with the album Machina / The Machines of God ), Coheed And Cambria ( with the Amory Wars as a backing story for every one of their albums ), and Nine Inch Nails ( with the album Year Zero ) exploited emergent cultural phenomena such as the alternate reality game to provide additional web-based content beyond that on the album itself.

By 1912 and 1913, there are beginning to be many films from many American companies that rely on applying novel decoration to the story, rather than supplying any twists to the drama itself to sustain interest.

Shortly after Matilda meets the Countess the Castle of Wolfenbach itself is destroyed in a fire, mirroring the destruction of the Count's attempts to keep his wife a secret and how his plots throughout the story eventually lead to his own destruction.

The same year her first story (" The Lucky Ones ") was published in the November 16, 1946 issue of The New Yorker, and credited to " Alice Bradley " in the magazine itself, but to " Alice Bradley Sheldon " in the magazine's DVD index.

The title of the short story itself reflects the idea that women are invisible during Sheldon ’ s time.

Believers in the Loch Ness Monster often point to this story, which notably takes place on the River Ness rather than the loch itself, as evidence for the creature's existence as early as the 6th century.

This is especially apparent when a news organization is reporting a story with some relevancy to the news organization itself or to its ownership individuals or conglomerate.

According to Mahabharata itself, Vaisampayana's Bharata expanded on the story, with Vyasa's Jaya embedded within it.

Narrative criticism focuses on the story itself and how the construction of the narrative directs the interpretation of the situation.

Orson Scott Card, an author of both science fiction and non-SF fiction, has postulated that in science fiction the message and intellectual significance of the work is contained within the story itself and, therefore, there need not be stylistic gimmicks or literary games ; but that many writers and critics confuse clarity of language with lack of artistic merit.

This plays itself out over a second plot element, a thriller style story concerning the shadowy ' Big Six ' organization.

The story is told of the lion whose cubs are born dead and receive life when the old lion breathes upon them, and of the phœnix which burns itself to death and rises on the third day from the ashes ; both are taken as types of Christ.

Samuels created the title The Day After to emphasize that the story was not to be about a nuclear war itself but the aftermath.

The Vampyre was itself based on Lord Byron's unfinished story " Fragment of a Novel ", also known as " The Burial: A Fragment ", published in 1819.

This sub-plot has an obvious similarity to the story of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and even more so, perhaps, to subsequent film adaptations of the novel ( the novel itself does not present electricity as Frankenstein's means of creating the monster.

* Back to the future: the story of Squeak, a practical Smalltalk written in itself

The story of the eponymous character is taken from medieval German romance, notably the Parzival of Wolfram von Eschenbach and its sequel, Lohengrin, written by a different author, itself inspired by the epic of Garin le Loherain.

This story suffers not only from a lack of evidence, but the fact that in 1860 the typewriter itself had yet to emerge.

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.

Though Le Fanu portrays his vampire's sexuality with the circumspection that one would expect for his time, it is evident that lesbian attraction is the main dynamic between Carmilla and the narrator of the story:

This portrays the story of a disputation between Saint Dominic and the Cathars ( Albigensians ), in which the books of both were thrown on a fire and St. Dominic's books were miraculously preserved from the flames.

* A Vietnamese mythological story portrays the rabbit of innocence and youthfulness.

Brent Spiner portrays the android Data ; rumors before the film's release suggested that since Data's skin had been largely removed at the end of the story, it would allow another actor to assume the role.

In the 1971 Emmy Award winning TV movie " Brian's Song " which portrays the story of former Chicago Bears running backs Brian Piccolo and Hall of Famer Gale Sayers, it ’ s the night after Piccolo's second surgery and Piccolo ( James Caan ) is talking to Sayers ( Billy Dee Williams ) on the phone.

In Kenneth Gardner's award winning 2002 novel Rich Man's Coffin, he portrays the true story of a black American slave who escapes on a whaling ship to New Zealand to become chief of one of the cannibal Maori tribes.

The title story of the Robot Dreams collection portrays LVX-1, or " Elvex ", a robot who enters a state of unconsciousness and dreams thanks to the unusual fractal construction of his positronic brain.

* Marina and the Diamonds's second album Electra Heart is based on a character she created of the same name whose story is told through the album, and which portrays the darker side of the American dream with elements of Greek tragedy which are particularly apparent in her visuals and aesthetic.

This story portrays the confused courtship of the title character, a free-spirited American girl, by Winterbourne, a compatriot of hers with much more sophistication.

A Double Life is a 1947 film noir which tells the story of an actor whose mind becomes affected by the character he portrays.

Although the popularity of the first story persists, and portrays Garrett in a better light, some historians contend that the second version is probably the accurate one.

Nobuo Kojima's short story " The American School " portrays a group of Japanese teachers of English who, in the immediate aftermath of the war, deal with the American occupation in varying ways.

* 1933: Hollywood B-movie Air Hostess portrays a love story about a stewardess ( Evalyn Knapp ) and a pilot ( James Murray ).

An example of this is the story " Nethescurial ", which portrays an omnipresent, malevolent creator deity once worshipped by the inhabitants of a small island.

Padayani is being performed as an offering to Goddess Kali ( Devi ) and often portrays the story of Goddess winning victory over Daarikan, an evil character.

The motion picture Brokeback Mountain portrays this lifestyle in the first act of the story, in which the shepherds take their sheep into BLM lands.

In the 1940 film Virginia City, Humphrey Bogart portrays a bandit named John Murrell, although the action in that story takes place at the end of the Civil War, more than twenty years after the death of the real Murrell.

* The award-winning short story by Robert J. Sawyer, " You See But You Do Not Observe ", portrays Mycroft Holmes ' namesake involved in pulling Sherlock and Watson into the year 2096 to solve a scientific mystery.

* In his short story " The Devil and Daniel Webster " ( 1937 ), Stephen Vincent Benet portrays Metacom as a villain to the colonists, and as being killed by a blow to the head ( he was shot in the heart ).

On the Road portrays the story of a fierce personal quest for meaning and belonging.

The story, then ( in imitation of the classical epics ) portrays the gods of Greece watching over the voyage of Vasco da Gama.

The 1990 television movie Traitor in My House tells the story of ELizabeth Van Lew from the perspective of her niece ; Mary Kay Place portrays Elizabeth.