The line between myth and tall tale is distinguished primarily by age ; many myths exaggerate the exploits of their heroes, but in tall tales the exaggeration looms large, to the extent of becoming the whole of the story.

* Uncommon Valour ( 2005 ) by John Stevens, the story of two naval officers in 1779, is primarily written in the form of diary and log extracts.

After several years of directing primarily lower-key live-action films, Hideaki Anno formed his own production studio and revisited his still-popular Evangelion franchise with the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy, a new series of films providing an alternate retelling of the original story.

The story takes place primarily on a continent called Westeros.

It takes longer to report that a student can add, subtract, multiply, divide, solve story problems, and draw graphs than to report " passed mathematics class ," but the burden imposed by OBE does not owe primarily to the reporting of more data.

Given free rein to change the story however he wanted, Aki's version is a violent saga focused primarily on fighting and has Hitomi transforming into a " curvaceous nymph " that is the power source of the mecha Escaflowne.

The story focuses primarily on the gradual developing relationships between Yusaku Godai, a poor student down on his luck, and Kyoko Otonashi, a young, recently-widowed boarding house manager.

The story focuses primarily on the show's effect on a couple whose domestic tensions and eventual reconciliation parallel the dangers faced by the contestants.

Behn's story was not primarily a protest against slavery but was written for money ; and it met readers ' expectations by following the conventions of the European romance novella.

This part of the opera is primarily inspired by the story of the legendary hero Sigurd in Norse mythology.

Riskin's version deviated from the original Runyon story primarily in that it linked its central character and a number of plot developments to millions of Americans who were suffering from an economic crisis as a result of the onset of the Great Depression.

The story deals primarily with a fictional assassination plot against De Gaulle, where the organization hires a British contract killer ( the Jackal ) to kill De Gaulle.

The change in his art was influenced primarily by the example of Édouard Manet, whom Degas had met in 1864 ( while both were copying the same Velázquez portrait in the Louvre, according to a story that may be apocryphal ).

Miller has stated that the film will be based primarily on Miller's original story A Dame to Kill For, and two new stories.

An adventure story primarily concerned with themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy and forgiveness, it focuses on a man who is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes from jail, acquires a fortune and sets about getting revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment.

Occasionally, though primarily on television, the characters in a story become the subjects of dramatizations based on their own lives or events that they have experienced.

He is known primarily from vase depictions that show him with the hero Heracles ; the mythic story that inspired these depictions has been entirely lost.

Anouilh's interpretation of the historical story, though often ironic, is more straightforward than T. S. Eliot's play on the same subject, Murder in the Cathedral, which was intended primarily as a religious treatment.

Ovid as a poet, primarily interested in telling a good story, would have the less historically credible view.

The story then dealt primarily with the city of Perris.

Mickey ( Woody Allen ), as both the former husband of Hannah and the eventual husband of Holly, is shown primarily in scenes outside of the primary story.

Episodes ( chapters ) in Ulysses relate a series of encounters and incidents in Bloom's contemporary odyssey through Dublin in the course of the single day of 16 June 1904 ( although episodes 1 to 3, 9 and to a lesser extent 7, are primarily concerned with Stephen Dedalus, who in the plan of the story is the counterpart of Telemachus ).

The story is set primarily in and around Melbourne, Australia, in 1963.

The presented version of the story was drawn by Christopher Tolkien primarily from The Grey Annals, although the Quenta Silmarillion was used as well.

The story concerns a corrupt mayoress, an idealistic nurse, a man who may be a doctor, and various officials, patients and townspeople, all fighting to save a bankrupt town.

* The short story " There Are More Things " by Jorge Luis Borges from The Book of Sand refers to an amphisbaena and concerns a similar, though mostly undescribed, monster.

The story concerns an English woman who lives at Fox Tor farm, and an American captured during the American Revolutionary War and held at the prison at Princetown on Dartmoor.

In addition, the story partly concerns the discovery of Aristotle's book on Comedy, which is in fact a lost book.

The story concerns a reunion in a crumbling Broadway theatre, scheduled for demolition, of the past performers of the " Weismann's Follies ," a musical revue ( based on the Ziegfeld Follies ), that played in that theatre between the World Wars.

The story concerns two rival " aesthetic " poets, who attract the attention of the young ladies of the village, who had been engaged to the members of a cavalry regiment.

A possibly apocryphal or exaggerated story concerns how the library's collection grew so large.

Michael Palin's personal journal entries from the period when various edits of Brian were being test-screened consistently reference the Pythons ' and filmmakers ' concerns that the Otto scenes were slowing the story down and thus were top of the list to be chopped from the final cut of the film.

* A two-part story in the Vertigo series Northlanders, for instance, concerns the destruction on the monastery.

However, if one considers the story historically accurate, happening in Jesus ' life apart from the similar incidents recorded in the other gospels, the question of the authenticity of the parable receives a different answer ... John Nolland, following Wilckens ' ideas, writes: ' There can hardly be a prior form of the episode not containing the present parable, since this would leave the Pharisee's concerns of v 39 with no adequate response '.

After the successful Russian Revolution ( 1917 ), the quality of spy fiction declined, because the Bolshevik enemy had won the Russian Civil War ( 1917 – 23 ); thus, the inter-war spy story usually concerns combating the Red Menace, which was then perceived as another " clash of civilizations ".

although concerns were voiced over the low difficulty of the puzzles and the effectiveness of the story.

The commonly believed archetype of the shaggy dog story is a story that concerns a shaggy dog.

Based on the short story " Spurs " by Clarence Aaron " Tod " Robbins, the screenwriter of The Unholy Three, the film concerns a love triangle between a wealthy dwarf, a gold-digging aerialist, and a strongman ; a murder plot ; and the vengeance dealt out by the dwarf and his fellow circus freaks.

The story concerns a household in Allendale, California, after the nuclear war has wiped out the population.

The story concerns the emotionally fragile Lucy Ashton ( Lucia ) who is caught in a feud between her own family and that of the Ravenswoods.

" Keene writes that The Tale of Genji continues to captivate, because, in the story, her characters and their concerns are universal.

The main frame story concerns a Persian king and his new bride.

The story concerns Frederic, who, having completed his 21st year, is released from his apprenticeship to a band of tender-hearted pirates.

The story concerns a band of immortal fairies who find themselves at odds with the House of Peers.

* The 1917 story " Savonarola " Brown by Max Beerbohm concerns an aspiring playwright, author of an unfinished, unintentionally absurd retelling of the life of Savonarola.

The story concerns Andrew Jackson Libby ( here nicknamed Pinky, for his red hair, but later nicknamed Slipstick ), a boy from Earth with extraordinary mathematical ability but meager education.

This story concerns a 20th century United States Navy cadet who rises in the ranks while avoiding any semblance of real work by applying himself wholeheartedly to the principle of " constructive laziness ".