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.

The idea of Túrin changing his name to escape his doom is present already in the original versions of the tale, although to a lesser extent.

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.

In addition to this, he is excessively superstitious, often to the extent of believing every myth, legend, tall tale, etc.

It is generally acknowledged that the text is related to Chrétien de Troyes ' unfinished Old French poem Perceval ( c. 1181 x 1191 ), but the nature of this relation has been a topic of lively debate, notably the question if and to what extent the Welsh tale was adapted from Perceval.

) by Simon Green, the plot and some events seems to be inspired heavily by the tale of The Monster and to a lesser extent Glamis Castle itself.

If each simple material had been allowed to tell its own tale, and the lines of the construction so arranged as to conduce to a sentiment of grandeur, the qualities of " power " and " truth ," which its enormous extent must have necessarily ensured, could have scarcely fail to excite admiration, and that at a very considerable saving of expense.

The compositional language is no doubt, plain – to such an extent that even a young school child ’ s vocabulary will be able to comprehend the sense of the tale.

The book to some extent explores the themes of social order, the client-patron relationship, gender roles, and time travel, but for the most part is a tale of action and adventure rather than a vehicle for philosophical musings.

It is more difficult with Faulkner than with most authors to say what is the extent and what is the source of his knowledge.

Both the extent to which this is true and the limits of the field of perceptual skill involved should be acknowledged.

In any event, the critical productivity of that time is abundant proof that if he was taking laudanum, it was never in command of him to the extent that it had been during his vagrant years.

But the extent of ethical robotism is easily overestimated.

Because of the means of publication -- science-fiction magazines and cheap paperbacks -- and because dystopian science fiction is still appearing in quantity the full range and extent of this phenomenon can hardly be known, though one fact is evident: the science-fiction imagination has been immensely fertile in its extrapolations.

It follows that the solution to the current disunity of the free nations is only to a very limited extent a matter of devising new machinery of consultation and coordination.

We believe that autism, like so many other conditions of defect and deviation, is to a large extent inborn.

it is necessary to perceive the extent of foreign aid demanded by the Christian imperative.

The Secretary of the Treasury, upon the concurrence of the Secretary of State, is authorized and directed, out of the sum covered into the Yugoslav Claims Fund pursuant to subsection ( B ) of this section, after completing the payments of such funds pursuant to subsection ( C ) of this Section, to make payment of the balance of any sum remaining in such fund to the Government of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia to the extent required under Article 1 ( C ) of the Yugoslav Claims Agreement of 1948.

Since broadcast frequencies are very limited in number, these objectives are to some extent inconsistent in that not all of them can be fully realized, and to the extent that each is realized, there is a corresponding reduction of the possibilities for fullest achievement of the others.

The extent and location of open areas is noted.

Fundamental to the difficulty of creating the desired prestige is the fact that, in the business community, prestige and status are conferred in proportion to the authority that one man has over others and the extent of which he participates in the management functions ''.

The dirt on the soiled objects is mechanically held by surface irregularities to some extent.

To what extent such low density applies to micrometeorites is unknown.

The very idea of there being `` count rules '' implies that there is some sort of proportion to be expected between the amount of congestive activity and the extent of the breakaway ( run up or run down ) movement.

Whether or not it is in the industry's interest to allow the basic wage rate to rise obviously depends upon the extent to which the public-limit price rises in response to a basic wage increase, and the relation of this response to the increase in costs accompanying the wage increase.

The extent to which the public-limit price is raised by a given increase in the basic wage rate is itself a function of three things: the passage of time, the level of GNP, and the size of the wage increase.

We are abstracting from the fact of strikes here, but it should be obvious that the extent to which the public-limit price is raised by a given increase in the basic wage rate is also a function of the show of resistance put up by the industry.

Although the extent of the privilege has been ill-defined, three features survived to the 20th century: the right to be tried by fellow peers in the Lord High Steward's Court and in the House of Lords ( abolished in 1948 ); the personal right of access to the Sovereign at any time, but this privilege has long been obsolete ; and the right to be exempt from civil arrest ( a privilege that has been used only twice since 1945 ).

Common payroll frequencies include: daily, weekly, bi-weekly ( once every two weeks ), semi-monthly ( twice per month ), and to a somewhat lesser extent, monthly.

And this hail lies there, so that if it were not for the absorption of the rising and falling clouds, which does not happen more than twice in an age, an enormous mass of ice would be piled up there by the layers of hail, and in the middle of July I found it very considerable ; and I saw the sky above me quite dark, and the sun as it fell on the mountain was far brighter here than in the plains below, because a smaller extent of atmosphere lay between the summit of the mountain and the sun.

Some commentators claim that to a large extent, France gets twice the CAP payment received by the UK because it has twice the amount of farmland, although the extent to which there is a correlation between the two is disputed.

In a review of the episode in The Observer, Caroline Boucher wrote: " My domestic Simpsons correspondent, Simon, reports a particularly fine episode, Marge in Chains to the extent that he watched the tape twice.

" This is an extremely implausible story, yet the fact that Finch told it at all shows the extent to which Christianity was evident in the Mughal court.

Ward gave Julf explicit permission to reveal the extent of his alleged use of the Penet remailer, and Julf told the Church that he could find no evidence that Ward had ever used the Penet remailer at all.

Thälmann's interpretation was that his two defence lawyers, both Nazi Party members ( he nonetheless trusted them to a certain extent ) at some point gathered that he planned to use the trial as a platform to appeal to world public opinion and denounce Hitler, and had told the court.

When the nobles were told the extent of the debt, they were shocked ; however, the shock did not motivate them to rally behind the plan – but to reject it.

Five years after filing the Ontario suit, Danson told reporters in March 2011 that the case had not yet proceeded in order to fully gauge the extent of Moore's injury.

One, Sean Cusack later said that he told McCullough, " we all felt he had, to some extent, let us down ".

His extreme carelessness in late years in his outward appearances was certainly much against him, but the unflagging zeal with which he delivered a whole course of lectures, if need were, even to a single student, ought to have told in his favour, as to some extent it doubtless did.

The number of people whom Perrin has told about the full extent of his abilities can be counted on one hand.

" The essence of television is that you can control the viewer's response to a much greater extent than other media permit ," he told The Times in 1958.

The command-and-control nature of entire supply chains allowed a degree of concern transfer that the normal peacetime commercial environment would never accept, from an agency like the War Production Board, through civilian businesses being told what to make ( and to some extent how to make it ), to the military logistics chain, out to the " point of the spear ", the frontline combat units.

Lugo told DCM that though he did not have a complete understanding as to the extent of official ( or semi-official ) protection that had gone on, he was toying with the idea of a national inquiry into the case, should he become president, saying, " the people have a right to know.

A week later, he learned for the first time the full extent of the centre column's defeat at Isandlwana and was told that no reinforcements could be made.

On 20 April 1945, Hitler told his staff, " the situation during the last few days has changed to such an extent that I am forced to reduce my staff ".

This court hearing was the result of the incorporation into Scots law of the European Convention on Human Rights in 2001, nine months after Megrahi's sentence was imposed, which required him to be told the extent of the " punishment part " of his life term.

While visiting Tadjoura in 1842, Charles Johnston was told that there could be found " stone walls of some extent, but completely in ruins ," which " could be seen on the road to the well " between the town and a local well.

" On September 29, 2003, approximately two and a half months after the disclosure of Plame's identity and subsequent filing of a crimes report by the CIA with the Justice Department, White House press secretary Scott McClellan told reporters: " The president believes leaking classified information is a very serious matter and it should be pursued to the fullest extent by the appropriate agency and the appropriate agency is the Department of Justice.

A member of the group had told the Washington Post that " All of us to a greater or lesser extent were uncomfortable with the treaty, but Bush said ' My concern isn ’ t the treaty.