Gilliam is a straight-shooter who can winningly spin a yarn : " Reality was trying to prove to me that dreamers don't win, " he recalls of the tortured " Munchausen " production.
22.
In his 1964 fictional thriller, The Q Document, James Hall Roberts spins a yarn about a forged biblical passage from the New Testament that is part of a Nazi plot to undermine Christianity.
23.
As Mary Dundreary leads an adoring Asa on a tour of her modern dairy, Asa spins a yarn of a deathbed bequest by his stepfather of sufficient money to save the Dundreary estate.
24.
Described Thursday as a gifted storyteller who can spin a yarn as well as the best of them, Heaney is also a private person, who eschews any hint of " famous poet " celebrity.
25.
The sequel, as was the first, has all the elements of a great read, this one baring the dark side of sex, occultism, mystery, and sorcery, as he spins a yarn of good versus evil.
26.
The young man proceeded to spin a yarn about how the other fellow, whereabouts unknown and unavailable for questioning, had pulled a pistol and forced him, at gunpoint, under threat of death, to participate in the crime.
27.
This is all part of a ruse orchestrated by Garron; the jethrik was planted by Garron's assistant Unstoffe, who also was playing a native with an " honest face " spins a yarn to the Graff about a nearby lost mine.
28.
The current production of " Part 1 : Here in St . Cloud's, " which opened Thursday at Off Broadway's Atlantic Theater Co ., spins a yarn of epic proportions that never lets us forget we are both witnesses to and participants in the action.
29.
Give the man a beat and a keyboard, and he'll spin a yarn, the likes of which you've never heard . " " Magnet " wrote " If the debut from Imaginary Johnny is any indication of what's to come, Belle and Sebastian best be watching its back.