As a choreographer, Susan Marshall delights in emotional situations but rarely tells straightforward tales.

It is a fairly straightforward cautionary tale of greed and foolishness.

Blackie told a clear, straightforward tale with the ease of a man used to giving testimony.

Price reduces the dizzying series of feints and blows to a vigorous, straightforward tale.

But having banished doubt, and with it the possibility of internal tension, Ms. Tepper is left with a straightforward tale of good against evil.

It is presented as a straightforward tale of love and friendship.

On the face of it, this looks like a straightforward tale of surgical horror.

You probably wanted a good straightforward tale of dragons.

Trust a nobleman to make hash of things instead of telling a simple, straightforward tale.