1.   Even with her high media profile, Gray says her sometimes gritty lyrics are deeply personal tales from her life.

2.   It is as though commencement speakers feel increasingly compelled to validate their observations with personal tales of poverty, physical suffering or triumph over adversity.

3.   Other articles include personal tales of courage, the ordeal of recovering the bodies and a profile of fugitive terrorist Osama bin Laden.

4.   Such personal tales have become a field of intense interest among historians and other academics, who realize that immense chunks of the past have yet to be unearthed.

5.   They are full of symbols and are highly allegorical, like intensely personal mythological tales.

6.   Throughout the White House, there was dogged determination to stay on task, as well as some reluctance to tell personal tales about the attacks and the aftermath.

7.   What finally overwhelmed him, he said, were the personal tales of anguish.

8.   While everyone from girlfriends to cooks have penned their personal tales of Elvis, Moore has remained silent all these years.

9.   Kissinger wove his personal tales of friendship with tributes to her contributions to journalism and her fierce defense of the First Amendment.