"Coveting the prize possession is an age-old story in human nature," he said.
Some sociologists are calling this the daughter track, a modern version of an age-old story.
His songs take a long view; he sees himself acting out age-old stories as he fights his own worst impulses.
THE age-old story of the hunter and the hunted - the lion and the buffalo - seems so predictable.
But that is the age-old story.
That, too, is part of the age-old story of this day.
Because, in the end, it isn't the science, history or philosophy that keeps drawing us back to King Kong, but an age-old story.
Perhaps the age-old story of good versus evil captured the imagination of its global audience?
As she tells us the age-old story, she steps back and forth in history from the time of Esther to today.
It's the age-old story: every one of them thinks, 'They'll never catch me.