Sentences with phrase «in sad tales»

In sad tales, the author is a kind of despot - sadist who leaves us yearning for something more meaningful.

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In fact, Gates is so enthusiastic about this sad tale that he calls Kalanithi's memoir «an amazing book.

It is really sad to see grown intelligent men not just (really) believe in mythical tales and dress weird but also kill each other in the name of their gods.

It's also sad that grown adults believe in a fairy tale place.

But in a way, the tale is even sadder in the West than in the revanchist East.

What is sad is that you expect your nation's leader to base policy on a fairy tale concocted by the ancients trying to understand their place in the universe.

Atheists are not angry, they are just sad that people believe in fairy tales in this day and age, and not only that, these people are willing to kill, denigrate, hurt, judge and segregate others that do not believe in their religion.

In a passage telling the sad tale, not of the death of kings, but of the end of Shakespeare's career as a writer of English history plays, Greer points to this new dynamic as the cause:

It's just sad that we still have religions and that such large number of people still believes in these fairy tales even though there is no substance based on any real facts in them.

Epic tale of a Chinese - Canadian dynasty and revealing the sad state of women in Chinese traditional culture.

I want her to know...» If you want a nonfiction account of what happens when fathers encourage daughters to get «in touch» with their sexuality because «it is not so big a deal,» read Hustled: My Journey From Fear to Faith (Westminster / John Knox), Tonya Flynt «Vega's sad tale of what it was like growing up as Larry Flynt's daughter.

My normal tale of woe is letting the mixture become too wet, sticking it in the freezer in vain hope of shaping it into sad little patties, and then watching them fall apart on the barbeque whilst consoling myself with a large glass of wine.

I'm going to look for this book - I grew up in a neighborhood of Holocaust survivors and as sad as that was - there were amazing tales of selflessness and humanity.

Never forget the sad, strange tale of the Red Sox and Bruce Chen in 2011.

What follows is a cautionary tale that, I am sad to report, highlights so many of the things that need fixing in youth sports; issues I have been writing about (or would banging my head against the wall in frustration be more apt?)

Even in Katie Prown's own state, the data tell the same sad tale over and over again.

Let me preface my sad, sorry tale of attachment parenting gone horribly awry by saying this: I do not think attachment parenting in and of itself is a bad thing.

Just another sad, but unremarkable tale of a bright kid who squandered his potential and ruined his life by turning to a career in IT.

This sad tale is told by Giles Udy in Labour and the Gulag Russia and the Seduction of the British Left (Biteback).

It all amounts to a sad tale of friendships and long associations disintegrating in the face of a criminal investigation.

I hear tales in my family of great great great Aunts and Uncles sailing from Liverpool and taking the road trains over the mighty continent of America to the West Coast, and think how sad and scared those goodbyes must have been as mothers fare - welled daughters and sons with only the hope of a letter or two.

Over in dresses it's mostly a sad tale about Anthro cutting corners in production by not making fit - and - flares.

Luckily I was in my room when watching this sad yet uplifting tale.

In this real - life true story of aspiring actors Tommy Wiseau (Franco) and Greg Sestero (brother Dave), we have a tale that is both hysterically funny and heart - wrenchingly sad.

It's almost as if Sturges set out to tell a sad tale with due solemnity (of a man who never received the recognition he deserved), managed to get so far into it and then couldn't resist throwing in some gags.

Rachel Weisz teams up with director Terence Davies in «The Deep Blue Sea», a sad and heartbreaking tale of love gone beautifully right and amazingly wrong.

It's in these sequences that Burton allows his characters to tell one or two stories verbally without visual aids or flashbacks, and they're the saddest tales of all.

Years after The Squid and the Whale, a terrifically sad tale of divorce and family break - ups, Noah Baumbach was still searching for that right mix of tragedy and the wry laughter that comes out of it in short, sharp, painful bursts.

Starring Johnny Depp in his best performance in at least a decade, Black Mass tells the sad tale of how the FBI enabled a small - time criminal's rise to become a mafia kingpin.

Now, you can see for yourself — in bite - sized trailer form, at least — whether you're as affected by Lanthimos» tale of a sad - sack divorcee (Colin Farrell) who's forced to attend a government - run resort where single people are transformed into animals by a relationship - minded bureaucracy.

It's a revenge tale that frequently takes pit stops from its action to portray Dom's grief, which in this case amounts to watching a darkness - shrouded Diesel stare blankly off into the distance to the tune of sad electronic muzak.

Which is basically half the fun of his self - starring scatological comedy the gross tale of a sad - sack TV repairman who gets bullied into smuggling a kilo of Bangkok heroin in his bowels only to be arrested by police and sweated out over a toilet bowl for the seven excruciating days they re allowed to detain him.

Ostensibly the middle film in Aki Kaurismäki's still in the works Le Havre harbor trilogy (following 2011's Le Havre), The Other Side of Hope is another eccentric humanist tale from the forever happy - sad Finnish auteur.

In a matter of moments — and glasses of wine, of which there is no shortage in this film — Mary's tales shift from light - hearted to saIn a matter of moments — and glasses of wine, of which there is no shortage in this film — Mary's tales shift from light - hearted to sain this film — Mary's tales shift from light - hearted to sad.

In many ways, it is a sad tale.

Resolution A-4 (Operating Budget: $ 500,000 Contracts with AstroPhysics, Autoclear, and Ceia — Weapons Screening Equipment and Supplies) tells a sad tale of what has become normal in so many of our schools.

1932 Tatra Type 57 — Zoe Harrison tells the intriguing story of the car that came here from Austria in the 1970s / 1911 Albion 16hp — The tale of this Scottish expatriate now enjoying an active life in Australia is told by Dennis Harrison / Ice and Snow Rally 1991 — Malcolm Elder explains what it is like to take part in the Rallye Neige et Glace in the French Alps / Early 20s Fox light car — The story of this Anglo - German enterprise is uncovered by Michael Worthington - Williams / Another Golden Age of Motoring — Brian A Meulbrouck argues that the period following WW2 should be considered worthy of this accolade / 1928 Alvis 12/50 — The Editor enjoys his excursion this month in this sporting open tourer / Epps Bros. coachbuilders — The history of the London - based family firm is recalled for us by James Taylor / 1924 Turcat - Mery SG limousine — In the second part of his article Finbarr Corry writes about his impressions of driving a 1924 limousine / 1930s «graveyard» — Ray Cattle pictures a sad collection of thirties cars left in the open to roin the 1970s / 1911 Albion 16hp — The tale of this Scottish expatriate now enjoying an active life in Australia is told by Dennis Harrison / Ice and Snow Rally 1991 — Malcolm Elder explains what it is like to take part in the Rallye Neige et Glace in the French Alps / Early 20s Fox light car — The story of this Anglo - German enterprise is uncovered by Michael Worthington - Williams / Another Golden Age of Motoring — Brian A Meulbrouck argues that the period following WW2 should be considered worthy of this accolade / 1928 Alvis 12/50 — The Editor enjoys his excursion this month in this sporting open tourer / Epps Bros. coachbuilders — The history of the London - based family firm is recalled for us by James Taylor / 1924 Turcat - Mery SG limousine — In the second part of his article Finbarr Corry writes about his impressions of driving a 1924 limousine / 1930s «graveyard» — Ray Cattle pictures a sad collection of thirties cars left in the open to roin Australia is told by Dennis Harrison / Ice and Snow Rally 1991 — Malcolm Elder explains what it is like to take part in the Rallye Neige et Glace in the French Alps / Early 20s Fox light car — The story of this Anglo - German enterprise is uncovered by Michael Worthington - Williams / Another Golden Age of Motoring — Brian A Meulbrouck argues that the period following WW2 should be considered worthy of this accolade / 1928 Alvis 12/50 — The Editor enjoys his excursion this month in this sporting open tourer / Epps Bros. coachbuilders — The history of the London - based family firm is recalled for us by James Taylor / 1924 Turcat - Mery SG limousine — In the second part of his article Finbarr Corry writes about his impressions of driving a 1924 limousine / 1930s «graveyard» — Ray Cattle pictures a sad collection of thirties cars left in the open to roin the Rallye Neige et Glace in the French Alps / Early 20s Fox light car — The story of this Anglo - German enterprise is uncovered by Michael Worthington - Williams / Another Golden Age of Motoring — Brian A Meulbrouck argues that the period following WW2 should be considered worthy of this accolade / 1928 Alvis 12/50 — The Editor enjoys his excursion this month in this sporting open tourer / Epps Bros. coachbuilders — The history of the London - based family firm is recalled for us by James Taylor / 1924 Turcat - Mery SG limousine — In the second part of his article Finbarr Corry writes about his impressions of driving a 1924 limousine / 1930s «graveyard» — Ray Cattle pictures a sad collection of thirties cars left in the open to roin the French Alps / Early 20s Fox light car — The story of this Anglo - German enterprise is uncovered by Michael Worthington - Williams / Another Golden Age of Motoring — Brian A Meulbrouck argues that the period following WW2 should be considered worthy of this accolade / 1928 Alvis 12/50 — The Editor enjoys his excursion this month in this sporting open tourer / Epps Bros. coachbuilders — The history of the London - based family firm is recalled for us by James Taylor / 1924 Turcat - Mery SG limousine — In the second part of his article Finbarr Corry writes about his impressions of driving a 1924 limousine / 1930s «graveyard» — Ray Cattle pictures a sad collection of thirties cars left in the open to roin this sporting open tourer / Epps Bros. coachbuilders — The history of the London - based family firm is recalled for us by James Taylor / 1924 Turcat - Mery SG limousine — In the second part of his article Finbarr Corry writes about his impressions of driving a 1924 limousine / 1930s «graveyard» — Ray Cattle pictures a sad collection of thirties cars left in the open to roIn the second part of his article Finbarr Corry writes about his impressions of driving a 1924 limousine / 1930s «graveyard» — Ray Cattle pictures a sad collection of thirties cars left in the open to roin the open to rot.

Set in 1920's England and Hong Kong, this sad classic tale tells the story of an extremely vain and spoiled young Kitty Fane who doesn't appreciate the love of a good husband until it's too late, but learns about love and forgiveness in the end.

It's Eric Powell's tale of a bearded girl and her pet monster, set in a sad circus; check out my review at Robot 6 if you want to know more.

In a book both crushingly sad and hugely inspirational, Julie pens her tale as a confession while strapped to a chair, recovering from the latest round of Gestapo torture.

The sad tale of Ron Williamson & Dennis Fritz Ada, Oklahoma local boy Ron Williamson achieved hero status when drafted by baseball's Oakland Athletics in 1971, but within a couple of seasons his baseball dreams had been dashed and he took to drowning his sorrows in alcohol.

A beautifully narrated tale of unrequited love and repetitive loss that left both a sad and joyful taste in my mouth.

Click here for Kindle Nation Daily link (Note from Stephen Windwalker: Longtime Kindle Nation readers may remember Jeff Belle as one of the first sponsors of Kindle Nation Daily way back in September 2010 with his debut novella, «Carlos The Impossible» — «a «Ferdinand» for grown - ups... a sort of love story: part tall tale, part sad, -LSB-...]

In her acutely observant and compassionate fourth novel, Straight casts Southern California as a microcosm of injustice in an involving, often sad, ultimately affirming tale about a young illegal Mexican immigrant, her gruff but loyal white husband, and their teenage daughter, who attempts to bridge the divide between conflicting legacieIn her acutely observant and compassionate fourth novel, Straight casts Southern California as a microcosm of injustice in an involving, often sad, ultimately affirming tale about a young illegal Mexican immigrant, her gruff but loyal white husband, and their teenage daughter, who attempts to bridge the divide between conflicting legaciein an involving, often sad, ultimately affirming tale about a young illegal Mexican immigrant, her gruff but loyal white husband, and their teenage daughter, who attempts to bridge the divide between conflicting legacies.

Enriched by flashbacks to the alluringly sad tale of Anyusha's mother, a famous Russian refusenik who died for her beliefs, The Wanting is a poignant study of the costs of extremism, but it is most satisfying as a story of characters enmeshed in their imperfect love for one another and for the heartbreakingly complex world in which that love is wrought.

WiiWare kicks off the week with a strong release in Tales of Monkey Island: Chapter 4 (Telltale Games, Players: 1, E 10 + — Cartoon Violence, Mild Language, Suggestive Themes, Use of Alcohol, 1,000 Wii Points), but then pretty much looks sad.

Elder Game: MMO game development» The Tragic Story of The Cussing NPCs «The following story is an imagining of what may have led to the sad tale of the cussing NPCs in Champions Online.

Fans have offered to kick in money to fund highly demanded sequels before (the sad tale of Mega Man Legends 3 comes to mind), but I can understand why the old guard of development and publishing may shy away from pursuing the Kickstarter model.

The sad tale of the tape is next — India dreams of nuclear and renewables, but their feet are firmly planted in coal.

On Friday, the Chicago Tribune (via @segelke43) told the sad tale of Brian Gill, who made the mistake at some point in his life of parking his motorcycle at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Ill., without paying.