An
anecdote is a short and interesting story or personal experience that someone shares to illustrate or explain a point.
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The first one was just a series of
anecdotes about all the stories I have collected throughout the last decade with epilepsy.
He gives a lot
of anecdotes from his own family of five children, two of whom were at college when he wrote the book.
She shares
personal anecdotes about past dating relationships and how she found the right guy to love.
Features interviews with men of diverse backgrounds and ages, sharing painfully personal
anecdotes in the wake of emotionally turbulent and unsettling periods of their youth.
This practice - building resource is an insightful collection of
anecdotes on successful and creative marketing techniques used by lawyers and marketing professionals in a variety of practice settings.
More than 30,000 people watched the clip and a few
shared anecdotes about seeing whales around the bridge this month.
He talks from a privileged behind - the - scenes position about tactics and how he felt mentally and physically as well
as anecdotes from the dressing room.
I am too exhausted today to think of any other little
anecdotes for you so I'm going to get straight to describing how to make these easy spicy kale chips!
A brief audio clip follows the quote for maximum motivation, followed
by anecdotes and advice for life coaches.
The commission
told anecdotes about pay - to - play scenarios and conflicts of interest and raised questions about legislators spending their campaign funds on personal expenses.
It goes on to give a series of useful tips for practitioners, sprinkled with
amusing anecdotes of past successes and failures.
Sharing inspiring or
funny anecdotes on your blog or candid photos of the staff allows you to connect with clients and build a rapport in a less — stressful, more positive manner.
You can
use anecdotes from your roles as an employee, student, volunteer, or intern.
While every person's sex life and relationship is unique, here's a look at how many experience sex as they age —
including anecdotes from real women.
There are
good anecdotes in there, but it probably wasn't as good a story as he could tell if he was minded to tell it....
By a sense of humor, I don't mean the ability to tell jokes or include
humorous anecdotes in one's lessons.
To turn journal entries and personal
anecdotes into flash fiction, you must expand their boundaries.
Personal
anecdotes don't prove a thing without evidence to back them up.
We've all
heard anecdotes, too, of teens being reduced to tears from the constant communication and comparisons that social media invites.
In the cited pieces, I see no actual discussion of the evidence,
just anecdotes.
A great way to inquire about promotional opportunities is to ask the interviewer to
provide anecdotes of past employee success stories.
You want to have
anecdotes at the ready to show your interviewer that you're competent, knowledgeable, and well - prepared to join their staff.
You'll also want to have a
few anecdotes on hand to address those pesky behavioral interview questions.
Instead, find ways to inject information about your achievements, desires, and future goals, casually, through
short anecdotes, reflections, and humor.
A really good employee will be able to talk about local sites to observe nature and even
offer anecdotes about things that he or she has witnessed.
In any case,
such anecdotes do not constitute scientific evidence that the dead survive or that they can communicate with us via electronic equipment.
Show qualities and emotions through specific
anecdotes like this example to give life and color to your toast.
The themes are covered
through anecdotes and acting to help make each assembly relevant to the children's lives.
True,
fun anecdotes that new, retiring and all teachers can enjoy.
I suspect it would be seen as too risky to give real
life anecdotes as examples.
Unique ideas and thoughts through conducting own research by surveys; questionnaires and
anecdotes make research successful.
Put that research into practice and use it to come up with topics, questions, and
relevant anecdotes from your own life that you can share in conversation!
Against this background of mixed experimental results, however, there are countless
anecdotes suggesting that a lot more is going on.
Provide
specific anecdotes, examples, and stories that illustrate how you helped your department to reach its goals.
The simple
anecdotes which have received some publicity make it clear solutions can't be delivered to only one spot.
He does share a few
anecdotes concerning the crew and the production which are worth hearing, but be prepared for the dull patches.