Sentences with phrase «anecdotes concerning»

He does share a few anecdotes concerning the crew and the production which are worth hearing, but be prepared for the dull patches.

And yet the movie remains somewhat palatable for the duration of its brief running time, with the less - than - engrossing opening stretch, which predictably revolves around Farley's childhood and adolescence, giving way to a series of anecdotes concerning the comedian's stint on SNL - with the highlight undoubtedly a prolonged look at the creation of Farley's now - legendary motivational speaker character.

A fifteen - minute featurette intercuts interviews with Argento, writer Dardano Sacchetti, and Morricone, each of them contributing fascinating anecdotes concerning the production of Argento's «animal trilogy» and doling out a great deal of technical and artistic insight into the development of the director's visual style.

The stream of shocking anecdotes concerning sex education in non-Catholic as well as Catholic schools is wearisome confirmation of this process of sexualisation of youth by their respected, adult mentors.

As Shawn Callahan, author of Putting Stories to Work, explains these «small stories» are the anecdotes concerning real - life experiences that people tell every day in conversations.

Instead, what's needed is what Callahan calls «small stories,» the anecdotes concerning real - life experiences that people tell every day in conversations.

An oft - repeated anecdote concerns the sermon they heard that first Sunday and minister Jack Jensen's mention of the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke.

UNHAPPY LANDINGS Sirs: The SCORECARD section of your September 9 issue contained a very amusing anecdote concerning a golf ball landing in a helicopter.

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Carlson also tells a jaw - dropping anecdote to illustrate Mayer's occasional tone - deafness: After upsetting employees with a number of new H.R. policies, including a widely hated performance review system, Mayer held a town - hall meeting to address their concerns.

The early years of their married life are described with humour and charm, with some nice anecdotes — my personal favourite is of Valerie taking their little daughter regularly to post letters to Denis when he was working abroad, and small Venetia expressing concern: «Poor Dadda, he must be very uncomfortable in that pillar - box!».

MPs of all parties reported back from surgeries with anecdotes of constituents who were concerned that their casework might no longer be kept secret by their elected representatives.

The best parts of Dream Is Destiny concern Linklater's own easygoing delivery of various anecdotes about growing up and his artistic process, and the look we get at some creative logs from his younger days.

Moderated by Rob Galluzzo, director / co-writer Wesley and producer Cami Winikoff record the first of two commentary tracks, which hums with anecdotes and good humour, especially where it concerns a harrowing anecdote about how the pair were scheduled for a plane they missed that subsequently crashed.

You can report IEP progress or write anecdotes about the child's day, etc. and the parent can write back questions or concerns.

I have been gathering notes and anecdotes for years in preparation for the time when I could truly write what I wanted without any concern for oversight of my chosen material.

Raising Resilient Children is an engaging and wise work filled with vivid anecdotes from the authors» own practices that will inspire parents and all others concerned about our youth.

Your concern may rightly stem from anecdotes provided by people who have lost their initial investments (and possibly more) «and will never touch the market again».

Yet his purpose with such inclusions is not the personal anecdote; rather, they raise questions concerning the category of the collective — for example, to what extent social structures and the hierarchies woven into them inform our personalities.

Jim D, If you credit Feynman's own anecdotes about his work at Oak Ridge, his main contribution was insist to authorities that (despite the obvious security concerns) the workers had be told something about what they were handling (particularly the effect of water on criticality) so that they didn't accidentally kill everyone and / or lose the war.

«But with the amount of money it would provide terrorist groups, even anecdotes are a huge cause for concern,» Claudia McMurray, assistant secretary of State, also told Newsweek.

Throughout the book Freeman provides regular answers to the concerns lawyers raise such as the following anecdote from a presentation Freeman held with in - house and external counsel:

The relevance of the anecdote became readily apparent as ESAC v SOCAN concerned copyright holders of musical works wanting to receive royalties for their music used in video games which had been downloaded over the internet.