Sentences with phrase «anecdotes like»

Anecdotes like this will make you all the more memorable and relatable.

Anecdotes like this, which was shared in a 2014 ILTA Conference session titled Making CRM Work in a Law Firm, are one way to... Read More»

But we don't even need horrendous anecdotes like this to prove the point.

53 To that end, anecdotes like the ones above could be effective, especially when delivered by students or by graduates who've been «out there,» experiencing real research first hand.

Anecdotes like this are what the Laboratory - a new battle mode coming very soon to Total War: Warhammer II - is for.

Anecdotes like this abound in the avicultural community, but up until recently the notion that parrots were capable of anything other than mimicry was thought to be anthropomorphism.

It may be in bad taste to recount personal anecdotes like these, but I do for an important reason.

Kunis, Bell, and Hahn continue to share a pleasant level of camaraderie, even though the movie mostly splits them up, occasionally putting them back together for check - in scenes where they grin at each other's wisecracks and prompt each other for anecdotes like they're hosting some kind of round - robin talk show.

Show qualities and emotions through specific anecdotes like this example to give life and color to your toast.

It is anecdotes like this which impress the non-scientists and make them think that perhaps the sceptics are on to something after all.

Still, the campaign has made early missteps, replete with anecdotes like his appearance at the St. Patrick's Day parade, when aides had to tell onlookers who he was.

Anecdotes like this fill the book and provide entertainment for longtime travelers, technology nerds, pilots and other airline professionals, and especially food lovers...

Two above me have already pointed to the absurdity of taking an anecdote like this — even a number of them — and making grand claims about our system.

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Some of those included warnings like «no abusive, offensive, or spam comments,» and «no personal anecdotes.»

Surely the Turcke household is subscribed to Bell's highest - tier TV package, with all manner of channels, shows and movies flowing like water, which kind of makes the anecdote sound a little fishy.

In this book, Branson uses anecdotes and case studies, Branson provides a roadmap for success through strategies like thinking big and building small, as well as having empathy for employees.

Sparing you the trial and error that comes with starting a retail business from scratch, Bond shares firsthand experiences, lessons learned, and informative anecdotes that have helped thousands of aspiring retail entrepreneurs just like you!

Love the storytelling and anecdotes - really helps you feel like you have a front row seat to the rise of this company.

While there is plenty of room to explore this topic in future studies, the data confirms the intuitive claim, backed up by countless anecdotes, that potential drunk drivers will choose other options, like rides with Uber, when they are convenient, affordable, and readily available.

I make fun of the policy shallowness of Romney's convention speech and how he tried to use personal anecdotes to try to get people to like him without giving any real idea of what he would try to do as president.

Like him or not, his fan base has largely come to feel more comfortable with their non belief due to his humorous anecdotes.

People have warmed to him and they like the little anecdotes about him paying his own hotel bill and getting the bus with his brother cardinals.

I hope that in his next book, Turner does a little more of this, for it transforms his funny, sometimes bizarre anecdotes into more relatable, human stories and makes the reader feel more like a participant and less like an observer.

My favorite «whimsical» anecdote about a philosopher goes like this: Arthur Schopenhauer once threw an old lady down a flight of stairs.

Like Berger, Bellah has in mind the need for an overarching sense of meaning, but the symbols Bellah discusses seem not so exclusively to consist of «theoretical traditions,» as Berger describes them, but of anecdotes, images, pictures, connotatively rich names and places, rituals, and personal experiences.

Stories and anecdotes about travelling the world and enjoying European cuisine, buying organic, joining a CSA, or picking out fine wine for guests may make you feel like true hospitality and joyful and just eating are little more than dreams other people get to fulfill.

This anecdote communicates a simple but dynamic truth about growth that is often overlooked — that a major dreamsquelcher which causes us to postpone our potentializing indefinitely is the belief that «I can't do what I'd really like to do because...» If you feel some serious inner or outer obstacles to making creative changes in your life, welcome to the human race!

Ellison and I regarded ourselves as being the heirs and continuators of the most indigenous mythic prefigurations of the most fundamental existential assumption underlying the human proposition as stated in the Declaration of Independence... Yes, it would be the likes of him... and me... the grandchildren of slaves freed by the Civil War, betrayed by Reconstruction... who would strive in our stories to provide American literature with representative anecdotes, definitive episodes, and mythic profiles that would add up to a truly comprehensive and universally appealing American epic.

The messages I received throughout my pregnancy, in literature, at classes and even from friends» anecdotes, was that childbirth should be kept «natural» It's all right to treat pregnancy like an embarrassing disease, but childbirth has been built up to be some kind of quasi-mystical experience that might be ruined if the naughty men with their machines and drugs are allowed to interfere.

We ate around the coffee table, plates on our laps like good quarter - lifers, to the tune of high school anecdotes, a dachshund puppy (not mine) running around, and some classical music just audible beneath the chatter.

The book is sprinkled with anecdotes from the Frankies» travels to Italy, and every piece of advice is given like it was your best buddy speaking.

Oooh a great anecdote; school reunions... the thing I loved about the end of school was never having to see the certain people I didn't like, ever again...

Today, I'd like to follow that up with the resulting pizza and a house - sitting anecdote.

Tess» extra anecdotes about life at the Mill make you feel like you're a part of the family and draw you into making her wonderful recipes, like this one here about their bees.

They also share never - before - heard stories and anecdotes from inside the most famous mob family of our day (like how to sneak meatballs to family members in prison).

The valedictions, the Best XIs, the reminiscences and anecdotes are sounding, ninety horrible minutes later, almost like obituaries.

Anecdotes might help, like the sad tale of Tennessee almost scoring a touchdown on offense.

If you feel like you need a little help figuring out how or what to play, Cohen offers plenty of anecdotes, examples, and research in Playful Parenting.

Anyone have anecdotes about babies who wouldn't eat solids early on who grew up to be come super-geniuses or Olympic athletes or something like that?

I know for me, personal anecdotes are really helpful when it comes to «self - help» type shit like this, and I hope my own spin helps you, too.

-LSB-...] like to share my most harrowing parent stories as funny anecdotes.

Some of my favorite cookbooks read almost like a novel — small anecdotes from the author that give life to corresponding recipes.

As a last note, we would like to hear some (potentially funny) poop stories and we also welcome more serious anecdotes as well; so please share them!

Full of memories I'd like share, advice I have to lend, and anecdotes to get through the day.

I do include personal anecdotes to illustrate a point, but I like to think of my site as an online magazine for parents.

And while my story is merely an anecdote in the great sea of successful breastfeeding mothers, there are others out there like me.

They can suggest what they like of course, without superhuman abilities they are merely commenting on personal anecdote.

NOW WE CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THE EXTENT OF DEMENTIA IN AMERICA Dale Benjamin Drakeford 8-31-12 When Clint Eastwood, a self - proclaimed «conservative» (who has lived more like a Joseph Smith liberal spurning nine children with four different women, sporting a clinch fisted personae in his private exenterates over public exhibitions) talks vulgar to an empty chair, Marco Rubio (a small government advocate who loss his roots somewhere between caffeine - free tea and a caffeine rich Cuban cigar) slips Freudian to advocate «large government» in a failed attempt to wax brilliant but came off bane (pun intended) to the capitalization of the nation, Paul Ryan can lie and demonize his role against the truth until his nose is a foot long and not one member of his audience will notice, and Mitt Romney can anecdote on his personal family, business and church goings on as oppose to his solutions for unemployment, banking corruption, housing displacement, militarism, planetary illness and international human rights unrest, we can clearly understand the extent of dementia in America.

For every anecdote about lifelong trade unionist abandoning Labour because of Corbyn's stance on foreign policy issues, there's someone like my own aunt, who is affected by the Bedroom Tax and thinks he's God's gift to politics.

This is important because the way people solve problems is first by having an enormous amount of commonsense knowledge, like maybe 50 million little anecdotes or entries, and then having some unknown system for finding among those 50 million old stories the 5 or 10 that seem most relevant to the situation.