Sentences with phrase «anecdotes make»

Lively prose and interesting anecdotes make the history of Prohibition accessible, while the examination of unintended consequences makes this photo - essay relevant to today's political world.

Images and anecdotes make his logic vivid in the mind... He is a good storyteller, crisp and funny, and always generous, even when the ideas he entertains become radically complex.

Cosby's leisurely - paced anecdotes make for a fast and fun viewing.

But do such anecdotes make the case for safe and legal elixirs that heighten sensation and enhance creative drive?

I connected with Kiesel to for his take on the IoT's place in food service, with his commentary and anecdotes making clear the importance of IoT - driven interconnectivity for multiple facets of the restaurant trade.

One anecdote making the rounds in the market today is about Seth Golden, a logistics manager at retail chain Target.

This anecdote makes a fine introduction to Tyson's art, which isn't really about gambling, per se, as much as it is about an artist's intervention into chance.

«anecdote made me giggle.

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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.

As the above anecdote suggests, my language at a young age made longshoremen blush not because I was learning the words on The Electric Company.

If you're going to tell a personal anecdote, make it relevant and perhaps even self - deprecatory.

No matter how much data you try to pull or how many anecdotes you take into consideration, one big hurdle remains to prevent us from making a final call between these two giants: the fact that every business client is different.

While some view football as a cutthroat, dog - eat - dog industry, the anecdote shows that even the most stoic of football figures can make moves that benefit both their team and the player they're moving.

And though Bay Street types might chafe at the comparison, Ferrante's anecdotes from life in La Cosa Nostra make as good a framework as any for conveying maxims about getting ahead in the business world.

It's these larger drivers — not cute anecdotes and fake facts — that will provide the framework for decision - making.

Several anecdotes from a Wall Street Journal profile of Smith, out Tuesday, make this abundantly clear.

Fix: Grab the audience by asking an interesting question, making a controversial statement, or telling a short personal anecdote.

The course: This short 40 - minute class breaks down the fundamentals of narrative storytelling and what makes a story different from a mere anecdote.

Smith shared anecdotes about the many near - death experiences of Ugg, including finding out his primary supplier was choking him off while making boots for his chief competitor, which led to the creation of his mantras.

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.

What makes the books so gripping is not primarily their treatment of power politics, but the way Caro saturates them with anecdotes from Johnson's life.

It makes me wonder how much pressure we feel to sanitize our stories so that they don't make people uncomfortable, how we anecdote our experience with the lightness or the healing or birth or new life alone in order to make it acceptable.

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.

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!

That Polkinghorne seems only to make use of his scientifc background for anecdotes and metaphors and then takes signifcant false turns in terms of Christian orthodoxy and coherent metaphysics is disappointing.

One of the mistakes I made with my husband was to tell him this story — thinking it would be a funny anecdote for one, and also to just let him know he would be eating any of the grilled meat that hit the ground.

excellent read: life divides into AMAZING ENJOYABLE TIMES and APPALLING EXPERIENCES THAT WILL MAKE FUTURE AMAZING ANECDOTES!

OK so I thought the anecdotes about the bees trying to get in or even make their way in the house were cute and funny, but I didn't really think much about it actually happening.

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!

And I loved the anecdote at the beginning of your story... it made me nostalgic for a past I never even lived.

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.

In this Out of the Kitchen project, we're trying to map the intangible social network that makes up Andrew Tarlow's restaurant group, from the 15 - year - old Diner to this year's brand - new Achilles Heel and She Wolf Bakery, and as we strike out into the world of personal relationships and anecdotes about all these people and places, it occurred to us that these relationships occupy physical space, too.

Our reward will be the smiles, the knowledge and anecdotes that we have been able to impart and the friends that will be made.»

This makes for a nice anecdote and a good way for owner Jimmy Haslam to show how much Browns fans wanted...

I was talking to a Rovers fan in the pub the other week, already you're probably thinking `' well this anecdote is made up, what self respecting Wanderers fan would do such a thing `' but you'll have to take my word for it.

First, this writer makes the basic, and solipsistic, mistake of confusing her own experience and a few anecdotes with a widespread study.

In truth, nearly all of the anecdotes in the first edition of Weems» book about Washington were fabricated, but the biography was tremendously popular and subsequent editions included even more made - up tales.

As I attempt to make appropriate conversation, I realize my first - person anecdotes are pretty stale.

Tell them stories, funny anecdotes, gossip, anything to keep their mind off their problem and make them smile even for a while.

In the category of «little evidence, lots of anecdotes» is gripe water, a natural colic remedy made of herbs and sodium bicarbonate in drops.

The post opens with an anecdote about a playdate where she made cookies and homemade Gak, and then the playdate child's mom came to pick her up and said, «Wow, you go all out for playdates.

The anecdote she uses tells of a woman who comes in with a 6 - week - old who isn't breastfeeding very well, and she's afraid she isn't making enough milk.

She gives you stories and anecdotes, and tells you about her preemie to give you an insight into her life and how she came to create this baby food making empire.

But one anecdote does not a gospel make.

Using an inconsequential anecdote to make that point doesn't suddenly make my hypothesis about my anecdote.

Bettina, this is such a great, clear and cogent explanation of the many very biased claims this piece makes, which are not supported by facts, just anecdotes and wishful thinking.

Then visit Pregnancy Stories to post your anecdote about pregnancy and the decisions you have made during your third trimester.

If you have some tips on choosing a theme and making the room complete, or maybe a funny story about your baby's reaction to the room, then visit Pregnancy Stories to share your anecdote.

(You made different observations about this, but these are anecdotes.