Sentences with phrase «anecdotes which»

An added bonus is that Ifill is generous enough to include a few personal anecdotes which reveal a very likable, intimate side her fans never get to see on TV.

Although he largely remains calm in the face of considerable provocation, James is someone who can't abide bullshit and in this most postmodern of films that includes traditional filmic pomposity, those moments which seem extraordinary - grand speeches and indulgent anecdotes which he slices through with castrating barbs and withering looks.

The simple anecdotes which have received some publicity make it clear solutions can't be delivered to only one spot.

Multiple allergies showed up and we went right to Amazon to find helpful books on changing our eating habits to eliminate allergens in our child's diet.These recipes are easy and the book is written with great anecdotes which show the author can really relate to the difficulties we face as novices to the allergy free environment.

I love all of the stories and anecdotes which are not limited to the headnotes of each recipe.

Regarding (3), my question about our ability to see our daily lives absorbed by the biblical world, Placher uses anecdotes which, unfortunately, do not address the complexity of my initial inquiry about postliberal theology I agree that visions of the world which try to dictate details collapse.

One impression we get from the Gospels is that they are strung together from a number of anecdotes which are not necessarily in the order in which they occurred, even if they are historical.

22, but the internal situation is most vividly portrayed in the rich collection of contemporary poems, orations, and biographical anecdotes which we have in the Book of Jeremiah.)

Rather than using stock phrases like «good sense of humour», aim to convey more of yourself by describing something that makes you laugh, or recounting an amusing anecdote which reveals more about you.

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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.

He continued his anecdote by sharing his surefire way of get over his stutter, which is to say his favorite word.

In the post, he gives three reasons for taking the unusual step of paying his employees to not work, the first of which he explains with a personal anecdote about planning his honeymoon:

I now have hundreds of thousands of these cards, which I always turn to if I need an anecdote, a fact, inspiration, a strategy, a story, or an example.

And he offers anecdotes aplenty about booze, drugs and sex — the latter of which he encouraged at his own agency, because «nothing got creative people to come in early and leave late better than the prospect of sexual adventure.»

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.

There are many other ways in which the Daniels interview rings true beyond this one paragraph, but this anecdote about sharks helps us understand that the Trump with whom we're familiar did not suddenly become who he is when he announced his candidacy in June 2015.

Eventually, Rockefeller's oil operations became so vast that he could fund all of his expansion efforts from his own profits, but there was a point in time in which Morgan was mad as hell that he couldn't get an asset override on Rockefeller's wealth, and you better believe there is a take - home lesson in that anecdote.

And, notwithstanding anecdotes of retiring boomers, the 55 - to 64 - year - olds were the only group in which the percentage not in the labor force and not wanting a job fell from 1994 to 2013.

After two or three thousand pages of Caro's highly oral writing, one finds oneself chanting along as he repeats the classic anecdotes and mottos, and yearning, in the end, for the fifth and final volume, which will complete this epic chronicle of a 20th century political genius.

The footnotes alone — in which Williams recounts many personal anecdotes and reveals strong opinions on many matters — are worth the price of the set.

I would challenge not only the anecdotes in the story, which I don't think are anything but lies or half - truths at best, but also the numbers, because the resurrection and the rapture are two entirely different things — although they're both equally ridiculous notions to posit.

I recount these anecdotes not only to give you a sense of the personality of the man who is in some important respects synonymous with American Jewry and who is responsible for conceiving of some of its major institutions, from the once liberal orthodoxy of the Young Israel movement, to the Reconstructionist movement in Judaism, to the very structure of the American synagogue, which he called a synagogue center, to my own institution, The University of Judaism.

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!

The Koran, by way of contrast, is the product of one single mind; not so the New Testament, which has all the variety of the Old, and is a «social» product, a «traditional» book — that is, a book enshrining traditions, letters, anecdotes, revelations, sayings, stories — and its unity is found only in its central affirmations, convictions, loyalties, and the general way of life which it reflects.

Sorry for such a long - winded question, and thank you so much for sharing your recipes and fun anecdotes (which help inspire me to indulge and create)!

Teams take mascots out onto the pitch with them, ensuring that (a) a few youngsters have excellent anecdotes with which to impress their peers, and (b) any animosity between the players has to be suspended until the little ones are out of the way.

Since there are anecdotes to back up both, I decided to look at each FBS program to see which schools are getting the best and worst bang for their buck.

I don't buy the b.s. here anymore then I do an extreme CIO book... which has it's own anecdotes and studies I might add.

According to the American Pregnancy Association (APA), support for this practice comes mainly from anecdotes, not from research, which is very thin.

So you offer up 2 completely unsubstantiated anecdotes to claim that hospital birth is dangerous while Dr. Tuteur analyzes multiple large scale studies to which she always links, and SHE is the one doing «bad science»?

I can see her dispensing all sorts of «advice» and anecdotes on how it was in her day, etc... I don't want her ruining these special moments by trying to «trump» my experience (which she has done the entire pregnancy).

Her blog often covers the hard work of motherhood, good and bad experiences, and humorous anecdotes, all of which she wants to leave as a legacy for her children.

This verges on the unethical when individuals are expected to part with money for a service or product that appears to have scientific support but when critically analysed offers no more evidence than opinions and anecdotes, which are notoriously unreliable and biased.

They know that birthing at home or in a birth center with a trained midwife is a very safe option with lower rates of interventions and high patient satisfaction but now you no longer have to search and search for studies regarding homebirth which are often buried by cultural anecdotes and message boards.

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.

It's a one hour discussion on the current political landscape and the cast of charisma - lite politicians which occupy it, with Richards serving up a mix that is part anecdote collection, part spoken political column, and part open forum.

Among the book's gazillion anecdotes worth a small yellow Post-It was Gordon Brown's reaction when advised by Sarah that he should spend his summer in the kind of holiday location which would be chosen by voters in middle England: «But I don't even know where Southwold is.»

As well as the rather crass attention - seeking, I was mocking the attempt to provide an «evidence base» with «at least one» anecdote from a country which everybody knows has liberal gun laws and a much higher murder rate.

Mr. Espaillat's campaign also made a statement available from the Dominican American National Roundtable, which called for the U.S. Department of Justice to step in and monitor the proceedings and provided a hotline available for individuals to share anecdotes of voter suppression.

All this comes out strikingly in his book, which is packed full of indiscrete anecdotes, including a fascinating one about Clegg and former Bank of England governor Mervyn King holding a summit on quantitative easing while in their underpants.

The opportunity is there but the means by which the Lib Dems capitalise on that opportunity are far from clear — especially when an anecdote about a curious boy and a dead pig gets more coverage in a day than the Lib Dem conference does over a week (having said that, Lib Dem conference delegates did squeal with excitement when they read about it, including myself, when I sent some late night trolling texts to my former Tory SpAd colleagues).

Hunt treated us with an anecdote about the Duke of Devonshire at the time «horrified by working class tourists», who didn't allow a rail link to Eastbourne, most of which he owned.

It is only an anecdote, which is not sufficient evidence to provide a general answer.

Cuomo also praised the diversity of the state and the Democratic Party, which he illustrated with a humorous (and perhaps embellished) anecdote: the high number of languages in which he was cursed as he directed traffic after a crane collapse on the Tappan Zee Bridge.

February 19: The Times runs a second story that is regarded as an «exposé,» which consists of a roundup of anecdotes about general laziness, cronyism, strange use of campaign funds, and incompetence.

For an upcoming Mind Matters column, I'm interested in thoughts from trainees and supervisors about ways in which you can make humor work for you... and anecdotes about the ways in which you have experienced humor as helpful or hurtful in your own lab.

During a match in which one team is trailing by four runs in the ninth inning, for example, the system might suggest an anecdote about the Los Angeles Dodgers, who came back to tie a game from the same situation in 2006 by hitting four consecutive home runs.

In telling his tales, Weiss seems to create his own personal event horizon, a charming screen of words and anecdotes behind which he conceals his deeper self.

You responded with dozens of photos and anecdotes revealing which devices you've held onto and why, and we're grateful for each and every one.

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