Sentences with phrase «cautionary tale»

Facebook is quickly becoming a prolific purveyor of modern cautionary tales for entrepreneurs.

Seth Price's loosely knotted ropes, strewn across sheets of foam printed with patterns familiar from checkbooks and other banking sources, could be too coy by half as cautionary tales of art - market bondage.

Though it's sad to hear about such stories and the losses these people suffered, many times they'll serve as cautionary tales about how not to live in North San Jose.

A person has to evenly split their time between, house, career, and family, and The Paper works best as cautionary tale about finding that balance in one's life.

But if the idea is to blow up traditional school systems around the country this way, there may be as much cautionary tale in New Orleans as success story.

In May, three more corrupt New York State lawmakers are expected to join the jumpsuited ranks, three more cautionary tales from a State Legislature with no apparent shortage of them.

Digital marketing guides are filled with cautionary tales of social media faux pas that have caused brand suicide.

Not only does it provide context for many struggling students, it also provides cautionary tales for those who consider education irrelevant.

The bad guys teach us what not to do and offer cautionary tales about what we stand to lose if we're tempted to follow a similar path.

There is no shortage of cautionary tales on owning this breed and we wanted to make sure we were making an informed decision.

And those that do will become cautionary tales for other GM's.

The history of baseball isn't just decades of Tony Batista - like cautionary tales.

Douglas Wight has just completed his first self - published book and has a more cautionary tale to tell.

It's a wonderfully told cautionary tale about the downside of getting what you wish for.

Cautionary tale here!

I can't see most political operations trying anything this, er, subtle, but it's still a good cautionary tale for anyone trying to do a clever viral campaign.

The history of investing is full of cautionary tales regarding the use of leverage to enhance returns, and how it is your best friend until it becomes your worst enemy.

«Celebrates the contributions of paralegals and legal assistants across the country (as well as sharing a few cautionary tales).

This story of the demise of Kodak is an important cautionary tale for law firms in the current market environment.

The people of Liberty Township wove her into cautionary tales of the wages of sin and travel.

The most recent cautionary tale comes from North Carolina, where professors at Duke have traced a troubling trend of resegregation since the first charters opened in 1997.

Such cautionary tales make British Columbia's carbon pricing experiment all the more remarkable (see sidebar for the elements).

The book also includes cautionary tales on how not to do green marketing, such as Nestle.

Despite being written by a «data scientist,» this is a very accessible book that provides some good cautionary tales illustrating how things can go bad under the algorithmic hood.

My Big Coin might be the latest cautionary tale in the vast sea of coin scams, but it and the others we know now are just the tip of the iceberg.

As far as cautionary tales go, The Lazarus Effect is pretty good stuff overall and effectively rises above its mild approach to deliver a thoughtful and intense horror experience that I had a lot of fun with despite all its flaws.

In what is turning into a real cautionary tale for the cryptocurrency community about the need to be wary of celebrity's power, along with skepticism about most initial coin offerings (ICOs), the US Securities and...

Science fiction offers many cautionary tales about cyborgs and the dangers of becoming less and less human.

Much more than a sports film, Lucy Walker's Oscar - shortlisted The Crash Reel is a thrilling, inspiring, yet cautionary tale about extreme sports that never trades on sentiment.

An exercise in sober drama and a middle - class cautionary tale which explores a family ripped up by the roots after the rape of a 14 - year - old girl.

Jedd Gyorko has been dreadful for about 14 months now, and he has a chance to be the league's greatest cautionary tale when it comes to long - term deals for pre-arbitration players.

A cartoonist, novelist and screenwriter, Alex Garland, who's most commonly known for writing films such as The Beach, 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Never Let Me Go, and Dredd, has now made his directorial debut with Ex Machina, a sci - fi cautionary tale that challenges viewers with a variety of existential questions in regards to artificial intelligence.

In fact, despite cautionary tales of employers trolling social networking sites to find inappropriate Halloween pictures or drug slang laced in discussion forums, many employers are increasingly using these sites as a way to find talent.

Shekhar Parmar, director of the Calgary office at legal recruiter The Counsel Network, says Canadian firms may be particularly wary of overpaid rainmaking because of this country's own cautionary tale in the 2007 dissolution of Goodman and Carr LLP.

Darwin's Nightmare is many things, including an environmental cautionary tale, a critique of globalization and a portrait of a community, country and continent in deep crisis.

A more recent cautionary tale involved the costly unwinding of the Stronach family's control of Magna International Inc. (TSX: MG).

«The Columbia [River] is a great cautionary tale as they consider what to do about the salmon situation up there,» says the director of a new PBS documentary, Salmon: Running the Gauntlet, Jim Norton.

Refn's brief and disastrous flirt with Hollywood in the early 2000s is well documented, but as as a valuable cautionary tale for aspiring directors everywhere it's a story that's worth retelling.

With its circular arc of soul - searching and redemption, «Groundhog Day» has become a modern cautionary tale — «A Christmas Carol» for contemporary times that people watch, again and again.

Zac Bissonnette's latest book, The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute, is a fascinating cautionary tale about where financial hysteria can lead — and who gets hurt when a bubble abruptly pops.

Superbad is a coming - of - age cautionary tale about two socially inept teenage boys about to graduate high school.

Thanks to Mackay's vivid account, tulips are a well - known cautionary tale, applied to asset bubbles of all types; here's the problem, though: there's a decent chance Mackay's account is completely wrong.

Dan survived, but his story and the picture above are both crazy and terrifying cautionary tales for behavior around sea lions.

With admirable economy, writer - director Billy Senese has crafted an eerie piece that's as much an effective cautionary tale as it is a stirring film of ideas — and ideals.

The film combines a compelling cautionary tale with innovative cinematography to tell a tale that, with luck, we will never witness again in our lifetime.

It starts with a traveler (Letitia Wright, of the upcoming Black Panther movie) visiting a distant roadside attraction called the Black Museum — which, like Black Mirror itself, is devoted to high - tech cautionary tales.