Sentences with phrase «cautionary tale which»

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.

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The latest cautionary tale comes via Slate, which on Monday published a would - be bombshell titled: «Was a Trump Server Communicating With Russia?»

It is a hamfisted cautionary tale about global warming (which, via the film's scientific hand - waving, produces an ice age), but it also functions as a powerful 9/11 allegory, celebrating the ability of New Yorkers to unify in the face of tragedy.

Last May, when Wisnefski launched WebiMax, which owns several consumer websites, he recounted the cautionary tale during a meeting with his new management team.

Meanwhile, the way in which the modeling business had leaped to television was, to Caplan, less an inspiration than a cautionary tale.

The crisis, which has affected every level of government in the state, is a cautionary tale for not only public spending run amok but also independent investors taking too large of a risk by seeking high yields.

Cautionary tales include solar panels, in which a rapid industry build - out, driven by regulatory mandate or other top - down development initiatives, led to too many participants, which drove profitability lower.

The Nationals are clearly the best team in baseball, which means it's time to look for cautionary tales.

After all, lightning rarely strikes twice, as the old saying goes, and Leeds are a glaringly obvious cautionary tale illustrating that fallen giants can endure protracted exiles from the top flight due to precisely the combination of on - field failure and off - field folly and mismanagement for which our club has become renowned.

The fate of the Social Democratic Party — which saw centrist MPs defect from Labour to form an ill - fated moderate rival in 1981 — offers a cautionary tale of what can happen to those who leave the safety of an established major party to go it alone in the British electoral system.

Which is why Andrews is to be initially commended for opening up his life, using his cautionary tale to illustrate the greater story of the mortgage crisis.

Cuomo pointed to the Dallas case as a cautionary tale — in which a man who was apparently exposed to Ebola in Liberia was allowed to fly to Texas.

The history of this disease, which first struck Malaysia in 1999, offers a cautionary tale of how a potential pandemic was averted.

Finally, I come to a specific case, which is a sad and cautionary tale for high - energy physicists.

That's the cautionary tale from a new study in the journal Parasites & Vectors, which found that ticks in urban parks in Delaware dominated by an invasive rose bush were nearly twice as likely to be infected with Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, as compared to ticks from uninvaded forest fragments.

Like many tales about the good vs. the evil, the evil mostly steals the show from the good in «The Devil and Daniel Webster» (1941), a cautionary moral tale based on Stephen Vincent Benét's short story which is sort of a New England version of the tale of Faust.

Although Click starts out with the seemingly obligatory gross - out humour with which he made his name, Sandler and director Frank Coraci rapidly transition this film into cautionary tale and life lesson.

It's a cautionary tale of collective malpractice and personal greed all converging at a moment which helped set about the global economic downturn, and the production design (by regular Wong Kar - wai collaborator William Chang) opts to remove all walls from the aesthetic equation as a way to emphasise that, even though it's a culture which thrives on secrets and subterfuge, there really is nowhere to hide your dirty laundry.

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.

A sprawling cautionary tale about the evils of the internet, Men, Women & Children examines the ways in which the internet affects the way we connect as human beings.

While no information was divulged on the budget size for this rom sci - fi (which sounds like a nerdy cautionary tale for the tinder age a la I Origins), we're fairly certain that if Doremus has had time to insert any sci - fi special effects, it could land an acquisitions friendly slot.

Glacial, but unexpectedly funny in spots, the latest from the reigning king of «style for style's sake» is a cautionary tale about beauty and the fashion industry in which everyone looks like a vampire and every scene sounds like it was recorded in a mausoleum.

This riveting cautionary tale, which flies by despite being two - hours in length, revolves around the portly Romeo's juggling his homegirls and groupies while indulging in the sort of conspicuous consumption celebrated in the typical rap video.

A film that at times slips into a cautionary tale but neither condemns nor condones the way in which characters seek to achieve.

Perhaps the fate of Patti Cake $, which Fox Searchlight Pictures bought out of the festival last year for $ 9.5 million and made $ 1.5 at the box office, served as a kind of cautionary tale.

That's the meat, more fetid than fresh, that Nicolas Winding Refn tears his teeth into with The Neon Demon, which gives a deep - red (and Deep Red) paint job to the most moribund of cautionary tales: the rise and fall of a bright - eyed ingenue.

To further consider JUPITER»S MOON, in which refugees are being chased and shot down by Hungarian police Holocaust - style, THE FLORIDA PROJECT, where hidden homelessness eats away the American dream for children born in impoverished households, and LOVELESS, a cautionary tale that sheds light on issues of abandonment and toxic selfishness seen in: no wonder everybody just wants to die in HAPPY END?

There's so much deep and fascinating detail to cover in Kill the Messenger, it's a wonder the film didn't get swallowed up by the multiple strands which lay between conspiracy thriller, journalistic cautionary tale and biopic.

It provides cautionary tales about the importance of getting programmes like mentoring right and positive suggestions on which strategies do most to boost attainment.»

It's the first in a planned trilogy that is partly a psychological thriller with strong sci - fi overtones (which I suspect will become stronger as the series develops), partly a cautionary tale of modern life, but mainly good old escapist fun (think 1984 meets The Matrix).

However, it is also a deliciously complicated literary thriller set in two time periods with three narrative perspectives, which also serves as a fine cautionary tale.

His latest book, The Upgrade: A Cautionary Tale of a LifeWithout Reservations, tells the painfully true story of how Paul came tolive in hotels, and how the adventures which followed almost killed him.http: / / www.paulcarr.com

Hari's little story is intended to be a cautionary tale about which kind of expertise is pertinent, but it fails, as so many dumbed - down analogies fail.

What began as an epic quest to find a solution to running a whole country without oil, by developing an ambitious electric car battery swapping scheme, ended up becoming a cautionary tale of spectacular failure which was fueled by creative math and the willful ignorance of its CEO.

At the ABA TECHSHOW earlier this year, Michael Mills, co-founder of Neota Logic, (who Tim also mentioned in this morning's post) veered away from cautionary tales about strong AI to talk modestly about expert systems which live farther down the AI food chain.

The way in which partisanship has come to shape our justice system is evolving in the shadow of a cautionary tale to our south.

Although the European Commission made what we believe were a series of mistakes in the early stages of implementing the platform — such as diverting funds towards third - party projects that never came to fruition or not following through with its original plans, which including labels and partnerships with major European commercial sites — , all of which have undeniably had a role to play in the lack of success of this enterprise, ECODIR mostly serves as a cautionary tale regarding the issue of funding online dispute resolution systems.

Lord Justice Wall said the case was «a cautionary tale, which all unmarried couples who are contemplating the purchase of residential property as their home, and all solicitors who advise them, should study».

The half a billion dollar theft in Japan on the Coincheck Exchange could be a cautionary tale for Taiwan, which has been looking to possibly fill the cryptocurrency void in Asia following the crackdowns in China and South Korea.

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.