Sentences with phrase «cautionary tales about»

It is a project with many precedents in American history, quite a few of them cautionary tales about what happens when a powerful corporation takes control of civic life.

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.

It is sold in TV commercials and infomercials featuring celebrity endorsements, cheesy acting and cautionary tales about elderly couples who didn't have life insurance.

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.

Both stories provide cautionary tales about the importance of staying calm and reading situations correctly; but in the first case, because of lost credibility, a real hazard is discounted, whereas in the second, an imagined hazard leads to panic.»

There are numerous cautionary tales about pet store purchases.

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

Cautionary tales about lying are found in Pinocchio and Little Secrets.

Laura has heard cautionary tales about sugar dating too, like the friend who caught a sugar daddy slipping something into her drink.

In short, the long history of cautionary tales about the implications of a radically longer life has now given way to a newly envisioned, upbeat old age.

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.

For would - be Amazon partners, this is just the latest cautionary tale about the risks of doing business with the online retail giant: No matter what the company says, there are no equal partnerships when Amazon is involved.

The boycott is a cautionary tale about the risks entrepreneurs take, and it's also a marketing lesson about knowing your customers, and getting in front of the story you tell about your brand.

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.

The Streisand Effect, named for its namesake Barbra and an ill - fated lawsuit, should serve as a cautionary tale about bad press.

It's a cautionary tale about coping with a disrupted marketplace.

It's an oft - cited cautionary tale about the dangers of a prolonged sports work stoppage.

This should be a cautionary tale about what happens when a publicly traded company misplays a political issue.

Social Capital's staff acknowledges that Facebook's comeuppance is a cautionary tale about unintended consequences.

But it's also nothing to be commended as a model for others, except as a cautionary tale about the effects of surrendering to the spirit of the age.

Easter is coming soon, so we figured now would be a good time to post this classic video as a cautionary tale about the dangers of using pyrotechnics at church.

What starts as a standard «follow your dream» story arc slowly becomes a perplexing cautionary tale about the potential dangers of ambition, even when it appears to be totally innocent.

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It's a cautionary tale about overrating raw talent against all the other things a franchise QB has to do.

Of course there was great deal of «well, if you had the baby at home none of this would have happened» from many friends an acquaintances... and complete strangers who had heard my story second hand as a cautionary tale about hospital birth.

It's a cautionary tale about the vulnerability of island populations today.

He sees a cautionary tale about the dangers to human survival, and yet the planets he studies have made him unexpectedly bullish on life's cosmic prospects.

From the squishy world of butterfly genetics, a cautionary tale about the importance of taxonomy

Away from the hype, Jurassic Park was at heart a cautionary tale about the dangers of doing science without thought for its consequences.

It's an important cautionary tale about how willing we are to believe media stories based on the flimsiest of evidence.

The fear of the inner city dirt and grit and slime exploited bigtime with this cautionary tale about a innocent and naïve businessman -LRB-?!?) seduced into an affair that explodes in his face quite literally.

[A] tantalizing fluffy cautionary tale about the urge toward self - destruction and just how larger - than - life one's own life could become, or at least if you're likely to remain the year's most unreliable onscreen narrator.

Plagues & Pleasures is more than a cautionary tale about the dangers of messing with nature.

Spanning consumerism, beauty, gender, body commodification, aging and more, Greenfield has created a comprehensive cautionary tale about a culture heading straight for the cliff's edge.

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.

Sure, it's a cautionary tale about the pitfalls of fame.

The film will likely end up as much of a true story drama as a cautionary tale about privacy, data mining and more.

Amid familiar themes of obsession, psychosis and gender politics, this stylish cautionary tale about foreigners in strange lands manages to generate consistent suspense within an intriguing moral framework while avoiding genre pitfalls.

If she had not spent so much time enjoying herself with her extended family of friends and lovers of both genders, then this could have easily just been another cautionary tale about becoming a success too soon.

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.

That it simultaneously spawned a genre of crap in a devolution chart from its already low bar to the bonding - over-cannibalism flick Fried Green Tomatoes to the bonding - over-coprophagia flick The Help functions as a cautionary tale about what happens when you, Titanic - like, find a new field to strip - mine.

LOOPER is a cautionary tale about quick fixes, personal responsibility, and the difference between knowledge and wisdom.

It's a cautionary tale about the lure of fantasy making of the audience a stolen child, but unlike The Dreamers, its ultimate message isn't one of being deposited into the empty yawp of a sea of teeming extras, but of finding in an infancy of dreaming the seeds of individualism and poetry.

War Dogs feels like a cautionary tale about excess instead of an exposé of how the worship of money may finally be the thing that brings down all of it.

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Despite some snazzy camera angles and showoff - y technique, «Limitless» dashes any hopes of originality when it ends up being nothing more than a cautionary tale about drug addiction.

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.

Jack Paglen's screenplay offers a cautionary tale about our blind acceptance of the invasion of technology.

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

A cautionary tale about parenting, the movie introduces a filmmaker who grounds fantasy in an unnerving level of naturalism, who can draw deeply human performances, and who knows what scares you.