Sentences with phrase «cautionary tales go»

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.

Plus, it's hard not to read into the «margin of error» political talk as a cautionary tale going into the 2016 election.

Not exact matches

The tragedy may have provided a cautionary tale to a young Jobs, since it's the story of an aged monarch going crazy trying to divide up his kingdom.

When the company went under in 2001, after only four years in business, it became a cautionary tale.

This is my cautionary tale of gambling gone astray...

There's something to be said about doing just that but there are cautionary tales in players going back following a successful stay only to become complacent without the same level of challenge facing them and instead stagnating, sitting on their potential.

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.

The police still haven't grasped that central tenant of the cautionary tales we tell children: if you cry wolf too many times the public might just go and decide you can't be trusted.

While the cautionary tales of «love gone bad» are ever abundant, sometimes hope springs eternal and you may find yourself considering «giving it another go.»

Every week, someone's in the news with a cautionary tale of online love gone wrong.

While Kerrigan went on to enjoy lucrative endorsement deals, Harding became a cautionary tale and a punchline.

Jennifer Lawrence in a serious movie is starting to feel like an automatic nomination (she's getting that Meryl Streep nomination thing going), but will enough Academy fogies sit through one of Aronofsky's dark and dirty cautionary tales to make the film itself a player?

Screenwriter Andrew Niccol, who penned the genetic engineering gone rampant cautionary tale Gattaca, also makes some points about our media obsessed society.

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 retrospect, all seem to understand that Never Say Never Again is perhaps best regarded as a cautionary tale: When a movie like this is produced as a simple prerogative of copyright, no one's going to feel terribly passionate about it.

More often than not, filmmakers go the dystopia route, creating meta cautionary tales.

But this brief, sketchy movie about that «anything goes era» can never decide if it wants to be history, amusing satire, or tragic cautionary tale.

There is a way to go about making these movies, and a way to create a cautionary tale that can be a prototype for what not to do in order to keep the momentum going.

While Ingrid Goes West is a nerve - wracking cautionary tale, it's also a surprisingly entertaining indie comedy about the obsessive desire for attention in the internet age.

What could have become a trite, overwrought, emotional depiction of «woman goes mad with grief, and is further corrupted by power» and, therefore, a backwards - looking cautionary tale, is, instead, presented as moving and human.

Laugh all you want, but there's a cautionary tale here: If you have a spending problem, automate your monthly mortgage payments so that the money goes straight from your bank account to your mortgage servicer — effectively removing the temptation to burn the cash on a shopping spree.

Someday his work editing Wikipedia content about climate is going to be a cautionary tale about the dangerous frontier between politics and science.

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.

While libel laws in the UK may make going after Twitter users easier in that country, this is still a cautionary tale for users of social media.

And, of course, if we weren't taken seriously, we weren't going to make a difference other than, perhaps, serving as a cautionary tale.

The case may serve as a cautionary tale of what can go wrong for separated or divorced parents who plan to take their children in or out of the country on holidays this summer.

While Middle - earth: Shadow of War mostly escaped the intense scrutiny and anger directed at two of 2017's biggest loot box / microtransaction cautionary tales, those being the much - maligned Destiny 2 and the even - more - widely - detested Star Wars: Battlefront II, the game was nonetheless «review bombed» on platforms such as Steam and Metacritic by gamers who were unhappy about Middle - earth: Shadow of War's monetization system, and it thus went on to become a popular example among pundits of the dangers behind poor implementation of microtransactions and loot box economies in triple - A video game releases.

One notable example being that of a certain Yale Graduate in real life who wished to sashay into a high profile Investment banking job with a video resume that went overboard in its attempt to establish him as the perfect candidate — but ended up at somewhat of a joke, as well being a cautionary tale of what not to try while looking to garner the attention of the HR managers and recruiters in a subtly professional manner.