Sentences with phrase «cautionary tales make»

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

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«We think it's a very strong judgment, and a cautionary tale for people who make or use sound - alikes around the world,» said Adam Simpson, a Sydney - based lawyer who represented Eminem publisher Eight Mile Style.

The negative attention that Honest Company's liquid laundry detergent has received recently serve as a cautionary tale to product producers: a company's ability to verify how products are made and what they are made of diminishes with the length of the supply chain.

It is Hamlet's emphasis on what has been called the «incomprehensibility of man» that makes the play something of a cautionary tale for the modern pastor.

Also I made the mistake of trying paper towel instead of a tea towel and that did not work at all - cautionary tale to anybody who thinks they just had a great idea!

It took the cautionary tale of the 2012 Rangers, then, to make me okay with the Scherzer deal, just as it will make me okay with almost any trade the Nationals make at the deadline.

Dupre also revealed she's just «living like a normal girl», but is thinking of writing a book that would be a «cautionary tale» to help other kids avoid making the same mistakes that she did.

This isn't purely a historical exercise but a practical one — a cautionary tale showing how to avoid repeating the same mistake we made with the shuttle.

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.

But the simplicity of the formula makes the film read like a cautionary tale that a traveling troupe of actors would perform for medieval villagers.

Once upon a time, a movie about the Pentagon Papers could have been framed as a cautionary tale, but now it only makes sense as an unabashed crowdpleaser.

The ambiguity Mr. Naranjo has stripped away from Ms. Zúñiga's cautionary tale is hardly made up for on the back end.

An original, well - crafted plea that uses restraint instead of titillation to make a cautionary tale that aches with pathos and power.

Parent Previews Perspective: Again, this story of dysfunctional adults that continue to make bad choices is hard to recommend, except perhaps as a cautionary tale.

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 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.

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.

Fresh from making his film debut in the wild party found - footage Project X, Jonathan Daniel Brown then took the lead in another hedonistic tale, but one based on a cautionary true story.

The precision research makes for a comprehensive and cautionary tale of tragedy.

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.

And for all of Spielberg and Lucas» enthusiasm in remembering the advances that made «Jurassic Park» possible in 1993, only production designer Rick Carter recognizes the parallel between the film's cautionary tale about unchecked technology and how the movie helped usher in an era when digital effects were the new stars of summer blockbusters.

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.

«Somersault» is a refreshing cautionary tale that makes its points without pandering, preaching, exploiting or judging its tragically flawed protagonist.

One teacher told a cautionary tale of having to put the kibosh on a project that had been months in the making, due to a parent rejection.

I wrote an Ed Week op - ed back during the summer that suggested Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's $ 100 million gift to Newark was in many ways a cautionary tale of the mistakes that philanthropists make.

I've chosen this one as a cautionary tale — the poor students who made this «Gangnam Style» parody for a class project have had their video universally heralded as the «Worst Video on the Entire Internet.»

«A naturally gifted storyteller, Simmons, has put her heart and soul into this cautionary tale of perseverance, hope and strength... This is the story of how Pecan finally finds her strength, and when she does it will make you want to cheer.»

In a cautionary tale that began in 2006, Warren Buffett made a bet with Ted Seides, a former co-manager of Protege Partners, that he could earn a greater return by «holding the market», with an initial $ 1 million investment.

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It was a cautionary tale more than a celebration of fell powers, and the details present in side quests and offhand remarks made it clear that the developers of Shadow of Mordor knew exactly where the game was celebrating Tolkien's mythos and where it was turning that mythos on its head.

She is also known for her intricate garment sculptures, and her acclaimed wedding dress «A Mixture of Frailties» made from hundreds of rubber gloves — a kind of cautionary tale about domestic reality — will be on display at this debut solo show.

Fielding represents a cautionary tale for any counsel attempting to make a 50 - 50 NDI spousal support argument, and Jackson affirms that you can lose at trial even if you don't show up.

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.

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.

Creator Jérôme Blanquet isn't making a cautionary tale so much as a fever dream, exploring what it might look like if present - day AIs» mass data mining got very, very personal.

Tiger Woods, who become his own cautionary tale, makes his biggest pitch for a redemptive comeback this week.

She also told a cautionary tale about making a representative body «too big» and unmanageable, as she believes had happened with ATSIC (particularly in its early years).

That higher ground might look windy and exposed, making that cosy little nook at the bottom of the hill all the more appealing, but Simon has this cautionary tale: «I once saw a small tent pitched in a sheltered dip in a field.