Sentences with phrase «cautionary tales on»

Suddenly, a book about pigs taking over a farm begins to serve as a cautionary tale on how political dogma can be turned into malleable propaganda.

It's a cautionary tale on the fickle fortunes of social media, but also a reminder of the size of the stakes.

There is so much to love here, from the US Customs - type method that is used to determine who is permitted to leave the Land of the Dead, to the story's cautionary tale on the price of fame.

Glenn Ford and Sidney Poitier star in the rough - and - tumble cautionary tale on juvenile delinquency, Blackboard Jungle (1955), while Joan Crawford and Clark Gable get their Busby Berkeley on in the splashy MGM musical Dancing Lady (1933).

Considering its premise of choice, Geostorm could have been an important and a compelling cautionary tale on the impacts of climate change on the world and humanity as a whole.

Besides, this is a cautionary tale on what not to do.

An important, if short, cautionary tale on being dependent on any single foreign source of energy.

JC Penney delivered a live - action cautionary tale on this topic just a few years ago.

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Yet in a recent Harvard Business Review article titled «The Authenticity Paradox,» Insead professor Herminia Ibarra discusses interesting research on the subject and tells the cautionary tale of a newly promoted general manager who admitted to subordinates that she felt scared in her expanded role, asking them to help her succeed.

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

Instead, it's a cautionary tale that's increasingly common: A slick crowdfunding campaign that rockets off based solely on the hype of the crowd before there is any evidence that the idea is feasible or that the campaigners have any idea what they're doing.

Argentina is one of the toughest business climates on earth, and, in some circles at least, a cautionary tale for U.S. policymaking.

As it turns out, however, the company was operating on a foundation of lies and half - truths that have caused the one - time Silicon Valley darling to become a cautionary tale.

We've always been told to be careful about what we post on the Internet, with cautionary tales stretching as far back as the «Numa Numa Guy.»

By now, it's a well - known cautionary tale: a startup builds the best, most innovative, most cost - effective tool on the market, but then can't find anyone to buy it.

The last time a president slapped tariffs on steel offers an illuminating lesson — and cautionary tale — for Trump's new policy.

But she apparently missed all the cautionary tales of abuse heaped on beauty brands such as SheaMoisture, Dove, L'Oreal's Elvive and more in social media the past year over slights against women of color — either real or highly enhanced by the outrage machine.

The main argument for evergreen funding for new ventures are the cautionary tales of startups that grew too fast and quickly outpaced their business model to the point that a profitable business on one scale becomes a ruined venture on the larger scale.

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.

The new cautionary tales center on how life may have to be brought to an end if people live indefinitely long in good health and just get tired of it all.

Hotel mini bars are often featured in cautionary tales of stale chips and high markups, but there is one South Beach hotel ready to take on that stereotype.

Not long ago he shared a cautionary tale from the work of Chuck Brodsky, whose 2002 album The Baseball Ballads includes the story of Fred (Bonehead) Merkle, who cost the 1908 Giants a chance to win the pennant when as a base runner he failed to tag second base on what would have been a walk - off single.

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.

Theirs is a cautionary tale to those following the same well - trodden path and coming up quickly on the outside.

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.

Here's a cautionary tale lawmakers will likely forget all about in 10 years when the next round of redistricting comes up — unless Cuomo's constitutional amendment on redistricting reform passes and turns out to be effective.

Although the Eloi - Morlock relationship was clearly meant to serve as a cautionary tale of the horrors of class distinction, Wells imagined a biological phenomenon remarkably similar to what scientists like Pfennig and his colleagues are working on today.

► Martin Enserink reported on a cautionary tale for animal researchers in a Wednesday ScienceInsider.

Or the survey for astronomy might continue on schedule without knowing whether Webb will be successful, particularly if it treats the troubled telescopes as first and foremost a cautionary tale against similarly ambitious future missions.

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.

This Replication Study represents a cautionary tale concerning the impact of biological variability on experimental design.

They say the fall of the Ptolemaic Kingdom offers a cautionary tale for all regions that currently depend on monsoons — an estimated 70 percent of the world's population.

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

My patient Liz's story is a cautionary tale of what can happen when we focus solely on managing pain of endometriosis with medication, rather than getting to the root causes.

She has also taken her blog and turned it into a book of funny stories, cautionary tales, and tips on dating.

A far as you're concerned, getting scammed is something that happens to other people in the cautionary tales told on the local news.

«The Post» works on many levels, from polemic and thinly veiled cautionary tale to fun period piece and rip - roaring newspaper yarn.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

While this eagerly - anticipated cautionary tale of Orwellian dimensions does address a litany of timely themes ranging from greed to loyalty to exploitation to corruption, it nevertheless remains, at heart, a high attrition - rate, splatter flick designed to satiate the bloodlust of kids weaned on gory computer games.

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.

In The Shadow Of Women, an unexpectedly funny relationship cautionary tale from the doomy and poetic Philippe Garrel, centers on a hypocritical documentary filmmaker who cheats on his wife, but can't stand the thought of her with another man.

by Walter Chaw A predictably disturbing take on Hans Christian Andersen's cautionary tale of the importance of conformity and the dangers of female sexual awakening, the diminutive heroine of Don Bluth and Gary Goldman's Thumbelina arrives in the slow blossoming of a rose.

It's a cautionary tale with a riveting performance by Dern and - get this - a prog - folk soundtrack by Joan Baez that acts as a kind of musical chorus to the events on screen.

Whatever the case, «Every Secret Thing» is a misfire on multiple levels, only slightly redeemed by yet another good performance from a Fanning and some strong supporting work on the fringe of this cautionary tale.

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.

Unfortunately for Sarandon, she can't coast on nostalgia to the degree that De Niro and Stallone did, since Pearl is next to impossible to play: a font of maternal wisdom who's also an incongruously self - destructive cautionary tale.