Sentences with phrase «cautionary tales we tell»

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.

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

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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 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.

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.»

The cautionary tale of the 2012 Rangers tells us that there's no such thing as sustainable perfection.

The nineteenth - century survivors of the infamous Donner Party told cautionary tales of starvation and cannibalism, greed and self - sacrifice.

The film combines a compelling cautionary tale with innovative cinematography to tell a tale that, with luck, we will never witness again in our lifetime.

In «Texting While Dating: A Cautionary Tale,» Molly tells the story of a dating faux pas wherein she took a screenshot of her exchange with a love interest to send to Alaina (who'd offered to give her some friendly dating advice), but she accidentally sent it to... her love interest.

This biography tells a cautionary tale of Glenn Ford's relentless infidelities and long, slow fade - out, but it also embraces his talent - driven career.

And since the film is told from David's point of view, there are also similarities to «rise and fall» / «cautionary tale» Scorsese films like Goodfellas and The Wolf of Wall Street in particular.

Much like The Big Short, there are spurts of comedy throughout, but the heart of the film is dramatic and tells a cautionary tale.

In some ways Gaghan, working from a script by Lara Croft: Tomb Raider screenwriters Patrick Massett and John Zinman, wants to tell a cautionary tale reminiscent of what ends up happening to Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

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.

In an EdCast taped on Monday, Professor Daniel Koretz — author of Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us — calls the APS cheating case «the canary in the coal mine,» a cautionary tale about pressure «to raise scores at any cost.»

This is a hard story to tell, but I want to share it with you in the hope that it will serve as a cautionary tale.

It's a wonderfully told cautionary tale about the downside of getting what you wish for.

Can Aaron learn from his mistakes and discover the real key to a wealthy future?This delightful, illustrated poem tells the cautionary tale of a humble market trader, Aaron, who falls for a con man's trick and risks losing it all, but is saved by his sister and some great advice about the magic of compound interest.Pick up The Magic Money Tree today to uncover the true secret to wealth...

Douglas Wight has just completed his first self - published book and has a more cautionary tale to tell.

The short answer: «pretty well,» but there is a cautionary tale to be told.

My dad likes to tell this story at cocktail parties, as a cautionary tale to young people.

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

Various members of the art world followed all of this testimony intently, including a documentary filmmaker who always took the same seat in the front row; a reporter from the Art Newspaper who usually had her highly entertained boyfriend with her; a lawyer working on a screenplay about the Knoedler saga; numerous dealers and appraisers who all came and took notes, treating the trial like a cautionary tale; and one very pregnant art adviser who told me that she canceled a sonogram so she wouldn't miss anything.

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).