Sentences with phrase «good anecdote»

There are good anecdotes in there, but it probably wasn't as good a story as he could tell if he was minded to tell it....

I adore full pleated skirts, and you wear it so well Your anecdotes are so great, too, and the way you write draws me in immediately!

Customers who have chosen to participate in a loyalty program are likely to be far more receptive — and better able to provide better anecdotes — than people on a listing of your company's fans on social media sites.

I was talking to a Rovers fan in the pub the other week, already you're probably thinking `' well this anecdote is made up, what self respecting Wanderers fan would do such a thing `' but you'll have to take my word for it.

The topics of conversation include the pace and whether or not it's slow in comparison to today's films, Cruise's expressive left ear, and two good anecdotes describing difficulties for the young Cruise.

Although his heavily accented English is at times an impediment to understanding, he comes across as a humble and interesting guy, and also shares good anecdotes and practical filmmaking tips (shooting down directly into a flame will result in smoke damage to a camera, so use a mirror, kids!).

Rather than airy - fairy promises and feel - good anecdotes, he offers solid basic advice for the everyman and everywoman.

My experience, after all, is just «anecdotal» evidence; however, as any good conversationalist will assert: there really is nothing like a good anecdote to get the party started.

They allow for more personal stories as outfit posts can sometimes be a little dull sometimes unless there's a good anecdote for the outfit.

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Do you have a good anecdote about yourself?

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«MGSV is a tremendous piece of work and is one of the best anecdote generators I've ever played.

There's a good anecdote about how Steve McQueen discovered an actual fire on one of the sets in the studio and enthusiastically investigated it to learn more about his role.

There is at least a good anecdote about how four copies of Bottle Rocket, none of them opened, got Fed - Ex'd to Murray's house before he accepted the part in Rushmore.

They offer some good information has have some good anecdotes about the film, but they each sound as if they are about to fall asleep, so it can be difficult to sit through the talk.

Some of the better anecdotes and stories are buried within chapters that could have been shorter.

Vogels, a syndicated sex and relationship columnist in Canada, gathered the best anecdotes from her many straight, single, twenty - and thirty - something readers to write what she calls, a survival guide from the frontlines.

Crime novelist Laura Lippman has a good anecdote — a hilarious Mad Libs - style game in which she re-writes Franzen's Time cover story to feature herself, instead.

I recast a few of their best anecdotes in a historical milieu.

Avoiding a downturn feels good and makes a good anecdote, but that's not the same as making money.

Perhaps the best anecdote of the consequences of investor behavior comes from the legendary investor Peter Lynch.

Don't get me wrong, one good anecdote can deliver more information than a carefully controlled study.

Spicy Chile Tours offers free walking tours of Santiago, with a mix of historical information and the best anecdotes and recommendations for enjoying the city,

One of his best anecdotes concerns his turbulent years as a student at Yale in the early Sixties, where he came of age in an intensely creative milieu that included the artists Frank Stella, Chuck Close and Nancy Graves, a classmate who became his first wife.

Best anecdote is Justice Marshall narrating porn to the nearly blind Justice Harlan.

One of the best anecdotes I have ever heard relating to business development and legal practice was about Harvey Strosberg, who was, among other things, my class actions professor in third year of law school.

To his credit, a warning just in the nick of time could, hypothetically save a life, though at this point all of the evidence that Citizen's impact is net positive and not net negative is from isolated feel - good anecdotes, like Frame's awed account of a man using Citizen to rescue a baby from a hot car — an incident that I will not recount in detail here beyond saying that Citizen seems happy to celebrate incidents of citizen intervention so long as the outcome is positive.

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It turns out that participants» moods improved no matter what group they were in, suggesting that the passage of time (rather than any particular type of food) was the best anecdote for sadness.

«The best anecdotes are stories about yourself that get a laugh, such as a silly mistake you've made that everyone can relate to,» Lee says.