Sentences with phrase «into cautionary tales»

The people of Liberty Township wove her into cautionary tales of the wages of sin and travel.

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.

A film that at times slips into a cautionary tale but neither condemns nor condones the way in which characters seek to achieve.

«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.»

Not exact matches

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.

Read the cautionary tales of 3 entrepreneurs who were duped into bad business decisions but continued to thrive.

A cautionary tale: Tereson Dupuy launched her online cloth - diaper business FuzziBunz three years into her marriage.

Its descent into chaos should serve as just the latest cautionary tale to other countries that are willing to risk stability and prosperity for even more socialism.

More importantly for today's Republican leaders of the House and Senate, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, respectively, the story of how Cleveland winged himself back into office presents a cautionary tale that should dissuade their embrace of the current president's more protectionist proclivities.

It is Card's depiction of how a society slips into civil war, presented as a cautionary tale for an America polarized by ideology.

Greider's experience — recently highlighted in Merchants of Immortality (see» Advanced Sell Technology»)-- is a cautionary tale for any academic who's considering a foray into industry, whether by joining, founding, or collaborating with a company.

Rochelle Sturtevant, an ecologist who studies the Great Lakes for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, hopes Leprieur's study can serve as a cautionary tale as developing nations join the global market and undertake activities that threaten to introduce exotic species into their relatively pristine ecosystems.

Let this guy's story of a smoke break that turned into a 41 - hour captivity be a cautionary tale.

Before we get into shoulder anatomy, the best shoulder exercises, and how to develop the ultimate shoulder workout routine, here's a little cautionary tale...

An amazing read that acts both as a cautionary tale and a witty insight into the highs and lows of dating.

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

Laura has heard cautionary tales about sugar dating too, like the friend who caught a sugar daddy slipping something into her drink.

The fear of the inner city dirt and grit and slime exploited bigtime with this cautionary tale about a innocent and naïve businessman -LRB-?!?) seduced into an affair that explodes in his face quite literally.

Without the stone - age shredding that was once this band's life purpose, Used Future is just nostalgic affectation, with the added anti-bonus of pushing frontman John D. Cronise's Ozzy - lite enunciations and corny lyrics — like those of the vixen - fearing cautionary tale «Deadly Nightshade» — into the unflattering limelight.

Much of that is because the cautionary tale of that time has turned into reality.

Splice, directed by Vincenzo Natali and written by Vincenzo Natali and Antoinette Terry Bryant, is yet another scifi movie that delves into the ages old cautionary tale of of what happens when humankind attempts to «play God» through reckless scientific research.

The only time «bloodsuckers» are ever mentioned is in the picture's opening scene, at that referring to a mosquito; if not for a few genuinely effective scenes of bloodletting, Near Dark would serve perfectly as a cautionary drug tale of a small - town boy pulled into a nocturnal cycle of angry fixes and naked lunches.

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.

«Napoleon Dynamite» director Jared Hess turns real - life fumbled felony into sweetly amusing cautionary tale of blind love

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

Despite the fact that you can never change a first impression, Hello Games is proving you can do a hell of a lot in terms of repairing an image and is turning No Man's Sky from a cautionary tale of hype and over promises into an example of how a game can redeem itself over time.

That's the meat, more fetid than fresh, that Nicolas Winding Refn tears his teeth into with The Neon Demon, which gives a deep - red (and Deep Red) paint job to the most moribund of cautionary tales: the rise and fall of a bright - eyed ingenue.

Perhaps that concern was justified, as its typical dystopian cautionary tale never elevates itself into new territory.

Written and adapted during the 1980s» height of the Cold War, Wind appears to be a cautionary tale, designed to shake viewers into awareness of the potential horrors of nuclear war and to remind them of the atrocities of past wars.

With such screenwriting credentials and illustrious cast at the helm, it would be safe to assume that Fogelman should be able to elevate the over-familiar narrative of sentimental self - discovery into a refreshingly contemporary and cautionary tale about the malignancy of greed and success.

With Sorry to Bother You, the first - time filmmaker has taken the shopworn cautionary tale of the ambitious young professional who doesn't realize he's sold out until it's too late, and turned it into an absurdist sociopolitical satire that's by turns hilarious and horrifying.

I wish Stoller had been more willing to simply throw us full bore into the train wreck that is Aldous's life — you know, like This Is Spinal Tap did with its horrifying rock star idiots we couldn't look away from — but I'm struck with a terrible certainty that Greek believes that it needs to spell out, in no uncertain terms, a cautionary tale about how the «glamorous life» ain't so glamorous and «ordinary life» as lived by us mere mortals is far better.

But for folks here in this quirky swath of tech - start - ups, shopping malls and renovated artist studios, the citywide plan has proven to be less of a solution and more of cautionary tale, a lesson in how hard it can be to take a community schools dream and turn it into a workable reality, even when almost everyone likes the idea.

A sometimes cautionary, often humorous, and always sad tale involving a friend, sibling, or father who brought home a brand - new Fiat decades ago only to be subjected to years of breakdowns, engine fires, and other mishaps until the car finally put the owner and itself out of their mutual misery by rusting into the ground.

In this feverish cautionary tale, Erdrich enters the realm of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1985), Emily Schultz's The Blondes (2015), Edan Lepucki's California (2014), Laura van den Berg's Find Me (2015), and Claire Vaye Watkins» Gold, Fame, Citrus (2015), infusing her masterful, full - tilt dystopian novel with stinging insights into the endless repercussions of the Native American genocide, hijacked spirituality, and the ongoing war against women's rigtale, Erdrich enters the realm of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1985), Emily Schultz's The Blondes (2015), Edan Lepucki's California (2014), Laura van den Berg's Find Me (2015), and Claire Vaye Watkins» Gold, Fame, Citrus (2015), infusing her masterful, full - tilt dystopian novel with stinging insights into the endless repercussions of the Native American genocide, hijacked spirituality, and the ongoing war against women's rigTale (1985), Emily Schultz's The Blondes (2015), Edan Lepucki's California (2014), Laura van den Berg's Find Me (2015), and Claire Vaye Watkins» Gold, Fame, Citrus (2015), infusing her masterful, full - tilt dystopian novel with stinging insights into the endless repercussions of the Native American genocide, hijacked spirituality, and the ongoing war against women's rights.

Cranking Thomas Dolby's cautionary tale, «She Blinded Me with Science,» in the background, I ventured into the prospectus, hoping to discover what sort of science I might be privy to.

Watterson drew a relatable, cautionary tale about the dangers of cramming boys into neat little boxes.

I think the film is suddenly a really important cautionary tale to activists to think carefully about tactics, and also a cautionary tale to law enforcement to think about their response to activism, because some responses bring people into the democratic argument and some responses radicalize people.

«This is a cautionary tale,» says Michael Mann, who uses tree rings to gain insights into past climates at Pennsylvania State University's Earth System Science Center, most famously to create the «hockey stick» graph showing an increase in temperature.

In the cautionary tale, massive amounts of steroid - rich chicken waste has been dumped into the water, causing the leech - like isopods to have mutated and move on from a taste for fish tongues to a taste for... human flesh.

Regulation In what is turning into a real cautionary tale for the cryptocurrency community about the need to be wary of celebrity's power, along with skepticism about most initial coin offerings (ICOs), the US...

In what is turning into a real cautionary tale for the cryptocurrency community about the need to be wary of celebrity's power, along with skepticism about most initial coin offerings (ICOs), the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced an ICO endorsed by champion boxer Floyd Mayweather has officially been deemed a fraud.

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.