Sentences with phrase «just tall tales»

So I think it is fair to say that persecution was not just tall tales and Martyrdom is not the only way to experience persecution.

If Prairie's story about being an angel was all just a tall tale, what during her seven - year disappearance cured her blindness?

And to believe that index fund managers are at the mercy of hedge funds or alleged front runners, well that's just a tall tale.

Not exact matches

If parents want to teach their kids a bunch of silly nonsense and tall tales calling them «facts», then that's just a product of their confounding beliefs and I don't think Bill Nye is going to change their mind.

You just keep telling yourself that, and maybe your tall tale will come true.

But I'm not just telling you tall tales over here, gloating about this great new cookbook that I have and you don't.

Except... when we're so exhausted that we can't possibly remember what it is we wanted to do the next time our child climbed on the counter, pulled the dog's tail, told a tall tale, or just wouldn't go to sleep!

For those of you who love a tall tale, the list of genetic variations that determine human height has just experienced a growth spurt.

That's not just Zelnick telling tall tales, either.

But for one listener, those tall tales are just too much.

The greatest comedy is reaction, and watching Arkin try to swallow these tall tales and still remain respectful to his dinner guests is just one of the marvels that make Arkin the consummate professional.

So far this school year her students have had to write three essays, a research paper, a tall tale and a poem, she said, just like they always have.

It's not just the recommendations you make, your dreamy, musty, ink - stained pages or your tall, smartly wrought tales, it's also how you understand and rally behind the independent spirit.

The tale of Grandpa's thirteenth birthday had grown over the years just like the land he could move and stretch, and Momma just shook her head and smiled every time he'd start talking tall.

This reviewer didn't find this to be the case as Preston's tale of how he, and then his family, started to climb tall trees serves as a bridge in the reader's mind - from reading about the wild exploits of a self - chosen few, to contemplating that climbing a tall tree could be an achievable ambition if one was so inclined (which this reviewer, who is getting sweaty feet just thinking about it, is not!)

But come to think of it, that must» a been his name, because even though I think he was part of a tall tale, he was just a child and a child don't know how to lie about his name.»

If you've been following the Cybils nominations, or if you just happen to like good picture books, you may have already encountered his work in Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale (Introducing His Forgotten Frontier Friend) by Deborah Hopkinson (Schwartz & Wade Books, September 2008), which has made it into the list of finalists for the Fiction Picture Books category this year.

Photos and tall tales just won't suffice» Southeast Asia's top 10 private villas, CNN Go, Published 17 September, 2012

Solo Exhibitions 2018 «Material Longevities», Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon (upcoming) 2018 «Tris Vonna - Michell», Local Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago 2017 «From The Serralves Collection: Tris Vonna - Michell», Museu Serralves, Porto 2017 «PUNCTUATIONS & PERFORATIONS», La Verrière, Brussels 2016 «Register», T293, Rome 2015 «Wasteful Illuminations: Distracted Listening», Jan Mot, Brussels 2015 «Capitol Complex», Appleton Square, Lisbon 2015 «Tris Vonna - Michell», Overduin & Co., Los Angeles 2015 «Tris Vonna - Michell», Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver 2014 «Turner Prize 2014», Tate Britain, London 2014 «Postscript III (Berlin)», Metro Pictures, New York 2014 «Capitol Complex», TPW, Toronto 2014 «Tris Vonna - Michell», VOX Centre de l'image contemporaine, Montreal 2013 «Postscript II (Berlin)», Jan Mot, Brussels 2013 «Pebble Dash», T293, Rome 2013 «Capitol Complex», Jan Mot, Mexico City 2012 «Ulterior Vistas», BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (in collaboration with Inheritance Projects) 2011 «Tris Vonna - Michell», Metro Pictures, New York 2010 «Wasteful Illuminations», T293, Naples 2010 «Not a Solitary Sign or Inscription to Even Suggest an Ending», Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles 2010 «Tris Vonna - Michell», Capitain Petzel, Berlin 2010 «No more racing in circles — just pacing within lines of a rectangle», Focal Point Gallery, Southend - on - Sea 2009 «Capstans», Halle fur Kunst, Lüneburg 2009 «Finding Chopin: Endnotes», Jeu de Paume, Paris 2009 «Tris Vonna - Michell», Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm 2009 «Auto - Tracking: Ongoing Configurations», Jan Mot, Brussels 2009 «Tris Vonna - Michell», X Initiative, New York 2009 «Auto - Tracking - Auto - Tracking», Kunsthalle Zurich 2009 «Studio A: Monumental Detours / Insignificant Fixtures», GAMeC, Bergamo 2008 «Tris Vonna - Michell», Cabinet Gallery, London 2008 «Auto - Tracking», Kunsthalle Zurich 2008 «The Trades of Others», T293, Naples 2007 «Tall Tales and Short Stories», Cubitt, London 2007 «Puzzlers», Kunstverein Braunschweig Cuboid, Braunschweig 2007 «Tris Vonna - Michell», Witte de With, Rotterdam 2006 «Faire un effort», Palais des Beaux - Arts, Brussels 2006 «Down the Rabbit - Hole», Milliken Gallery, Stockholm

Mostre Personali 2018 «Material Longevities», Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbona (in programma) 2018 «Tris Vonna - Michell», Local Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago 2017 «From The Serralves Collection: Tris Vonna - Michell, Museu Serralves, Porto 2017 «PUNCTUATIONS & PERFORATIONS», La Verrière, Bruxelles 2016 «Register», T293, Roma 2015 «Wasteful Illuminations: Distracted Listening», Jan Mot, Bruxelles 2015 «Capitol Complex», Appleton Square, Lisbona 2015 «Tris Vonna - Michell», Overduin & Co., Los Angeles 2015 «Tris Vonna - Michell», Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver 2014 «Turner Prize 2014», Tate Britain, Londra 2014 «Postscript III (Berlin)», Metro Pictures, New York 2014 «Capitol Complex», TPW, Toronto 2014 «Tris Vonna - Michell», VOX Centre de l'image contemporaine, Montreal 2013 «Postscript II (Berlin)», Jan Mot, Bruxelles 2013 «Pebble Dash», T293, Roma 2013 «Capitol Complex», Jan Mot, Città del Messico 2012 «Ulterior Vistas», BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (in collaborazione con Inheritance Projects) 2011 «Tris Vonna - Michell», Metro Pictures, New York 2010 «Wasteful Illuminations», T293, Napoli 2010 «Not a Solitary Sign or Inscription to Even Suggest an Ending», Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles 2010 «Tris Vonna - Michell», Capitain Petzel, Berlino 2010 «No more racing in circles — just pacing within lines of a rectangle», Focal Point Gallery, Southend - on - Sea 2009 «Capstans», Halle fur Kunst, Lüneburg 2009 «Finding Chopin: Endnotes», Jeu de Paume, Parigi 2009 «Tris Vonna - Michell», Tensta Konsthall, Stoccolma 2009 «Auto - Tracking: Ongoing Configurations», Jan Mot, Bruxelles 2009 «Tris Vonna - Michell», X Initiative, New York 2009 «Auto - Tracking - Auto - Tracking», Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurigo 2009 «Studio A: Monumental Detours / Insignificant Fixtures», GAMeC, Bergamo 2008 «Tris Vonna - Michell», Cabinet Gallery, Londra 2008 «Auto - Tracking», Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurigo 2008 «The Trades of Others», T293, Napoli 2007 «Tall Tales and Short Stories», Cubitt, Londra 2007 «Puzzlers», Kunstverein Braunschweig Cuboid, Braunschweig 2007 «Tris Vonna - Michell», Witte de With, Rotterdam 2006 «Faire un effort», Palais des Beaux - Arts, Bruxelles 2006 «Down the Rabbit - Hole», Milliken Gallery, Stoccolma

Added to which, just because the question is expressed in public by non-scientists doesn't mean that it is unrelated to the scientific exploration of uncertainty issues going on here and elsewhere (e.g. the «tall tales and fat tails» plus the «lopping off the fat tails» posts).

Mitch Kowalski, who joined the Slaw team this year, just released a book this year which tells this tall tale.