Sentences with phrase «known cautionary tale»

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.

Thanks to Mackay's vivid account, tulips are a well - known cautionary tale, applied to asset bubbles of all types; here's the problem, though: there's a decent chance Mackay's account is completely wrong.

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For would - be Amazon partners, this is just the latest cautionary tale about the risks of doing business with the online retail giant: No matter what the company says, there are no equal partnerships when Amazon is involved.

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.

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.

With cautionary tales of fake dating profiles swirling around, it's important that a woman knows that you are who your profile says you are by creating an engaging online dating profile.

Freeway glints here and there with dark humor amounting to a knowing wink that undercuts the cautionary tale at its heart and the seriousness of its graphic sociology.

While highlighting the mostly good in humankind, his San Andreas is also a cautionary tale that shows no matter how fabulous the means of communication and technology we have at our disposal to try and control our everyday lives and surroundings, it's all basically pointless when Mother Nature is out to flex her muscles.

A cautionary tale about parenting, the movie introduces a filmmaker who grounds fantasy in an unnerving level of naturalism, who can draw deeply human performances, and who knows what scares you.

A cartoonist, novelist and screenwriter, Alex Garland, who's most commonly known for writing films such as The Beach, 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Never Let Me Go, and Dredd, has now made his directorial debut with Ex Machina, a sci - fi cautionary tale that challenges viewers with a variety of existential questions in regards to artificial intelligence.

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.

No, a cautionary tale: Everyone knows we must erase the uniform salary schedule.

It is a cautionary tale in that what we think we know - from the media or «friends» - about a famous person is often inaccurate.

I get the feeling that B&N will be the cautionary tale for what happens to your digital goods when the company you bought them from no longer exists.

Market timing may sound like a good idea, but as a cautionary tale I know a guy who did that about 1 year ago with his 401k and is kicking himself today because it was never the «right time» to buy back in.

Overall though, treat this as a cautionary tale — transfer your points early if you know what you want.

It was a cautionary tale more than a celebration of fell powers, and the details present in side quests and offhand remarks made it clear that the developers of Shadow of Mordor knew exactly where the game was celebrating Tolkien's mythos and where it was turning that mythos on its head.

One of his most well known publications, Three Moderately Cautionary Tales is a series of 50 small etchings depicting small objects, places or...

She is also known for her intricate garment sculptures, and her acclaimed wedding dress «A Mixture of Frailties» made from hundreds of rubber gloves — a kind of cautionary tale about domestic reality — will be on display at this debut solo show.

A recent Court of Appeal decision serves as a cautionary tale for local planning authorities — and will no doubt result in landowners dusting down their historic permissions...

My Big Coin might be the latest cautionary tale in the vast sea of coin scams, but it and the others we know now are just the tip of the iceberg.