Sentences with phrase «less a story of»

Would this article be published if TSLAs market cap was 1billion instead of ~ 50 billion.Of course not.TSLA is much less a story of innovation and technology and much more one of a stock where rampant speculation resulting from Central bank liquidity has pushed its stock to levels completely unrelated to its prospects as a company.Its silly stock market valuation allows it raise cash to keep the charade going much longer than the economics of its business would ever suggest.

We are informed at the beginning that the signal was never decoded, and so the novel is less a story of scientific triumph than a series of ruminations on hermeneutics, the hubris of scientists, and the sociology of academic cohorts.

Less a story of romantic love than love of country, this excellent drama based on history shows the noblest side of patriotism.

Less a story of how Wonder Woman began, and more a tale of living life on your own terms, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is sensual and smart, a stunning film with incredible and totally badass women both in front of and behind the camera.

Not exact matches

It's a story of a less wasteful and more humane health care industry, more attuned to the experiences of real people and better able to learn from those experiences, faster.

The book chronicles the story of Dr. Claude Shannon, a modest, quirky mathematician and engineer who was one of the founders of the information revolution, and arguably one of the lesser - known geniuses of the 20th century.

Less familiar is the story of exactly how Shawn evolved from a hotheaded crack dealer (he once shot his brother in the shoulder) into one of the most successful multi-platform businessmen in the world.

«Sharknado had 13 times more tweets - per - viewer than one of the most tweeted - about shows on TV,» the story said, but it got less than a fifth of the viewers.

«Since the publication of this story, we've observed and heard from worried activists, journalists and ordinary people who use WhatsApp, who tell us that people are switching to SMS and Facebook Messenger, among other options - many services that are strictly less secure than WhatsApp.»

Fill up your feed with motivational quotes, inspiring stories and exciting videos by following some of the latest and greatest in the industry — as well as some lesser - known names.

Unlike media darlings, who tend to interpret the future through an unwavering set of beliefs and to reduce complex issues to a simple, dramatic story, the more accurate forecasters tend to be less confident that they know how things will turn out.

Universal had heard all the stories of Hopper's erratic behavior over the years, first as an up - and - coming actor who had small parts in the James Dean movies «Rebel Without a Cause» and «Giant» (he admired Dean immensely), then as a bit player on a slew of TV shows, where he got little respect and gave even less back.

According to research conducted at the University of Toronto, study participants who read short - story fiction experienced far less need for «cognitive closure» compared with counterparts who read nonfiction essays.

In the wake of success stories such as Coolest Cooler, which raised more than $ 13 million on Kickstarter, I'm starting to hear talk that crowdfunding is making traditional financing less relevant.

The State Department and a number of Washington think - tanks have long indicated that the real story about Keystone XL is a lot less exciting than most of its supporters and opponents seem to believe.

This new method of spreading awareness is a smart strategy for reaching the younger generation, who — while highly socially conscious — are less likely to take the initiative to investigate the full story themselves via traditional news outlets.

According to a story in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, his reasoning goes like this: «Call me opportunistic; I thought I could get better people with less competition because we were willing to understand the skills and capabilities that many of these women had.»

The story of veterans like Charlie # 1 is less well known.

Editor's note: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that the average tenure of a corporate chief marketing officer is less than two years, according to executive search firm Spencer Stuart.

You've heard the story before — the one about the entrepreneur who stays up all night, sleeps less than four hours, then gets up at the crack of dawn to crush another 80 - hour workweek.

Nonetheless, stories from RT are likely to become less visible to Americans in light of Google's recent decision to «de-rank» them in its search engine — a move that drew the ire of Russia.

Obviously, comic book villains are the stuff of fiction — investors make for much less interesting stories.

If the screenshot is accurate, then Fusion had less than 700 people on its website reading any of its stories, and the top story — about the dark side of amateur pornography — had just 32 people reading.

According to a leaked screenshot of Fusion's web traffic that was posted by Gawker, the site had less than 35 readers looking at its top story on a recent day.

Stories involved different parts of our brain, so they're easier to remember and less threatening than cold, hard facts.

But treating cancer becomes less mysterious every day, and today Ignyta is writing a new story, identifying the genomic causes of cancer and creating targeted cancer drugs that attack cancer at its source.

But it is a different story if we use the low income measure, which looks at the gap between poor children and the middle class, calculating the number of children who live in a family which has less than one half of the income of a comparable middle income family.

The way the story goes is that an extended period of calm with steady growth and no recessions, nothing to make you nervous, makes investors less risk - averse, so more risk taking, and not just investors, but their financial intermediaries.

Yet as the story progresses, she proceeds to do a number of terrible things in her conviction about the righteousness of her cause, in a way that makes her less sympathetic.

If the results are littered with people telling horror stories of losing their life savings or finishing the programs less knowledgeable than when they started... BEWARE!

It's full of practical ideas, stories and insights that will have you feel a little less alone and more capable of doing the work you feel so called to you.

Each interview gives color on the personal stories behind the ideas, which helps make the process of engaging in social good less intimidating and more attainable.

Less than two months after The Wall Street Journal broke the story of alleged sexual misconduct against Steve Wynn, he's quit his jobs as CEO and chairman of the board of directors and sold all 12.1 million shares he held in the company he founded.

Here's the gist of this story in 100 words or less.

So it's not surprising that our top five financial stories were less about issue - oriented hard news and more advice - driven, positive stories on how advisors can take advantage of the bull market.

With easy growth behind us and waves of uncertainty coming from all sides, investors and businesses seem less assured than before about the prospects of the Canadian growth story.

«Imagine if [the Daniels affair] came out on October 15, 2016, in the middle of the last debate with Hillary Clinton,» he said, apparently under the impression that linking the story to its potential electoral consequences would make the money seem less connected to the election.

(For instance I'm fairly confident that promiscuity is sinful, especially when it comes from a place of lust, but I'm less convinced that my committed same - sex friends are sinning by expressing their love physically any more than I am sinning when my wife and I express our love physically — even though I think we can be if we are acting out of lust or as a means of asserting power over one another, but that is another story).

Talking snakes, talking donkeys, a boat at sea for half a year with a couple million animals, a temple less than 5000sq feet taking 150,000 workers and 7 years to complete, and then sacrificing 14 animals a minute for 7 days straight, a virgin birth story (like there weren't already a few of them before), a zombie invasion that no third party seemed to witness, a dude living in the belly of a fish for a couple days, a guys last words (before become back as a zombie) being «My god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me.»

Think of what we learn from the stories of Flannery O'Connor, a lesser writer than Twain, certainly, but one who knew something very important about the world he didn't.

Two, the parables of Adam and Eve are for less evolved humans, they're like children's bedtime stories with object lessons.

Also Stephen, you disregard the surveys that consistently say that over 45 % of Americans believe the earth is less than 10k years old and the bible is 100 % literal and accurate including the story of a talking snake and Noah's Ark..

Ten years later, the need for discernment seems no less great, for in every generation the story of Peoples Temple seems to be repeated in some way, leaving in its wake a grieving and confused community of families, friends and loved ones.

Later, in the story of cain and Bale, we see te issue of good and eveil acted out in a more realistic, less mythic framework.

Whereas Blankets is a vulnerable coming - of - age and into - doubt story, Habibi» while still a bildungsroman» delves further into the muck of adulthood and back into religion, this time with less hesitation.

You couldn't trust the accuracy or the authenticity of a story written down a month after the supposed happening, much less something written down the staggering 60 years, 100 years, 200 years after all the «jesus said» and «jesus did» parts of the bible supposedly happened.

No evidence of Adam and Eve or hell or heaven or god or satan... just stories meant to fool the weak of heart and gullible... stories to make you feel like you're less of a person than you are.

And so the tale of a Green Knight with his chopped - off head still holding a knight of the Round Table to promises made is no less true than the tale of a man crammed with secrets who spontaneously combusts and leaves behind only a black, tallowy mark on the floorboards, and his story in turn is no less true than the tale of a Texas sharecropper's wife who has had a miscarriage only ten days before but just this morning was walking behind the mule and guiding the jerking plow.

The following stories are, for those who «read the signs of the times», indicators that the witness of the Church, less and less welcome in the secular culture that surrounds us, has never been more important or necessary.

Apparently, they're hoping the next installment of Transformers will be a little less dependent on big budget special effects and have more story and characterization.