Sentences with phrase «like cautionary tales»

I like cautionary tales.

The history of baseball isn't just decades of Tony Batista - like cautionary tales.

But the simplicity of the formula makes the film read like a cautionary tale that a traveling troupe of actors would perform for medieval villagers.

War Dogs feels like a cautionary tale about excess instead of an exposé of how the worship of money may finally be the thing that brings down all of it.

It seems like a cautionary tale for anyone who dreams of being an action hero though.

Various members of the art world followed all of this testimony intently, including a documentary filmmaker who always took the same seat in the front row; a reporter from the Art Newspaper who usually had her highly entertained boyfriend with her; a lawyer working on a screenplay about the Knoedler saga; numerous dealers and appraisers who all came and took notes, treating the trial like a cautionary tale; and one very pregnant art adviser who told me that she canceled a sonogram so she wouldn't miss anything.

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There's also a cautionary tale in the form of Munchery, a California startup that, like Maple, also runs the «full stack,» but has reportedly suffered from food waste and other issues despite raising more than three times the amount in Maple's coffers.

Econo - metrics: The July trade report also serves as a cautionary tale of what life could be like without NAFTA, as exports to the U.S. and Mexico suffered significantly

I feel like Coples is the cautionary tale here because I still firmly believe he can be a good player, either as a 4 - 3 left defensive end or a 3 - 4 five technique.

Having received the parachute payments and sizeable transfer fees for players like Charlie Adam, replaced by cheaper alternatives, the Seasiders» slide since Ian Holloway's departure is a cautionary tale.

Dupre also revealed she's just «living like a normal girl», but is thinking of writing a book that would be a «cautionary tale» to help other kids avoid making the same mistakes that she did.

Image of seven - armed octopus courtesy of video by oceancontent Today we're returning to the deep to meet an octopus that, at first glance, hardly seems to earn that eight - limbed designation.Its very name sounds like an oxymoron — or a cautionary tale from a fishing accident.

Although the Eloi - Morlock relationship was clearly meant to serve as a cautionary tale of the horrors of class distinction, Wells imagined a biological phenomenon remarkably similar to what scientists like Pfennig and his colleagues are working on today.

Gibson's cautionary tale points to the alarming rise in diseases like diabetes, asthma, and Alzheimer's, warning that more than half of us will die from our genetic vulnerabilities if we stay the course in our do - nothing, eat - a-lot lives.

Like most of us, I always just chalked it up the Wicked Witch's malevolence, but nowadays I wonder if that scene isn't a cautionary tale to always pay attention to your surroundings.

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

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.

Like many tales about the good vs. the evil, the evil mostly steals the show from the good in «The Devil and Daniel Webster» (1941), a cautionary moral tale based on Stephen Vincent Benét's short story which is sort of a New England version of the tale of Faust.

It starts with a traveler (Letitia Wright, of the upcoming Black Panther movie) visiting a distant roadside attraction called the Black Museum — which, like Black Mirror itself, is devoted to high - tech cautionary tales.

That it simultaneously spawned a genre of crap in a devolution chart from its already low bar to the bonding - over-cannibalism flick Fried Green Tomatoes to the bonding - over-coprophagia flick The Help functions as a cautionary tale about what happens when you, Titanic - like, find a new field to strip - mine.

So, is this movie a cautionary tale, or does it merely stir the curiosity like the fascination of waiting for an inevitable train wreck?

While no information was divulged on the budget size for this rom sci - fi (which sounds like a nerdy cautionary tale for the tinder age a la I Origins), we're fairly certain that if Doremus has had time to insert any sci - fi special effects, it could land an acquisitions friendly slot.

And since the film is told from David's point of view, there are also similarities to «rise and fall» / «cautionary tale» Scorsese films like Goodfellas and The Wolf of Wall Street in particular.

Jennifer Lawrence in a serious movie is starting to feel like an automatic nomination (she's getting that Meryl Streep nomination thing going), but will enough Academy fogies sit through one of Aronofsky's dark and dirty cautionary tales to make the film itself a player?

Glacial, but unexpectedly funny in spots, the latest from the reigning king of «style for style's sake» is a cautionary tale about beauty and the fashion industry in which everyone looks like a vampire and every scene sounds like it was recorded in a mausoleum.

Over the years, many comedic ensembles have assembled for cross-country racing movies like It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Cannonball Run, Speed Zone, Rat Race, etc. — grim, cautionary tales that disquieted audiences with their graphic portrayal of traffic accidents, and drivers who have a reckless disregard for...

In retrospect, all seem to understand that Never Say Never Again is perhaps best regarded as a cautionary tale: When a movie like this is produced as a simple prerogative of copyright, no one's going to feel terribly passionate about it.

This cautionary tale by Terry Gilliam, one of the great films of the 1980s, has come to be esteemed alongside antitotalitarian works by the likes of George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr..

Although «Okja» features a large international cast headed by Tilda Swinton (much like Bong's recent «Snowpiercer»), its disarming blend of corporate satire, environmental cautionary tale and girl - centric creature feature suggests a throwback of sorts to the director's 2006 smash hit, «The Host.»

Much like The Big Short, there are spurts of comedy throughout, but the heart of the film is dramatic and tells a cautionary tale.

Like Brice's debut film, the two - man found - footage horror show Creep, The Overnight is a cautionary tale of stranger danger.

Once it becomes another tired cautionary tale of sex, drugs, and rock n» roll, however, Rock Star turns off the amps and coasts home like a rusted - out DeSoto running on fumes.

But in plenty of other respects, this humorless science - fiction cautionary tale feels like a relic from an earlier era, pulled out of a dusty old box of zip disks and 56k modems.

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.

Although Knee is a business - school professor and former investment banker, his book reads less like a coherent analysis of the prospects of education businesses and more like a few standalone cautionary tales.

The Grimbles» Last Game - a sketch for teenage drama students Great to explore ensemble cast work with a number of speaking roles Mask work and «games» are included Physical theatre Challenging and creative A dark, surreal and comic tale For the PERILOUS TALES collection of surreal and slightly dark cautionary tales by Offbeat Theatre's Barbara Hockley An excellent opportunity to use bizarre costumes and masks A dance number is required at the end - anything you like... Dark, surreal and completely off the wall Ed and Molly Grimble play computer games all the time - in fact, they do little TALES collection of surreal and slightly dark cautionary tales by Offbeat Theatre's Barbara Hockley An excellent opportunity to use bizarre costumes and masks A dance number is required at the end - anything you like... Dark, surreal and completely off the wall Ed and Molly Grimble play computer games all the time - in fact, they do little tales by Offbeat Theatre's Barbara Hockley An excellent opportunity to use bizarre costumes and masks A dance number is required at the end - anything you like... Dark, surreal and completely off the wall Ed and Molly Grimble play computer games all the time - in fact, they do little else.

And though a Newark story, «The Prize» is just as much a cautionary tale for places like North Carolina, where decision - makers are dismantling public education in a seemingly short - sighted fashion.

It provides cautionary tales about the importance of getting programmes like mentoring right and positive suggestions on which strategies do most to boost attainment.»

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.

Although it was reprinted in adoption magazines, Salon sent me a few very nasty letters, one saying that someone like me should never be allowed to adopt, and another saying my piece was a cautionary tale.

My dad likes to tell this story at cocktail parties, as a cautionary tale to young people.

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.

However, if Smart proves correct and this proves to result in an FTC case like The Doom that Came To Atlantic City, it could be a staggering cautionary tale — one that effectively cripples Kickstarter as an effective way for smaller companies to get their games off the ground.

Chen pointed out to me the dangers of having a developer be judge, jury and executioner in an eSports setting, pointing to issues like Riot Games» ban of two competitive teams as a cautionary tale.

EM: Instead of keeping the project a fairly guarded secret like many larger developers, you share a great deal of information regarding your progress and personal journey through Twitter; as you've progressed through development, how have your views on engaging through social media and putting out content / sneak peaks in this way changed, and as content will undoubtedly change by the time you reach the point of release, do you have any cautionary tales to share?

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.

Lydia Page shares a nice cautionary tale: she did fine with her money and budgets but didn't take advantage of things like opt - in protections from her bank and the added security that credit cards have over debit cards, and her bank accounts were drained.

Creator Jérôme Blanquet isn't making a cautionary tale so much as a fever dream, exploring what it might look like if present - day AIs» mass data mining got very, very personal.

It starts with a traveler (Letitia Wright, of the upcoming Black Panther movie) visiting a distant roadside attraction called the Black Museum — which, like Black Mirror itself, is devoted to high - tech cautionary tales.