Sentences with phrase «little anecdotes»

Your little anecdotes throughout this post = made my life.

One of my favourite little anecdotes for example is air traffic control.

Lovely little anecdotes, but if an ATC system crashes on a busy day, people's lives are at risk whereas if a climate model crashes (due to a system or process error rather than a numerical error), it can be re-run — as long as the error doesn't cause different results to occur, ie.

Doris Greenspan's cookbooks are always a pleasure, with clear instructions, thoughtful variation ideas, and little anecdotes about recipe origin that

This year's ceremony remedies this shameful injustice by having friends and co-stars of the best actor nominees — and then actress nominees — share amusing little anecdotes about them for 16 minutes.

I hope to bring you the latest and greatest in all areas of fashion with sprinkles of Sammie and little anecdotes.

I love waiting for your posts just to read your cute little anecdotes (I hope they are all true!).

I've been wanting to write up little anecdotes and essays, and this is inspiring me to get up off my butt and do it!

This is important because the way people solve problems is first by having an enormous amount of commonsense knowledge, like maybe 50 million little anecdotes or entries, and then having some unknown system for finding among those 50 million old stories the 5 or 10 that seem most relevant to the situation.

TF: One of my boxes was filled with little anecdotes.

Moral stories for kids are entertaining, but don't take this amusing little anecdotes for granted.

I am too exhausted today to think of any other little anecdotes for you so I'm going to get straight to describing how to make these easy spicy kale chips!

People have warmed to him and they like the little anecdotes about him paying his own hotel bill and getting the bus with his brother cardinals.

This little anecdote explains why I took interest yesterday in a press release from John Cioffi, the electrical engineer who was instrumental in creating DSL Internet technology.

If any insist on their unsupported nonsense, he can tell them this little anecdote:

If anyone wishes to have it ignored, I will use it to tell a little anecdote, in order to show that it nevertheless does exist.

Now why would you even think to put that little anecdote in your story if you weren't so very proud of shocking some poor old guy watering his lawn with your birth performance?

(As a counter-example and a sign of how far things have gone, let me relate a little anecdote: when I was a kid I lived outside Washington DC.

Great little anecdote I love to share on this from way back — this guy was asking about this whole keto crap and how to breakfast, asked what he normally ate and he said two eggs on buttered toast, so just told him to have the same, sans toast (but use the butter!).

The amount of time, effort and love that she put into making the weekend of July 20th, 2013 the best weekend of my life was absolutely amazing, and I think this little anecdote represents just how special my mother is.

Leaving you guys with a little anecdote about this jacket... I had layered a long black coat over it and had fully buttoned up the front, not realizing that the tail end of the brown suede belt had poked out in between two buttons!

Before I start this post I'd like to share a little anecdote.

Uhh, totally enjoyed that little anecdote about Anthropologie!

I will tell you a little anecdote, long ago when I was a teenager I did not like my body especially my legs since I was very thin and my legs were like two wands.

This little anecdote taken from an interview with Steve's biographer Walter Isaacson shows another side to Steve's perfectionism which all authors will do well to emulate:

One little anecdote.

I'm sharing this little anecdote because it's a reminder that choosing an appropriate asset allocation is the most important investment decision you'll ever make.

To drop a little anecdote in to spice that point up a bit, I once did some training for a leading planning firm where one of the associates complained to me that they had lost out on a juicy piece of work because their corporate department «didn't know we did planning...».

Here is a little anecdote.

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Surely the Turcke household is subscribed to Bell's highest - tier TV package, with all manner of channels, shows and movies flowing like water, which kind of makes the anecdote sound a little fishy.

There's a famous anecdote about Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad's thrifty ways: apparently, he drove the same 1993 Volvo sedan for 20 years, finally giving it up not to buy something a little more flash with his billions, but simply because it was no longer road - worthy.

I hope that in his next book, Turner does a little more of this, for it transforms his funny, sometimes bizarre anecdotes into more relatable, human stories and makes the reader feel more like a participant and less like an observer.

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The early years of their married life are described with humour and charm, with some nice anecdotes — my personal favourite is of Valerie taking their little daughter regularly to post letters to Denis when he was working abroad, and small Venetia expressing concern: «Poor Dadda, he must be very uncomfortable in that pillar - box!».

Why did He use little stories and parables and anecdotes?

Stories and anecdotes about travelling the world and enjoying European cuisine, buying organic, joining a CSA, or picking out fine wine for guests may make you feel like true hospitality and joyful and just eating are little more than dreams other people get to fulfill.

Teams take mascots out onto the pitch with them, ensuring that (a) a few youngsters have excellent anecdotes with which to impress their peers, and (b) any animosity between the players has to be suspended until the little ones are out of the way.

He wasted little time before bustin» out some fabulously cringe anecdotes about failed transfers during his time at Anfield.

If you feel like you need a little help figuring out how or what to play, Cohen offers plenty of anecdotes, examples, and research in Playful Parenting.

«School children can enjoy abstractions, provided they be of the proper order; and it is a poor compliment to their rational appetite to think that anecdotes about little Tommies and little Jennies are the only kind of things their minds can digest.»

In the category of «little evidence, lots of anecdotes» is gripe water, a natural colic remedy made of herbs and sodium bicarbonate in drops.

Mother blessings provide your supporters an opportunity to bring actual blessings, support tools, favourite little gifts, anecdotes and stories foryou to take on your journey with you.

And another anecdote: I breastfed my first child around the clock when she was little, and didn't wean until she was over 2.

TN: You do manage to smuggle anecdotes from your career into the book, though in a very subtle way as brief little vignettes.

ALBANY — There's a little known anecdote about Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver that reveals a lot about why the state's second-most powerful Democrat is facing five federal corruption charges that could put him in prison for the rest of his life.

«This study of a single mass shooting and a single type of gun violence amounts to little more than a statistical anecdote,» wrote Gary Kleck, a criminologist at Florida State University in Tallahassee, to Science.

Aside from anecdotes, we know very little about nonhuman primate laughter and humor, but some of the most significant findings to emerge in comparative science over the past decade have involved the unexpected discovery that rats — particularly juvenile rats — laugh.

In fact, science confirms the anecdotes of many soy consumers — that eating a little soy produces minimal gas, but eating just a bit more can result in discomfort or embarrassment.

They allow for more personal stories as outfit posts can sometimes be a little dull sometimes unless there's a good anecdote for the outfit.

However, surveying over 2400 EliteSingles members we discovered that the secrets people keep in relationships can also be a charming collection of relatable anecdotes, and that perhaps the little secrets we keep are actually a personal way of loving your partner.