Sentences with phrase «long on anecdote»

What Ehrenreich had to say was long on anecdote and short on analysis.

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But under unrelenting pressure, we eventually agreed that we would help our customers with storytelling as long as the stories were not fabricated and the emphasis was on helping leaders to find and share their own real - life anecdotes.

NOW WE CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THE EXTENT OF DEMENTIA IN AMERICA Dale Benjamin Drakeford 8-31-12 When Clint Eastwood, a self - proclaimed «conservative» (who has lived more like a Joseph Smith liberal spurning nine children with four different women, sporting a clinch fisted personae in his private exenterates over public exhibitions) talks vulgar to an empty chair, Marco Rubio (a small government advocate who loss his roots somewhere between caffeine - free tea and a caffeine rich Cuban cigar) slips Freudian to advocate «large government» in a failed attempt to wax brilliant but came off bane (pun intended) to the capitalization of the nation, Paul Ryan can lie and demonize his role against the truth until his nose is a foot long and not one member of his audience will notice, and Mitt Romney can anecdote on his personal family, business and church goings on as oppose to his solutions for unemployment, banking corruption, housing displacement, militarism, planetary illness and international human rights unrest, we can clearly understand the extent of dementia in America.

The recipes, divided into sections based on ailment and target age group, are complemented by facts about herbs, how to grow them, and amusing anecdotes from the author's decades - long experience in herbalism.

Price also provided fascinating anecdotes from his clinical experience, wherein nutrient - dense foods corrected hypocalcemia - related seizures and chronic fatigue, made remarkable improvements in chidrens» performance at school, and wherein a surgical intervention to correct a narrowed palate induced puberty in a child long failing to develop through that stage of life, probably by releasing pressure on the pituitary gland.

Lucky Number Slevin's inevitable rug - pulling, however, is almost painfully transparent, unless you believe that professional assassins really do distract their targets via hecka - long, convoluted anecdotes that will surely have no bearing on subsequent events.

Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu has been telling an anecdote that he had lunch with Nichols not long before filming began on «Birdman.»

A long anecdote told by Warren, which mockingly recalls forcing Smithers» doomed, naked son to fellate him on a freezing Wyoming prairie (shown in an accompanying flashback), goads the slower Smithers to draw on him, but it feels as if Tarantino has exploited Confederate atrocities to serve his brand of reclamation by irony.

Then there's a short play called «Toe Pick» by Zachary Grady, a song to the tune of George Michael's «Faith» performed by vowel - averse comedy duo SRSLY, a long anecdote by former Harding impersonator Lynn Harris, and three people who call themselves I AM A BOYS CHOIR, who jump on trampolines wearing sequined skating dresses for an interminable aerobic performance.

Special Features include: an «Entertainment Tonight» segment in which Paul McCartney tells a spectacularly shallow anecdote about his Oscar - nominated title song; the clip - laced video for «Afrika Shox» by Leftfield / Afrika Bambaataa; eight still galleries introduced by Vanilla Sky's on - set photographer Neal Preston, who used to accompany Crowe on his ROLLING STONE assignments; Vanilla Sky's (unreleased) teaser and theatrical trailers, in 5.1; and a long listing of the Paramount DVD's production credits.

His autobiography is not long on the pursuit of personal visions, but it is packed with anecdotes of a lifetime filled with meaningful work.

Freundlich and Duchovny combine their soporific superpowers on a feature - length yakker long on ancillary anecdotes and eager to pay compliments, at wet length, to the stupende - awsome - riffic cast; Freundlich will also stop the stream to trainspot random people («Hey, wait, that's my trainer!»)

John Hyams's commentary track on the recent Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning Blu - ray includes an illuminating anecdote about professional martial artists and the long - term implications of movie fights.

Strong anecdotes from the trenches support the female - tailored techniques like changing the channel after a goof - up, using CYT (cover yourself tactics) to help avert office disasters, and the real take on crying (consider it a tic, and not a huge deal as long as you quickly compose yourself in the bathroom).

Trying to maintain a consistently high return on equity [ROE] over a long period of time is a fools bargain and I'll use an anecdote from a company I know well, AIG.

«There are many anecdotes of developers watching where artists go and using that to track what neighborhoods they can wring money out of,» says Brooklyn - based artist Jennifer Dalton, who recently helped lead a month - long art project titled «Month2Month,» which touched on issues of art, housing and inequity.

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.

This is purely hypothetical, based on an anecdote told on a web design lecture a long time ago.

The work experience section should be longest on your resume, as you can see from our pharmaceutical sales resume sample, so you have plenty of space to go into detailed anecdotes.

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