Sentences with phrase «many sad tales»

In fact, Gates is so enthusiastic about this sad tale that he calls Kalanithi's memoir «an amazing book.

«It's a sad tale that former friends are seeking to take the company from its founder and 50 percent owner and put it on the block.

Or, surely, you have the seen the sad tales on television about older workers who are suddenly «let go».

In sad tales, the author is a kind of despot - sadist who leaves us yearning for something more meaningful.

Is this a sad tale?

In a passage telling the sad tale, not of the death of kings, but of the end of Shakespeare's career as a writer of English history plays, Greer points to this new dynamic as the cause:

I want her to know...» If you want a nonfiction account of what happens when fathers encourage daughters to get «in touch» with their sexuality because «it is not so big a deal,» read Hustled: My Journey From Fear to Faith (Westminster / John Knox), Tonya Flynt «Vega's sad tale of what it was like growing up as Larry Flynt's daughter.

This past weekend was quite a whirlwind of disappointment for Reds and Bengals fans, but I do like how this Honey Mustard Salmon matches the pictures of the sad tale below.

Anecdotes might help, like the sad tale of Tennessee almost scoring a touchdown on offense.

On Saturday 4th November, another chapter was added to the sad tale about Luch Energiya.

Even in Katie Prown's own state, the data tell the same sad tale over and over again.

May 12, 2003 — It's a sad tale: families who can't afford cribs with firm mattresses may be putting their newborns at risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

A sad tale of missed opportunities and unforced errors despite having waited since 1992 -LRB-!)

This sad tale is told by Giles Udy in Labour and the Gulag Russia and the Seduction of the British Left (Biteback).

The sad tale of the Lobbying Bill shows us how.

It's a sad tale of IT that didn't work, dreadful customer service and ineffectiveness — the agency failed to realise its purpose of getting errant fathers to cough up.

It all amounts to a sad tale of friendships and long associations disintegrating in the face of a criminal investigation.

The indictment can also be read as one of those unfailingly sad tales of a father who can not stop indulging a grown son.

That sad tale fits with previous observations of dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way and having their matter stripped away.

It's a sweet, sad tale of a crashed pilot meeting a young boy (the title character) who claims to be from a tiny asteroid called B - 612.

«Tis a sad tale.

Over in dresses it's mostly a sad tale about Anthro cutting corners in production by not making fit - and - flares.

This isn't primarily an adventure story, though it's very suspenseful; it's first and foremost a profoundly sad tale of human frailty.

It's almost as if Sturges set out to tell a sad tale with due solemnity (of a man who never received the recognition he deserved), managed to get so far into it and then couldn't resist throwing in some gags.

It's in these sequences that Burton allows his characters to tell one or two stories verbally without visual aids or flashbacks, and they're the saddest tales of all.

Years after The Squid and the Whale, a terrifically sad tale of divorce and family break - ups, Noah Baumbach was still searching for that right mix of tragedy and the wry laughter that comes out of it in short, sharp, painful bursts.

Blur is a cold, sad tale of one woman's descent into the abyss of emptiness, and carries the message that liberty doesn't have to be synonymous with complete isolation.

Starring Johnny Depp in his best performance in at least a decade, Black Mass tells the sad tale of how the FBI enabled a small - time criminal's rise to become a mafia kingpin.

L.M. Kit Carson shares the diary he kept during the five years he and Jim McBride struggled to remake Godard's Breathless; Stephen Farber chronicles sad tales of unreleased movies; and David Ehrenstein defines The Aesthetics of Failure, from Cleopatra to Heaven's Gate and beyond.

Director Tim Burton ditches the remake game for an original piece, and the result is a delicious funny / sad tale with top - notch performances.

To complete the sad tale of Nicky, on the end of the year charts, it would place a miserable 61st, a number that placed it two spaces behind the reissue of The Exorcist.

Pepe's sad tale is a modern parable of how awful the Internet can be.

And sure, that's a pretty great takeaway, but it ignores what a smart, sad tale of attraction, ambition and disappointment the whole film is, with a bristling romantic connection between Pfeiffer's lounge singer and Jeff Bridges» charismatic manchild pianist.

In many ways, it is a sad tale.

Resolution A-4 (Operating Budget: $ 500,000 Contracts with AstroPhysics, Autoclear, and Ceia — Weapons Screening Equipment and Supplies) tells a sad tale of what has become normal in so many of our schools.

Racing stars — Edward Eves traces the whereabouts of the famous 18/100 Mercedes of the pre Great War period / My years with — Bill Boddy's memories of the celebrated motoring journalist Denis Jenkinson / English Viper — Brian Heath evaluates the»30s Wolseley Viper and tells the sad tale of its untimely demise / European Express — Phil Llewellin visits a stately Bentley R - Type Continental and puts it through its (surprisingly nimble) paces / Swiss Excellence — Elizabeth Bennett reports on the Veteran Tour du Lac Leman / Leading from the front — Part 2 of Malcolm Bobbbit's history of Citroen's legendary Traction Avant / Unorthodox Evolution North Lucas — two men and a brilliant idea that didn't quite work out.

A sometimes cautionary, often humorous, and always sad tale involving a friend, sibling, or father who brought home a brand - new Fiat decades ago only to be subjected to years of breakdowns, engine fires, and other mishaps until the car finally put the owner and itself out of their mutual misery by rusting into the ground.

The sad tale of Ron Williamson & Dennis Fritz Ada, Oklahoma local boy Ron Williamson achieved hero status when drafted by baseball's Oakland Athletics in 1971, but within a couple of seasons his baseball dreams had been dashed and he took to drowning his sorrows in alcohol.

It is overall a very sad tale.

And bit by bit, she learns the sad tale of her Mum and Dad, who were too young when she came along and not ready for her.

Web browsing is a similarly sad tale draining the battery almost as quickly as video playback and notably grinding to a stuttering halt when navigating complex web pages.

Enriched by flashbacks to the alluringly sad tale of Anyusha's mother, a famous Russian refusenik who died for her beliefs, The Wanting is a poignant study of the costs of extremism, but it is most satisfying as a story of characters enmeshed in their imperfect love for one another and for the heartbreakingly complex world in which that love is wrought.

The sad tales of people losing their life's savings abound.

We have two graduates, one drop - out (a sad tale, and what made me start working from home to protect my family until we told him he had to leave), an eleventh grader, ninth grader, two sixth graders, and a second grader.

Over and over again passionate advocates of companion animal welfare rail against the «irresponsible» public; tell stories of people surrendering their animals for the most minor of reasons; fill their pages with sad tales of animals abandoned, ill - cared for, unclaimed or lost.

These dogs all come with a sad tale designed to garner sympathy.

Too many rescues tell sad tales - but are really perpetuating commercial and sometimes substandard breeding - note than many auction dogs are other than AKC registered.

Too often I hear sad tales of an existing pet developing FIP after the introduction of a cat or kitten from a high - risk source, such as a breeder or rescue shelter.

There are sad tales of death houses, or the places that immigrants with no families to care for them could go to die, with an all - inclusive package that include a funeral.

Garcia Marquez's «The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and her Heartless Grandmother,» a kind of salacious / feminist road story of a teenager whose grandmother prostitutes her all over Colombia to repay a supposed debt.