Sentences with phrase «many tales told»

This fairy tale told through the comedic skill of director Rob Reiner has become a classic love story.

In many ways, the publicity about the «tell - all» book — not to mention last summer's scandal in which former HubSpot executives allegedly attempted to obtain a predraft copy — has usurped the tale told in the book itself, of Lyons» career reinvention.

They do not in fact bury their heads in the sand as the old wives» tale tells it, but the fact that most of us believe that myth to be true only makes a stronger point: if the move you choose is to burrow in deeper to protect the current nest on which you rest, the odds are high that you're leaving yourself a sitting duck (or ostrich, as it were).

Bogle describes the increased daily volatility and trading with a quote from Shakespeare, «a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.»

Because this story is so grand, we search for it in the books we read, the movies we see, the tales we tell.

Read the mythological tales told in genesis more carefully.

In their employment of considerable fantasy — I am thinking now of those that expose childhood sexual abuse and the like — these narratives resemble fairy tales told in the first person.

Of course you can be proven wrong... your holy book was written by man, no god involved; thus your belief is based on the fairy tales told by men who saw a gullible fool a mile away - see, how easy that is??? As for the actual number being only 1.6 billion, sorry the stats say different and your opinion on who the actual number includes is moot.

Fairy tales tell children that....

When finally confronted with the truth, groupthink becomes fiercely defensive because there's been too much investment of time / energy to risk a demoralizing tale told by a long - gone outsider.

The tales told around my hospital bed illustrate what Geertz and Douglas have taught about world view.

While the Knight's Tale tells of the demise of Creon the tyrant, it ends with ambiguity concerning whether or not Theseus will himself become just another tyrant.

Tales told by many different people.

Keep in mind that the New Testament of the Bible was written decades after Jesus supposedly died, by people who never met Jesus and relied on tales told from one generation to the next.

The blood - and - guts tales told by the ancestors of today's journalists gradually evolved into more civilized literary forms, to provide more complex characterizations, to describe more universal human experiences, to explore more sophisticated levels of conflict.

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.

One does not fear sinning against charity by suggesting that many of these extravaganzas (in which the international ruling class cavorts, off - hours, in the sybaritic style to which it has become accustomed) are, in the Bard's familiar words, «a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.»

Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.»

Oh and additionally... you need to study REAL history concerning the crusades because the notion of converting Muslims to our faith by the sword is nothing but a fairy tale told by revisionist historians who desire to create a history that meets their agendas rather than report truthfully.

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction... Continue Reading»

Very old are we men; Our dreams are tales Told in dim Eden By Eve's nightingales; We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie.

Ransom, we are not the ones who believe, as adults, the fairy tales told to children to scare them into believing..

The people speak, both through their prayers and through the visible tale told through their eyes, and the wind gives voice to the forces of the world about them and impinging upon them; yet God has nothing to say.

Human life is not «a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.»

Your blind following of tales told by farmers and goat herders has imprisoned the intellect of humans on a global scale.

The metaphor is the primordial closer of rifts; its dramatic promise is that unexpected and significant connections will continue to be possible, and its implied threat is that when we can no longer believe in that promise we will have to use another metaphor to express our loss of faith: something like Macbeth's «tale told by an idiot.»

Producers of literature, when they are not themselves wracked with doubts or preoccupied with taking a postmodern revenge on traditional expectations of order, speak out of a prescientific discipline of expectation — a school of faith that models the need to bracket with ironic reservation that information which, if not bracketed, would insist simplistically that life is only a bracket - defying tale told by an idiot.

When Macbeth in the well - known speech is forced to confront the shattering reversal of all his expectations, he sees life as a «brief candle,» a «walking shadow,» an actor «that struts and frets his hour upon the stage / And then is heard no more» and as «a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.»

For some time we seem to have been launched on a great campaign to deromanticize everything even while we are eager to insist that more or less everything that matters is a romance, a tale we tell one another.

This notion of a God that cares about individuals and humanity is a nonsense fairy tale told by people who can't accept not knowing why what we call «bad things» happen.

I have finally plucked the courage to comment, what an inspirational tale you tell Ella all I can say is thank you!.

Here, kids ages three to twelve can enjoy crafts and activities that immerse them in the Southwestern experience, such as making Indian headbands and pinch pots; hearing tales told by cowboy storytellers; learning about local culture, geography and indigenous plants and animals; or splashing around in the Water Playground.

Now, we're asking Homo sapiens to crank up their interesting by telling a better version of the truth — adding that extra something to take their stories from dull to dazzling, whether it's in an Instagram post or a tale told over an ice - cold Dos with friends.»

Thank you too for your love on my tales I tell here, you are the best and I hope the same for you this year too!

This translates as the rather admirable «the prize and the cause of our labours,» a worthy sentiment that was, according to at least one tale told on a forum, at one accidental point debased by the club.

From outrunning a sprinter to jumping as high as cornerbacks and more, here are some tales told by those who have coached him and those who have played with him.

We never found any sign of that duck though there is still a tall tale told that she lives in the wild of the woods on our property.

Today's tale tells of my attempt to keep both my toddler and myself alive during the first trimester (and arguably most of the second trimester).

The story line itself, which sounds like a stream of consciousness tale told by a 3 - year - old, is about some businessmen who get an electric jolt from a telephone they have invented and then are saved by a team of doctors.

This short, soothing tale tells how animal parents get their children to sleep.

The value of this knowledge connects one generation to the next through the tales we tell our daughters, nieces, friends, family, women we might not even know.

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i guess the only people interested in listening to Mr. 9 -1-1 are southerners, prob» ly the last group buying the tall tales he tells.

The police still haven't grasped that central tenant of the cautionary tales we tell children: if you cry wolf too many times the public might just go and decide you can't be trusted.

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It is an engrossing idea and you do not have to agree with every point to enjoy the tale he tells.

There's no telling what kinds of fishermen's tales they told, but the early modern humans who lived on tiny Okinawa Island between mainland Japan and Taiwan nearly 30,000 years ago are the world's oldest known anglers.

Entertainer Whoopi Goldberg's narration makes the complex topics seem like a thrilling tale told around a campfire.

The warriors are following tales told by the local Toltec tribes of a place in the mountains, just 25 miles from their new home, where the gods once lived.

A far as you're concerned, getting scammed is something that happens to other people in the cautionary tales told on the local news.