Sentences with phrase «modern cautionary tale»
Facebook is quickly becoming a prolific purveyor of modern cautionary tales for entrepreneurs.
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It is Hamlet's emphasis on what has been called the «incomprehensibility of man» that makes the play something of a cautionary tale for the modern pastor.
First published anonymously in 1818, the book and subsequent films and plays have become what Jon Turney, author of the book Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science, Genetics and Popular Culture, calls «the governing myth of modern biology»: a cautionary tale of scientific hubris.
It's the first in a planned trilogy that is partly a psychological thriller with strong sci - fi overtones (which I suspect will become stronger as the series develops), partly a cautionary tale of modern life, but mainly good old escapist fun (think 1984 meets The Matrix).
Part The Devil Wears Prada and part All About Eve, The Knockoff is a hilarious cautionary tale for the modern woman.