Sentences with phrase «more as a cautionary tale»

Even today, I would argue that it should be viewed more as a cautionary tale than as a true failure.

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Venice has become a beautiful cautionary tale, a city that is more theme park than home, as local grocery stores and butchers are pushed out for yet more hotels and boutiques aimed at well - heeled tourists.

Its descent into chaos should serve as just the latest cautionary tale to other countries that are willing to risk stability and prosperity for even more socialism.

But she apparently missed all the cautionary tales of abuse heaped on beauty brands such as SheaMoisture, Dove, L'Oreal's Elvive and more in social media the past year over slights against women of color — either real or highly enhanced by the outrage machine.

Since they remain the same while the characters age, the play's events are seen all the more clearly as a story, a cautionary tale that has already happened, rather than as something we should drum up suspense about.

The film will likely end up as much of a true story drama as a cautionary tale about privacy, data mining and more.

Year 3 follows Emmit, the Parking Lot King of Minnesota, who sees himself as an American success story, whereas his slightly younger brother Ray is more of a cautionary tale.

It may have more bite as a cautionary tale if Belfort hadn't essentially gotten away with it and was profiting from it even to this day (even if he is still in arrears to the US government).

Meanwhile, the ending, originally meant as a cautionary tale is now even more important as a disturbing reality.

I wish Stoller had been more willing to simply throw us full bore into the train wreck that is Aldous's life — you know, like This Is Spinal Tap did with its horrifying rock star idiots we couldn't look away from — but I'm struck with a terrible certainty that Greek believes that it needs to spell out, in no uncertain terms, a cautionary tale about how the «glamorous life» ain't so glamorous and «ordinary life» as lived by us mere mortals is far better.

But for those who believe that higher - education improvement is more likely to result from the efforts of educators, communities, and entrepreneurs than from the dictates of officials in Washington, NCLB's legacy should serve as a cautionary tale.

While Middle - earth: Shadow of War mostly escaped the intense scrutiny and anger directed at two of 2017's biggest loot box / microtransaction cautionary tales, those being the much - maligned Destiny 2 and the even - more - widely - detested Star Wars: Battlefront II, the game was nonetheless «review bombed» on platforms such as Steam and Metacritic by gamers who were unhappy about Middle - earth: Shadow of War's monetization system, and it thus went on to become a popular example among pundits of the dangers behind poor implementation of microtransactions and loot box economies in triple - A video game releases.

These cautionary tales from the plugged - in crowd at Inman Connect this year reveal ideas and practices that practitioners should ditch as they move toward a more connected world.