Sentences with phrase «more cautionary tale»

Douglas Wight has just completed his first self - published book and has a more cautionary tale to tell.

Yep, the post from the Self - Publishing Advice Center is more a cautionary tale of what not to do BUT if you join the Alliance of Independent Authors you also get a free -LRB-!)

What President Obama termed «the most meaningful education reform in a generation» has proven to be more a cautionary tale than a model.

What President Obama termed «the most meaningful education reform in a generation» has proven, for my money, to be more a cautionary tale than a model.

In May, three more corrupt New York State lawmakers are expected to join the jumpsuited ranks, three more cautionary tales from a State Legislature with no apparent shortage of them.

Now, they're back to share some more cautionary tales.

Not exact matches

A more recent cautionary tale involved the costly unwinding of the Stronach family's control of Magna International Inc. (TSX: MG).

This is more of a cautionary tale of the downside of power and ego.

But more than just a PR disaster, the headlines spell out a cautionary tale for any business with sensitive data and high - value intellectual property.

There's also a cautionary tale in the form of Munchery, a California startup that, like Maple, also runs the «full stack,» but has reportedly suffered from food waste and other issues despite raising more than three times the amount in Maple's coffers.

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.

More importantly for today's Republican leaders of the House and Senate, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, respectively, the story of how Cleveland winged himself back into office presents a cautionary tale that should dissuade their embrace of the current president's more protectionist proclivitMore importantly for today's Republican leaders of the House and Senate, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, respectively, the story of how Cleveland winged himself back into office presents a cautionary tale that should dissuade their embrace of the current president's more protectionist proclivitmore protectionist proclivities.

It's more of a cautionary tale.

The Condor Years is a cautionary tale that urges us to think more carefully about the current battle against terrorism.

What follows is a cautionary tale that, I am sad to report, highlights so many of the things that need fixing in youth sports; issues I have been writing about (or would banging my head against the wall in frustration be more apt?)

(Reuters)- A U.S. food safety summit in Maryland earlier this month has become a cautionary tale after more than 100 attendees came down with suspected food poisoning.

... Ours is thus a cautionary tale for health care reformers: successful HCR for trauma patients will likely require more complex interventions than simply promoting health insurance coverage legislatively,» the study concludes.

Gibson's cautionary tale points to the alarming rise in diseases like diabetes, asthma, and Alzheimer's, warning that more than half of us will die from our genetic vulnerabilities if we stay the course in our do - nothing, eat - a-lot lives.

Certainly an interesting and disturbing film and maybe a cautionary tale for the more gullible of us.

Plagues & Pleasures is more than a cautionary tale about the dangers of messing with nature.

Spanning consumerism, beauty, gender, body commodification, aging and more, Greenfield has created a comprehensive cautionary tale about a culture heading straight for the cliff's edge.

Overall this movie is a cautionary tale showcasing horrors of doing drugs and having an addiction, and probably would be received better if the content within the film was more universally enjoyable.

Much more than a sports film, Lucy Walker's Oscar - shortlisted The Crash Reel is a thrilling, inspiring, yet cautionary tale about extreme sports that never trades on sentiment.

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.

Despite some snazzy camera angles and showoff - y technique, «Limitless» dashes any hopes of originality when it ends up being nothing more than a cautionary tale about drug addiction.

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.

More often than not, filmmakers go the dystopia route, creating meta cautionary tales.

That's the meat, more fetid than fresh, that Nicolas Winding Refn tears his teeth into with The Neon Demon, which gives a deep - red (and Deep Red) paint job to the most moribund of cautionary tales: the rise and fall of a bright - eyed ingenue.

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.

Although Knee is a business - school professor and former investment banker, his book reads less like a coherent analysis of the prospects of education businesses and more like a few standalone cautionary tales.

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.

But for folks here in this quirky swath of tech - start - ups, shopping malls and renovated artist studios, the citywide plan has proven to be less of a solution and more of cautionary tale, a lesson in how hard it can be to take a community schools dream and turn it into a workable reality, even when almost everyone likes the idea.

This is a story not just about one low - performing high school in D.C. but rather a cautionary tale about what can happen anywhere when... [Read more...]

These cautionary tales are something we should be taking more seriously these days.

It was a cautionary tale more than a celebration of fell powers, and the details present in side quests and offhand remarks made it clear that the developers of Shadow of Mordor knew exactly where the game was celebrating Tolkien's mythos and where it was turning that mythos on its head.

It's a lesson more games should learn, if it weren't also saddled with a cautionary tale.

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

Such cautionary tales make British Columbia's carbon pricing experiment all the more remarkable (see sidebar for the elements).

Instead, this message is just another warning, in a growing series of cautionary tales, that the particular application of CBAs or IAMs to climate change seems more inherently prone to being dependent on subjective judgments about structural uncertainties than most other, more ordinary, applications of CBAs or IAMs.

But, ironically, for more than seven years, research that environmentalists have privately conducted on attitudes toward global warming has found the opposite: Cautionary tales and narratives of eco-apocalypse tend to provoke fatalism, conservatism, and survivalism among voters - not the rational embrace of environmental policies.

The cautionary tale: Qualcomm paid more than $ 8 million in fines for engaging in misconduct and concealment when it failed to preserve 46,000 e-mails in its review process during Qualcomm Inc. vs. Broadcom Corp..

«Wholesale privatization without a careful, public examination of other, more citizen - friendly, alternatives is not acceptable,» Free Government Information asserts, while Simon Fodden at Slaw.ca says that even if Malamud is being alarmist, the situation presents «a cautionary tale for any government agency that wants to leverage its records with the help of private enterprise.»

While we're ecstatic that Ms. Friedman is getting the care she needs and we wish her well on her recovery, her experience is a traveler's cautionary tale for at least one reason: her treatment would likely have been more timely if she had carried travel insurance.

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.

A wealthy surgeon's failed attempt to set aside an unfavourable separation agreement is a cautionary tale for professionals thinking of representing themselves in family law... Read more