Sentences with phrase «of anecdotes»

The first one was just a series of anecdotes about all the stories I have collected throughout the last decade with epilepsy.

This practice - building resource is an insightful collection of anecdotes on successful and creative marketing techniques used by lawyers and marketing professionals in a variety of practice settings.

«Thank you, sweet,» she says, and launches into a series of anecdotes about the things that have fallen down her false front during her four months in the show.

Though there are plenty of anecdotes supporting this idea, the risks are too great.

He gives a lot of anecdotes from his own family of five children, two of whom were at college when he wrote the book.

We had lots of anecdotes of this style during the development and from there we proceeded on the principle that it was absolutely necessary to have a perfect communication between the different teams.

Naturally, he knows his city inside out but in addition was very charming and witty and full of anecdotes.

The answer is that the number and types of anecdotes of clear and significant benefit is too large to ignore.

I enjoyed the book, although I was already familiar with many of the anecdotes in it, and have even met some of the people mentioned.

Make use of anecdotes, facts, statistics, and your personal observations as supporting evidence.

The book is written in the form of anecdotes form the partnership letters, followed by commentary from the author.

The relevance of those anecdotes to today's situation is hard to see.

Although I am wary of anecdotes, because they have no statistical value at all, I do want to share the sales figures for my non-fiction book.

They'll make you feel connected to the places you travel through with a mix of anecdotes, history, and personal stories.

Later, he incorporated many of these anecdotes into stories.

The charm of anecdotes is that they are about people.

And speaking of anecdotes... we're currently on a 5 month waiting list for my wife.

The choice of anecdotes, balancing sadness with humour, gradually builds our involvement with these men to the point I was quite affected by the final scenes.

We are well placed to see the repetitive nature of these anecdotes.

The report is a collection of anecdotes based largely on news stories, with no apparent methodology.

It helps to create a list of anecdotes you can draw on, focusing on situations where your action has a clear, positive outcome.

The group has yet to try and quantify the time and financial savings they've generated for the companies they've assisted, but they are already hearing plenty of anecdotes.

I published my first book on global warming in 2004, and I was determined to make it scientifically credible rather than just a collection of anecdotes.

Whether there is a use of anecdotes and examples taken from the personal experience and from the authoritative scientific sources.

But a lot of it does take the form of anecdotes — stories of other people and how they managed their own money.

I was reminded of this anecdote from within the legal profession when reporters finally came face to face with Dean Skelos Tuesday outside the Capitol.

Few people knew of George Jones who did not immediately think of the anecdote of his riding a lawn mower to the liquor store after the authorities, and his long suffering wife, took away his freedom to drive a car.

While the number of anecdotes of PC users switching to Macs, BlackBerry users opting for iPhones, and iPads being embraced is no doubt on the rise, there is a lack of hard data to track these trends against.

This post largely will consist of anecdotes from Mr. Klarman which are all quoted and underlined, with a few comments from myself.

Cotton memorialized Moose for his children in this touching book of anecdotes about living life to its fullest and striving for success.

The Treatment is her second artist monograph, following Alphabet: A Selected Index of Anecdotes & Drawings, published in 2012.

The sudden access to loans from Zigama - CSS in 1997 is an abundant source of anecdotes even today: one soldier spent a year's loan on rounds of drinks in one night; another used the entirety of their salary to repay their loan from Zigama - CSS to buy his family a house, forgetting reserving money for his wife to survive while he was at the front.

The whole point of the anecdote at the head of this post isn't, IMO, that the scientist OR the journalist were «wrong» in some way; the point is the difficulty of finding a meaningful intersection between very different contexts.

The writing is engaging; warm, funny, sad and her sharing of anecdotes about family and friends such as Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff round out this beautifully produced book.

But while she offers an assortment of anecdotes, questionnaires and other exercises to get you micro-stepping closer to your objective, she doesn't want you to jump in and order new business cards just yet.

Glimpsing a stream of anecdotes evidencing human depravity every time one looks at one's phone isn't fertile ground for hope.

A heart attack suffered by Labour politician Leslie Spriggs in 1974 became the subject of an anecdote by MP Joe Ashton, illustrating the sometimes extreme lengths party whips would go to in cases of Division: