Sentences with phrase «of such anecdotes»

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There is no such thing as a one - size - fits - all anecdote that will turn a speech into a crowd - inspiring oration, and I had to tell her honestly that good speech writing is not a magic trick that entails cherry - picking anecdotes on the order of «Let's win one for the Gipper!»

Under the direction of Murphy, the company created online diaries to document interesting projects, complete with beautiful photography and candid anecdotes about unique challenges, such as constructing a yoga studio in a building with a crooked ceiling.

There is also a chapter of beverage recipes such as Mango Lime Agua Fresca, Sweet Tamarind Tea, and Desert Sage Spritzer; a section on how to host a taquiza (taco party); and entertaining anecdotes from the author.

Instead, Adrian manages to put across his ideas and thought processes with incredible clarity, and seamlessly mixes the more technical stuff with plenty of amusing anecdotes; it's perhaps not surprising that such a creative person is able to express himself so effectively.

Bettina, this is such a great, clear and cogent explanation of the many very biased claims this piece makes, which are not supported by facts, just anecdotes and wishful thinking.

The shallow bafflegab of such positive - thinking pioneers as Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking, 1952) and Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich, 1937) or the «prosperity gospel» preachings of such contemporary «pastorpreneurs» as Frederick «Reverend Ike» Eikerenkoetter, Robert H. Schuller and Joel Osteen are predictably data - light and anecdote - heavy.

Unfortunately for UFOlogists, scientists can not accept as definitive proof of alien visitation such evidence as blurry photographs, grainy videos and anecdotes about spooky lights in the sky.

A president given to endless talk with a preference for making his points via anecdotes (such as one about why a portrait of George Washington is on the wall of a particular toilet), Lincoln, a Republican, favored the adoption of the amendment to abolish slaves as did many in his own party, but to get the required two - thirds vote of the House of Representatives thereby sending it to the states for ratification, he had to bring in some Democrats.

What's most stunning about the anecdotes recounted by Dick's interviewees is how alike they are, and if his film doesn't delve quite deeply enough into the type of culture that breeds such conduct (specifically, the way in which the army projects strength as a masculine trait, thereby subconsciously disparaging female victimhood as an undesirable weakness), its spartan use of graphics and statistics conveys arguments with little grandstanding.

You can choose to listen to any of the audio tracks as this subtitle track provides a virtually non-stop collection of anecdotes, trivia, and hilarious tidbits such as «Before CDs, music was played on records.»

It allowed you to get a sense of Linklater's ideas as an artist through more laidback means, rather befitting of the nature of his films, as he goes about doing various activities with Benning, such as hiking or playing catch, offering anecdotes to the other artist, instead of delivering filmmaking mantras to camera in an interview set - up.

Such admissions aren't going to please the pro-Zionist viewers in your crowd, but The Gatekeepers, a concentrated blast of high - level doubt that gathered heat at TIFF, asserts its importance with each anecdote.

To add to the wealth of such videos on sites like YouTube, we've got an anecdote of our own.

Utilizing a cut - and - paste animation style with a photographic edge to recreate scenes from Hicks's life, usually to cheeky effect, American turns some 90 minutes of interview footage into a smooth, illustrated, altogether agreeable narrative that is chock - full of anecdotes and achieves a genuine intimacy without resorting to hero - worship (only the occasionally lame visual, such as the whitewashed depictions of tripping during Bill's mushroom blowouts at Kevin Booth's ranch, weaken the device).

He and producer Matthew Vaughn are candid about the flaws they see in their work, and they relate a number of amusing anecdotes, such as how the film's featured dog took an unhealthily sexual bond with a number of cast members.

While he begins with the perfect anecdote / moral, he eventually creates a rather maddening loophole in saying that 35 mm is inadequate for capturing actor Danny Trejo's «Leone face» — last I checked, Sergio Leone died prior to the advent of digital video, so how on earth did he affect the cinematic lexicon with such «inadequate» resources?

Most of the anecdotes they offer are of their parenting failures, all of which they recount with an amused twinkle in their eyes, the embarrassment of such moments hardly lessening the affection they still have for their kin.

A trainer is aware of such a need and tells a lot of stories, summarizes cases and his / her experiences, tells anecdotes.

Interesting interviews with senior associates, such as Achyut Patwardhan, Vimala Thakar, Radha Burnier and Mark Lee, convey their experiences and their struggle to understand this extra-ordinary individual.These reports and a collection of anecdotes about Krishnamurti allows the reader to access intimate aspects of his personality that are not widely known.

Informed by countless chilling anecdotes about the consequences of today's tenure and seniority policies, conservative and liberal judges alike may nod in agreement when the plaintiff's attorney argues soberly, «My client shouldn't be forced to fund an organization that advocates for such laws.»

Kohn and other education writers demonstrated how incentives can backfire, and they bolstered their cases with memorable anecdotes of daffy incentive initiatives, such as a Denver Planned Parenthood program's offer to pay teenage girls a dollar a day not to get pregnant.

I would ask a specific question of a certain student, perhaps about a project they were working on or a personal anecdote they had shared earlier, or I would use benign queries such as, «Describe someone you admire.»

In some cases, participants wanted to approach the wiki as a source of information, not collaboration — or wanted the wiki to mediate more traditional, less collaborative kinds of social interactions among teachers, such as sharing lesson ideas or classroom anecdotes (as in Bush, 2000; Dressman, 2000; Stock, 2001).

Garfield's interest in the human side of mapmaking — the personalities, anecdotes, curiosities — is what makes On the Map such an enjoyable read.

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Her presentation rolled out a series of anecdotes representative of various moments that have played a role in such questions as syndication's contribution to homogenized media and the effects that the demands of social - media may have on writing, itself.

Again, I'm in the land of anecdotes here and the upheaval facing such sectors as agenting and publishing is so profound that we won't really know for a time what the most prevalent models will shake out to be.

But again, you can still benefit even if you're not up to speed on such finance luminaries as Leonardi Fibonacci, Irving Fisher or Paul Samuelson (of special interest is Milevsky's anecdote about his personal interaction with Samuelson).

As always, I remain open to the possibility that new evidence may emerge to document benefits from such diets that might justify the risks they present, but for now this feeding approach appears to be simply another form of CAM mythology supported only by anecdote and unsound logic.

We have indirect evidence from (i) intermediate outcomes, such as people pledging to go vegetarian, (ii) evidence from other outreach activities outside of animal advocacy (see, for example, our Conversation with Josh Kalla), (iii) anecdotes, such as people who tell advertising organizations that they went vegetarian because of the ads, and (iv) general intuitions and understanding of psychology and sociology.

One of the extras, who lives in the real village where it is set, gives 90 - minute walking tours and is full of anecdotes as he leads visitors around key locations such as the doctor's house, Louisa's school and Mrs Tishell's pharmacy.

During the tour, Lynn Hershman Leeson gives an account of the conception, development and realization of works such as» Deep Contact «and, alongside less known facts and background information, also provides numerous anecdotes from her artistic creative period.

Yet his purpose with such inclusions is not the personal anecdote; rather, they raise questions concerning the category of the collective — for example, to what extent social structures and the hierarchies woven into them inform our personalities.

The image created by such biographical anecdotes, Boccioni's ruminating self - portraits, and the artistic and personal anxieties of his diaries and letters, which are peppered with suicidal thoughts, befit the trope of the troubled and short - lived avant - garde artist, which from Vincent Van Gogh and Amedeo Modigliani, through the Abstract Expressionists, became prevalent in 20th - century art historiography.

Parallel (2018), by the anonymous Filippino artist Kolown, comprises a series of signs relating absurd anecdotes as historical facts, such as the Spaniards» use of pulverized bricks from Intramuros to treat acne in 1644.

The show features a range of practitioners such as Vonna - Michell who elaborately constructs narratives centred on historical research and social observation filtered through personal anecdotes.

Such an anecdote is quietly infuriating, and points to the exact issue of injustice that taints the whole show: the wispy whorls, fluffy scissor - shaped segments, and chunky clumps of sage green, burnt umber, snapdragon red, and dandelion yellow need no name, yet the presumption that the title should be «prettier,» and the fact that it was changed when the piece went to market, speak volumes.

Having already worked on a project titled The Self - Publisher, gathering refuse photocopying from various shops in different cities, stapling them into ready - made zines full of anecdotes, such as exercise routines or CVs, this project carries on that idea of gathering locally - sourced information.

Organized alphabetically, Learning to Read with John Baldessari — which accompanies a retrospective at Museo Jumex, Mexico City — includes an essay on the artist's approaches to art - making and teaching; a biography of the artist as a teacher; artworks reproduced thematically; and stories and anecdotes from former students such as Liz Craft, Ed Henderson, Matt Mullican, Tony Oursler and David Salle, about their years at CalArts.

The evolution of such an extraordinary oeuvre from such outwardly adverse circumstances over the 30 years of his public career is testimony to this remarkable man's inner qualities beyond any illustrative anecdotes I might have been able to offer.

Another such instance is the impassioned battle against hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas, an arena in which anecdotes, and the absence of transparency in industry practices, have morphed into widespread fear and loathing.

What I said is that the distinction with scientific evidence is that it is subjected to controls for the influence of various biases — whereas citing anecdotes as evidence has no such controls.

But when for most purposes I run up against such difficulties, I am reminded of a profound anecdote taught by one of my economics professors (I degreed in econometrics).

Other journalists would tweet the same line and a number of news outlets — such as BuzzFeed, Talking Points Memo, The New York Times and The Huffington Post — soon posted stories online about the «humorous» anecdote and DNC pushback.

But we all know that in WoW at least (many of the anecdotes used in the article and in the comments relate to that game), every player has to «farm» for resources at some point, whether to complete quests, get resources for tradeskills, earn gold for in - game items such as mounts, or simply for their own in - game profit.

Rosen also writes that statements in the report such as «professional background screening companies routinely make mistakes,» and «criminal background checks often contain incorrect information or sealed information,» are simply not supported by the few cases and anecdotes taken out of millions of reports prepared yearly.

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I have heard a recent similar such, true, anecdote of an industry member being very unprofessional (aggressive) with a FSBO seller.

He includes anecdotes that humanize the homes» powerful occupants, such as Benjamin Harrison donning a Santa suit to delight his grandchildren and Calvin Coolidge grieving over the death of his 16 - year - old son.

Were this (JasBail — just bail) offering a real anecdote and a real restoration contractor was brought out to deal with a situation like the one depicted, the story would include a conclusion — in the sense of why this particular roof had this reoccurring problem, but we don't have the benefit of such a conclusion here.