Sentences with phrase «sad tale»

And the way I see it there are just so many sad tales of abuses to air, water, earth.

On the one hand, it is an incredibly sad tale of rejection and grief.

But as this short but sad tale shows, private industry works better when government gets out of the way — not when it plays a key role.

It's the same old sad tale when one finds itself challenged by a better and less expensive alternative.

Too many rescues tell sad tales - but are really perpetuating commercial and sometimes substandard breeding - note than many auction dogs are other than AKC registered.

Over and over again passionate advocates of companion animal welfare rail against the «irresponsible» public; tell stories of people surrendering their animals for the most minor of reasons; fill their pages with sad tales of animals abandoned, ill - cared for, unclaimed or lost.

In sad tales, the author is a kind of despot - sadist who leaves us yearning for something more meaningful.

What a pity that the other side has such a very sad tale to tell — of grief and bitter regret at worst to disillusion and feelings of failure at best.

A sometimes cautionary, often humorous, and always sad tale involving a friend, sibling, or father who brought home a brand - new Fiat decades ago only to be subjected to years of breakdowns, engine fires, and other mishaps until the car finally put the owner and itself out of their mutual misery by rusting into the ground.

There are many sad tales of travellers to Sydney having no where for their family to stay as they misread the indicators and thought they could grab a great standby deal.

This sets up the temporarily sad tale of Byron Buxton, who is back in the minor leagues after another miserable trial in the majors.

Even in Katie Prown's own state, the data tell the same sad tale over and over again.

The indictment can also be read as one of those unfailingly sad tales of a father who can not stop indulging a grown son.

This isn't primarily an adventure story, though it's very suspenseful; it's first and foremost a profoundly sad tale of human frailty.

Years after The Squid and the Whale, a terrifically sad tale of divorce and family break - ups, Noah Baumbach was still searching for that right mix of tragedy and the wry laughter that comes out of it in short, sharp, painful bursts.

L.M. Kit Carson shares the diary he kept during the five years he and Jim McBride struggled to remake Godard's Breathless; Stephen Farber chronicles sad tales of unreleased movies; and David Ehrenstein defines The Aesthetics of Failure, from Cleopatra to Heaven's Gate and beyond.

Web browsing is a similarly sad tale draining the battery almost as quickly as video playback and notably grinding to a stuttering halt when navigating complex web pages.

Enriched by flashbacks to the alluringly sad tale of Anyusha's mother, a famous Russian refusenik who died for her beliefs, The Wanting is a poignant study of the costs of extremism, but it is most satisfying as a story of characters enmeshed in their imperfect love for one another and for the heartbreakingly complex world in which that love is wrought.

Too often I hear sad tales of an existing pet developing FIP after the introduction of a cat or kitten from a high - risk source, such as a breeder or rescue shelter.

It is overall a very sad tale.

I want her to know...» If you want a nonfiction account of what happens when fathers encourage daughters to get «in touch» with their sexuality because «it is not so big a deal,» read Hustled: My Journey From Fear to Faith (Westminster / John Knox), Tonya Flynt «Vega's sad tale of what it was like growing up as Larry Flynt's daughter.

In fact, Gates is so enthusiastic about this sad tale that he calls Kalanithi's memoir «an amazing book.

According to Wilson, these two companies tell a sad tale about the IPO market.

If you need further proof that the oilsands is a big boys» game, consider the sad tale of Connacher Oil and Gas.

«It's a sad tale that former friends are seeking to take the company from its founder and 50 percent owner and put it on the block.

Or, surely, you have the seen the sad tales on television about older workers who are suddenly «let go».

Is this a sad tale?

If there is any lesson at all in the sad tale of Pharaoh in Exodus 1 — 14, it is that pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall (Proverbs 16:18).

This past weekend was quite a whirlwind of disappointment for Reds and Bengals fans, but I do like how this Honey Mustard Salmon matches the pictures of the sad tale below.

While that seems like a sad tale, it's not.

It's sad tales like this that remind me why I haven't watched a pro baseball game since the strike.

Anecdotes might help, like the sad tale of Tennessee almost scoring a touchdown on offense.

Prepare yourselves, friends, for the sad tale of Henri Belle, a 25 - year - old Cameroonian winger who plays in Croatia.

On Saturday 4th November, another chapter was added to the sad tale about Luch Energiya.

May 12, 2003 — It's a sad tale: families who can't afford cribs with firm mattresses may be putting their newborns at risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

A sad tale of missed opportunities and unforced errors despite having waited since 1992 -LRB-!)

This sad tale is told by Giles Udy in Labour and the Gulag Russia and the Seduction of the British Left (Biteback).

Instead this sad tale full of loss and missed opportunities is one that the viewer can relate to.

They pushed to have records unsealed, and they chased down many threads to a strange and sad tale of deception.

The sad tale of the Lobbying Bill shows us how.

It's a sad tale of IT that didn't work, dreadful customer service and ineffectiveness — the agency failed to realise its purpose of getting errant fathers to cough up.

It all amounts to a sad tale of friendships and long associations disintegrating in the face of a criminal investigation.

While my sad tale certainly qualifies me for induction into the disgruntled Ph.D. hall of fame, there is a career lesson to be found here: how graduation uncertainty affects job search strategy.

On 28 May, this magazine related the sad tale of the great auk, the penguin of the north, hunted from abundance to extinction by hungry seafarers and, in its last days, scientists («How collectors killed the great auk»).

That sad tale fits with previous observations of dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way and having their matter stripped away.