Sentences with phrase «sad tales of»

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.

There are sad tales of death houses, or the places that immigrants with no families to care for them could go to die, with an all - inclusive package that include a funeral.

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.

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.

The sad tales of people losing their life's savings abound.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

It's a sweet, sad tale of a crashed pilot meeting a young boy (the title character) who claims to be from a tiny asteroid called B - 612.

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

It's in these sequences that Burton allows his characters to tell one or two stories verbally without visual aids or flashbacks, and they're the saddest tales of all.

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.

Blur is a cold, sad tale of one woman's descent into the abyss of emptiness, and carries the message that liberty doesn't have to be synonymous with complete isolation.

Starring Johnny Depp in his best performance in at least a decade, Black Mass tells the sad tale of how the FBI enabled a small - time criminal's rise to become a mafia kingpin.

To complete the sad tale of Nicky, on the end of the year charts, it would place a miserable 61st, a number that placed it two spaces behind the reissue of The Exorcist.

And sure, that's a pretty great takeaway, but it ignores what a smart, sad tale of attraction, ambition and disappointment the whole film is, with a bristling romantic connection between Pfeiffer's lounge singer and Jeff Bridges» charismatic manchild pianist.

Resolution A-4 (Operating Budget: $ 500,000 Contracts with AstroPhysics, Autoclear, and Ceia — Weapons Screening Equipment and Supplies) tells a sad tale of what has become normal in so many of our schools.

Racing stars — Edward Eves traces the whereabouts of the famous 18/100 Mercedes of the pre Great War period / My years with — Bill Boddy's memories of the celebrated motoring journalist Denis Jenkinson / English Viper — Brian Heath evaluates the»30s Wolseley Viper and tells the sad tale of its untimely demise / European Express — Phil Llewellin visits a stately Bentley R - Type Continental and puts it through its (surprisingly nimble) paces / Swiss Excellence — Elizabeth Bennett reports on the Veteran Tour du Lac Leman / Leading from the front — Part 2 of Malcolm Bobbbit's history of Citroen's legendary Traction Avant / Unorthodox Evolution North Lucas — two men and a brilliant idea that didn't quite work out.

The sad tale of Ron Williamson & Dennis Fritz Ada, Oklahoma local boy Ron Williamson achieved hero status when drafted by baseball's Oakland Athletics in 1971, but within a couple of seasons his baseball dreams had been dashed and he took to drowning his sorrows in alcohol.

And bit by bit, she learns the sad tale of her Mum and Dad, who were too young when she came along and not ready for her.

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.

Garcia Marquez's «The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and her Heartless Grandmother,» a kind of salacious / feminist road story of a teenager whose grandmother prostitutes her all over Colombia to repay a supposed debt.

Developer TheMeatly Games gained notoriety last year with the release of Bendy and the Ink Machine, an episodic first - person horror game that tells the sad tale of an abandoned animation studio crawling with ink - form demons.

Elder Game: MMO game development» The Tragic Story of The Cussing NPCs «The following story is an imagining of what may have led to the sad tale of the cussing NPCs in Champions Online.

My favorite sequence involves the sad tale of the Plague, who is utterly incapable of making friends because they die soon after making contact with him.

Fans have offered to kick in money to fund highly demanded sequels before (the sad tale of Mega Man Legends 3 comes to mind), but I can understand why the old guard of development and publishing may shy away from pursuing the Kickstarter model.

The climate changes being visited on the Arctic are indeed tragic, but the loss is large, abstract, and difficult to grasp — one reason that the sad tale of the loss of Franklin and his 128 men has resonated through the ages, up to a point where the very forces which imprisoned them have now turned, topsy - turvy, to threaten us all not with a superabundance of ice, but its disappearance.

The sad tale of the Hockey Stick is a reprise.

The sad tale of the tape is next — India dreams of nuclear and renewables, but their feet are firmly planted in coal.

On Friday, the Chicago Tribune (via @segelke43) told the sad tale of Brian Gill, who made the mistake at some point in his life of parking his motorcycle at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Ill., without paying.

Point by point these articles by Dana Priest and William Arkin reveal what is to me a sad tale of madness, of a nation suffering from the political equivalent of some auto - immune disease where the response to invasion is unregulated growth and self destruction.

Not exact matches

(There are some exceptions to the rule, as certain tumor viruses demonstrate — see the sad, heroic tale of Nobel laureate Howard Martin Temin, who had the effrontery to challenge said dogma.)

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

It is really sad to see grown intelligent men not just (really) believe in mythical tales and dress weird but also kill each other in the name of their gods.

In a passage telling the sad tale, not of the death of kings, but of the end of Shakespeare's career as a writer of English history plays, Greer points to this new dynamic as the cause:

It's just sad that we still have religions and that such large number of people still believes in these fairy tales even though there is no substance based on any real facts in them.

Epic tale of a Chinese - Canadian dynasty and revealing the sad state of women in Chinese traditional culture.

The psychology of a defeated nation is always a tale of sad and baffled inward turning, and the conference never forgot that these men and women, so many of them with somber faces and all of them with such sad and bitter and baffled thoughts, were brothers and sisters who must receive the fullest consideration, the most gracious and understanding sympathy.

My normal tale of woe is letting the mixture become too wet, sticking it in the freezer in vain hope of shaping it into sad little patties, and then watching them fall apart on the barbeque whilst consoling myself with a large glass of wine.

I'm going to look for this book - I grew up in a neighborhood of Holocaust survivors and as sad as that was - there were amazing tales of selflessness and humanity.

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.

Never forget the sad, strange tale of the Red Sox and Bruce Chen in 2011.

How do I make these complex and often sad stories ultimately tales of triumph and strength and love and hope?

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?)

Let me preface my sad, sorry tale of attachment parenting gone horribly awry by saying this: I do not think attachment parenting in and of itself is a bad thing.