Sentences with phrase «story about greed»
Hear her story about the greed and corruption of those who will and do exploit wild tigers and other endangered species.
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We are quick to quote other commandments against sins that are repulsive to us, but what about the sins of ambition, greed and egomania that manifest themselves in empire - building, money - grubbing, Babel - erecting success stories?
Critics worry that so narrowly tailoring news to an individual's interests could ultimately create an ideological hall of mirrors, with right - wingers reading only about the latest abuses by the teachers union and the ACLU, the left - wingers seeing nothing but stories about corporate greed and John Ashcroft.
Based on a true story about a small - time, self - possessed personal - injury attorney whose greed entangles him in a case that threatens to destroy him.
The movie «Mission: Impossible,» out on video this week, replaces those elements with a story about a comparatively virtuous secret agent trying to survive in a world of shifting loyalties and greed.
Boynton's most impressive feat in Big Men is how she takes an impossibly convoluted scenario, makes sense of it and tells a story that's riveting on its own but also serves as a parable about greed and human nature.
«Mission: Impossible,» which opens today, replaces those elements with a story about a comparatively virtuous secret agent trying to survive in a world of shifting loyalties and greed.
The compromise one has to make about these ideas of war and greed is that Anderson resorts to set pieces that parody action film clichés to advance the story in the second half of the film.
The real story is about greed, what Tolkien termed «dragon - sickness,» and when Jackson focuses on that aspect, «Battle of the Five Armies» finds its footing.
The truth is that current events more than provided Oliver Stone with a familiar and yet fertile backdrop for a new story about America's greed.
If not, Stephen Gaghan's Gold is a fanciful, fictional retelling of a story about Wall Street greed and hubris that is happy to take the cautionary tale and gild it with Hollywood glitz.
It's also a story about infidelity, greed and murder, not necessarily in that order.
It's a story as relevant now as it was in the 1950s about small business owners trying to live the American dream in the face of capitalist greed.
Lawyers Barry Fish and Les Kotzer share their stories of inheritance and greed in this book about disastrous estate planning stories.