Sentences with phrase «tale tells of»

An old tale tells of a man who seeks out the wise elder in the village, hoping for guidance on how to solve the problem that his house is too small.

Today's tale tells of my attempt to keep both my toddler and myself alive during the first trimester (and arguably most of the second trimester).

While the Knight's Tale tells of the demise of Creon the tyrant, it ends with ambiguity concerning whether or not Theseus will himself become just another tyrant.

He always smiled at the tales I told of Alexander the Great marching across 11,000 miles of territory and conquering much of the known world at that time.

Not exact matches

Yet in a recent Harvard Business Review article titled «The Authenticity Paradox,» Insead professor Herminia Ibarra discusses interesting research on the subject and tells the cautionary tale of a newly promoted general manager who admitted to subordinates that she felt scared in her expanded role, asking them to help her succeed.

That means all eyes are fixed on a duo of splashy summer releases — Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and Paramount's Baywatch — to hopefully make up some ground.

According to Julie Rains of OPEN Forum, some of the tell - tale signs of an unhealthy company culture include playing favorites, a lack of constructive feedback and criticism, small issues that get repeated over and over again, employees who are defensive and frequent bending of the rules.

Subsequently, Deadline reported that the movie was «Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.»

This fairy tale told through the comedic skill of director Rob Reiner has become a classic love story.

There are and will continue to be death kick strategies and tell - tale signs of life; smaller more narrowly focused funds, deal - by - deal funds, and a focus on trendy categories like life sciences and alternative energy.

In a new book, The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty, Nina Munk tells a rich tale of one man's hubris.

Bold thinking is a tell - tale sign of an authentic leader.

The boycott is a cautionary tale about the risks entrepreneurs take, and it's also a marketing lesson about knowing your customers, and getting in front of the story you tell about your brand.

That a 15 - year - old girl would be targeted and shot by the Taliban, live to tell the tale and then continue to fight for the education of women in Pakistan is the kind of story that cuts through cultural and geographic boundaries.

In his new book, «Quench Your Own Thirst: Business Lessons Learned Over a Beer or Two,» Jim Koch tells the rollicking, often profane tale of how he built the Boston Beer Company (home of Samuel Adams) and made non-imported lagers safe for discriminating drinkers.

The Federal Reserve's just - released Survey of Consumer Finances, done every three years, tells a stubbornly grim tale.

To combat feelings of stress, anxiety or worry, let's take a look at seven tell - tale signs you're headed for a stress - induced breakdown, and discover what you can do to stop this from happening.

You're all grown up now, but maybe you've noticed some of these tell - tale signs in your own kids.

Though the plot tells a heartwarming tale of father / son bonding, the sentimentality wasn't enough to combat what Roger Ebert called the «most repulsive single creature in the history of special effects!»

The numbers tell the tale: According to our analysis of U.S. Census data, over the next 10 years, the 18 to 49 age segment is projected to grow by only 1 percent to about 137 million.

I could draw similar parallels and tell tales of willful ignorance surrounding the original dot - com boom, or the current echo boom in venture - backed startups, or even the recent gold and silver bust.

2,» Johnny Depp in «Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,» Robert Downey Jr. in «Captain America: Civil War,» and Michael Douglas in «Ant - Man.»

In clinical trials the treatment — which involves extracting individual patients» immune T - cells, modifying them to seek out tell - tale biological markers associated with blood cancers like aggressive lymphoma, and then pumping those modified killer cells back into the body — has shown major promise, in some cases eliminating all signs of the cancer in patients six months after treatment.

Earlier this week the Yale - educated mathematician, only one month into his new gig as a Googler, told the tale of how he snagged a coveted software engineer position at Google in a revealing blog post on The Hustle.

It tells the tale of Casino, who ditched his job as a «notorious criminal defense lawyer» in favor of helping «innocent victims who can not speak for themselves.»

Clients who have become friends tell countless tales of meeting him at the end of one of his 12 - hour seminar days — Robbins exhausted from giving out as much energy as a nuclear power plant to a room of thousands of acolytes — because he wanted to help with a project or problem, even at 2 a.m. «The secret sauce with Tony is that he recognizes that he's not in the transaction business,» says Guber.

The best - selling author and host of The Tim Ferris Show tells Inc. that people too often believe romanticized tales of entrepreneurs who took a huge risk — and ultimately reaped great rewards — by launching their businesses.

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All of this makes for a great story to tell investors and consumers alike, but the business owners agree the tale should never outshine the product.

In many ways, the publicity about the «tell - all» book — not to mention last summer's scandal in which former HubSpot executives allegedly attempted to obtain a predraft copy — has usurped the tale told in the book itself, of Lyons» career reinvention.

Humans have been telling tales for thousands of years, which is why it's a great idea for the flow of your demo to follow a narrative pattern, whether it's a live walkthrough of your product or via a slide deck using visually appealing templates from solutions like Slidebean.

I told Warren, too, and she responded with her tale of Gus.

To illustrate his point, Gladwell zips across continents and decades, telling tales from Nazi - occupied France, elementary schools in Connecticut, and the first exhibition of the impressionists.

Therefore, it's imperative that you learn to pick up on some of the tell - tale symptoms.

They do not in fact bury their heads in the sand as the old wives» tale tells it, but the fact that most of us believe that myth to be true only makes a stronger point: if the move you choose is to burrow in deeper to protect the current nest on which you rest, the odds are high that you're leaving yourself a sitting duck (or ostrich, as it were).

But two items on the list strike a considerably less serious tone: Disney's out - of - the - ballpark animated hit Frozen, which tells the tale of two sisters, nabbed the No. 9 spot (not a surprise, if you have kids or know kids or know of anyone who has kids).

Writing for Psychology Today, Preston Ni notes that «disguised hostile humor» is a tell - tale sign of passive aggression.

You should be cautious not to put too much emphasis on vanity metrics, as they are not the tell tale sign of success that many companies can mistake them to be.

Garden.com could tell a similar tale of woe.

He lost eight years worth of data and tells the tale in the cover story of Wired magazine's December issue.

Instead of telling your tale, ask questions that encourage the speaker to tell you more.

Recently several media outlets have dug up a handful of business owners with worrying tales to tell of Trump's bullying, unfairness, and failure to pay.

Scott Patterson, John W. Miller and Chuin - Wei Yap of The Wall Street Journal tell the remarkable tale of a Chinese billionaire who stockpiled 77 billion beer cans» worth of aluminum in the Mexican desert.

The series» 2017 sequel, which we'll call Disney Infinity 4.0, was set to include material from Cars 3, Star Wars VIII, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Coco, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, and Thor: Ragnarok.

For all the misplaced criticisms aimed at lawmakers» attempts to unpack Zuckerberg's brain — or push him off script — the CEO's testimony told a chilling tale of an immature company seemingly untended and out of control, scrambling to establish mechanisms aimed at preventing the bad stuff from ever happening again.

Flash Boys tells the tale of a Canadian financial services executive, Brad Katsuyama, who spotted a gigantic ripoff in the financial markets and set up a company he hoped would end it.

Unlike three years ago, today the tell - tale signs of a bubble waiting for a pin are ubiquitous.

Bogle describes the increased daily volatility and trading with a quote from Shakespeare, «a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.»

A currency - hedged take on German equities, the iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Germany ETF (HEWG D - 42), helps tell that tale, with gains of 15.4 percent in less than two months.

This weekend, over 100,000 new Coinbase accounts were opened, presumably by people who had an overzealous nephew at their Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday, telling tales of unbridled riches and the wholesale changing of the world that is most assuredly imminent thanks to crypto currency.