Sentences with phrase «tells anecdotal stories»

Out - of - school activities in the United States also often include school sports, which are unfairly attacked in The Smartest Kids in the World, Ripley tells anecdotal stories about touring private schools with groups of parents who do not question the guide admitting the math program was weak but balk at the same statement about the football program.

Guests listened while Ms. Lauren shared her pathway to foster, adoption through Five Acres programs and told anecdotal stories (that garnered lots of laughs from the audience) and offered advice for people thinking about fostering or foster adoption.

For more information, check out this BBC Radio program entitled «History of Metaphor» or watch a video of Joseph Campbell telling an anecdotal story on myth as metaphor:

Telling anecdotal stories about Warhol, Pollack, Basquiat, Van Gogh is both (A) fun and (B) has a mythical dimension... if they didn't, they wouldn't have had movies made about them.

Not exact matches

I know this is anecdotal, and that surveys may tell a somewhat different story.

Of course, anecdotal evidence — in the form of first - person accounts of BIC success — also can help you tell the story and overcome stakeholder resistance.

Eager to show his clear - eyed wisdom through rhapsodic reveries on how evil the world is, Cimber tells his favourite story here and in the docu of how the MPAA didn't like the incest and pedophilia stuff in the flick, as though he were imparting a nugget of incalculable anecdotal value.

Much of the anecdotal information is what he received from John Burris, the prosecuting attorney working on Oscar Grant's case, as well as Oscar's family, so, of course, Coogler is not only hearing one side of the story, but also has allegiances to those who helped him research this story to tell Oscar's tale in a manner respectful to their interests.

This handful of examples including my own is but anecdotal, and hardly a representative sample of Surface device owners, but even so, it does tell a story.

Many of the articles and writings descend to vilification, diatribe, emotional rhetoric, personal venting - of - spleen, anecdotal story - telling and name - calling.