Sentences with phrase «with sad tales»

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.

These dogs all come with a sad tale designed to garner sympathy.

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It makes me sad that so many people conflate facts with fairy tales, and try to insist that just because they believe something, it therefore must be true.

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.

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.

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).

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

I hear tales in my family of great great great Aunts and Uncles sailing from Liverpool and taking the road trains over the mighty continent of America to the West Coast, and think how sad and scared those goodbyes must have been as mothers fare - welled daughters and sons with only the hope of a letter or two.

It's almost as if Sturges set out to tell a sad tale with due solemnity (of a man who never received the recognition he deserved), managed to get so far into it and then couldn't resist throwing in some gags.

Rachel Weisz teams up with director Terence Davies in «The Deep Blue Sea», a sad and heartbreaking tale of love gone beautifully right and amazingly wrong.

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.

Director Tim Burton ditches the remake game for an original piece, and the result is a delicious funny / sad tale with top - notch performances.

With a strong comedic ensemble (Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg, Nina Arianda), the film tells a sweet, sad, slight little tale about a woman whose limitations never mattered as much to her as they did to everyone else.

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.

Click here for Kindle Nation Daily link (Note from Stephen Windwalker: Longtime Kindle Nation readers may remember Jeff Belle as one of the first sponsors of Kindle Nation Daily way back in September 2010 with his debut novella, «Carlos The Impossible» — «a «Ferdinand» for grown - ups... a sort of love story: part tall tale, part sad, -LSB-...]

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.

WiiWare kicks off the week with a strong release in Tales of Monkey Island: Chapter 4 (Telltale Games, Players: 1, E 10 + — Cartoon Violence, Mild Language, Suggestive Themes, Use of Alcohol, 1,000 Wii Points), but then pretty much looks sad.

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.

And with ugly stories like the Scratch dust - up (Genius sues Activision), Band Hero shenanigans (No Doubt and Activision sue each other), and the sad and pathetic Kurt Cobain tale (Courtney Love sues Activision) the genre has lost some of its charm.

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.

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.