Sentences with phrase «with tales of woes»

He even tried approaching the media with his tale of woe, but reporters just yawned.

The message remains consistent with tales of woe, battle, struggle, love and lust, and it transcends hundreds of years.

Posts cover the rising costs of legal education and the consequences of that, run letters from law school graduates and former law students with tales of woe, and address how much law professors who do (or don't do) what their job asks of them are responsible for law graduates» unsatisfactory outcomes.

We may yet live to see the day when a comic regales an audience with his tales of woe regarding the airlines, big box stores and the like, and is summarily handed summonses by a phalanx of lawyers sitting ringside.

Not exact matches

«Instead, we heard the same kind of tale of woe, the struggling stories, the same defensive nature, with the only twist being a better control of inventory and a sense that they can continue to plod along,» the «Mad Money» host said.

«Shakespeare this ain't, and Gears 3 struggles at times with its forced attempts at heart - string pluckery, but I can forgive it as much; gore - starved guns adorned with toothy chainsaws easily atone for any cheesiness suffered along the way... the Gears 3 story continues with what amounts to a blood - drenched tale of woe, suffering, loss and absolution, cathartica that stands out in harsh relief when framed by the»80s era Schwarzenegger - ness of most of the dialogue.

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.

Other diversions included Ms. Redd the mermaid snapping «shellfies» with guests, a live tiki carving by noted tiki artist Billy the Crud, the Son of Lord Baltimore greeting guests and leading tours, and The Golden Tiki's resident animatronic skeleton Captain William Tobias Faulkner telling his shipwreck tale of woe to all who would listen.

A lot of our friends listened to her tale of woe with disbelief, but I found it rather familiar.

A festive tale of woe then, and very much in keeping with the Dickensian portrayal of the rich / poor divide at Christmas — one of the Labour leaders favourites.

Veloz hopes that, by showing us a cute chick who falls in love with Stahl as he tells his tale of woe, we'll be nudged to follow suit.

Like a repulsive Long John Silver with her parrot on her shoulder (I was waiting for the bird to shit on the old crone), mom gets to tell her tale of woe to the camera.

After all, this is a tale of existential woe told right from Toller's perspective; Schrader wants the viewer stuck in his protagonist's head with no chance of escape.

Bart Freundlich («The Myth of Fingerprints») directs and writes the screenplay to what seems like just another dysfunctional family drama, one that too easily becomes blurred with all the other similar tales of woe.

The film starts in medius rea in the little town of Ojai CA, with Olive (Emma Stone) telling her tale of woe on the Internet.

Budgetary shortfalls, school district bankruptcies, teacher and administrator layoffs, hiring and salary freezes, pension system defaults, shorter school years, ever - larger classes, faculty furloughs, fewer course electives, reduced field trips, foregone or curtailed athletics, outdated textbooks, teachers having to make do with fewer supplies, cuts in school maintenance, and other tales of fiscal woe inevitably captivate the news media, particularly during the late - spring and summer budget and appropriations seasons.

I can share my tales of woe and successes with my subscribers.

Down the bar, a man with a long ponytail who looks sunk in his own epic tale of woe gapes at us unapologetically.

Most women seek commonalities with other women (one complains of an ailment, the other sympathizes with a similar tale of woe) while men tend to one - up the other in a hierarchcal scramble for dominance (a guy has an ailment, so the other guy ignores it, dismisses it, or elevates his own standing).

This pack also contains some exclusive bits of in - game material, namely 3 class specific emotes, 3 armour shaders and 3 exotic items with XP bonuses, and this is where our grim tale of misery and woe starts.

The guy who never seemed to have any major issues with the Meat Circus, even after hearing endless others recounting their tales of woe.

The last time I dined with her in Paris, Chantal was telling me her tale of woe, after she had spent many long months schlepping around town, trying to find a publisher, which in Paris means trying to ingratiate herself with the Parisian literary scene.

And just as I'm prepared to burst through the cubicle walls with tales of former woe and take any steps the article recommends, I am thwarted by this conclusion:

When asked of all of the other candidates, «why they wanted to leave their current position», they answered with a long tale of woe.

They broke my heart a little with their eagerness for human interaction, so I smiled and nodded during their tales of Telstra woe, siblings being in hospital after a «fall», our cupcakes being too expensive and their desire to wipe out every politician with a machine gun...

Here's my tale of kitchen woe... my «half week» kitchen consists of cooking on two card tables (I did put velcro around them and skirted them with country plaid.)