Sentence examples for cautionary stories from inspiring English sources

When I told Nick cautionary stories like this and warned him about crystal, I thought that I might have some credibility.

A welcome guest no longer dispensed sage advice or told cautionary stories; instead, one man harangued a crowd, shouting tirades at top volume.

Morgan himself (1837-1913) owned many of the books, which range from the earliest cautionary stories (Aesop's fables and the Grimms' fairy tales) to the inspirational novels of Horatio Alger and the lighthearted verse of Edward Lear.

He also said that he was not advocating violence against the police but was simply telling stories that described reality for young black men and cautionary stories at that, in which violence against the police often leads to death or imprisonment.

Taking images of supernatural female figures found in Islamic mythology Ya'jooj and Ma'jooj Allahyari has created a digital video artwork using 3D techniques to bring their cautionary stories to life, and reinterpreting them in what the artist calls, "a feminism activism practice".

With a shockingly high instance of teenage suicide (one young Catholic related that five people he knew had killed themselves in the past year), chronic unemployment, and the still-present allure of paramilitary organizations in Belfast, some veterans of the Troubles are offering their cautionary stories to the young and aimless.

Now consider a very different, but equally cautionary, story.

But under its nonchalance is a cautionary story about potentially wasted lives.

It became a cautionary story about how not to freshen a lead.

She offered a cautionary story about a community in Africa where women would walk a long distance to get water.

His cautionary story is told in "Trail of a Terrorist," a fascinating, chilling, though often poorly produced installment of "Frontline".