Sentence examples for cautionary story from inspiring English sources

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

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

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

The hangings have long been seen as a disturbing, and cautionary, story of relgious fervor among some of the first European settlers in the New World.

One woman recalls a cautionary story passed down by her grandfather, from nearby Baluan Island, about the perils of misplaced faith in such an unforgiving landscape.

But under its nonchalance is a cautionary story about potentially wasted lives that feels as close to "The Panic in Needle Park" as it does to a Cheech and Chong movie.

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.