Sentence examples for have been cautionary from inspiring English sources

Most of his columns have been cautionary tales — stories of people who were badly taken by con artists.

Along the way there have been cautionary statements about excessive risk in his tackling, a disturbing sense that sometimes his desire might be self-destructive as it was all-consuming.

The failed US experiment of allowing for-profit companies access to huge federal subsidies should have been a cautionary tale.

It might have been a cautionary tale created (or emphasized) ex post facto as a way of highlighting the deficiencies of bertillonage.

Blessed with a winning smile, Daley was TV gold, particularly when the cameras followed him to his very normal Plymouth home and discovered what might have been a cautionary tale of the pushy parent.

The potential dangerous behaviour is identified on the basis of preview jerk (i.e. the time derivative of the acceleration, Fig. 6c: as the jerk becomes more negative, the urgency of reducing acceleration (or decelerating even more) increases, therefore two jerk thresholds have been selected for cautionary and imminent warning.

He also, earlier in the week, told reporters that the case was "like a soap opera … 'All My Children.' " The story of how Matt ended up in the Sandusky house — laid out in detail by Sara Ganim, of the Patriot-News — sounds more like a tragedy than a soap opera, or, given how many warning signs seem to have been missed, a cautionary tale.

Those trusted with her care should have been aware of this cautionary note from the hospital.

That would have been a rather bleak, cautionary ending, but not so unsuited to our unsettling times.

Watching these brash new careers must have been tough — maybe even cautionary — for the stars who plummeted.

Back in 1987, "Wall Street" may have been intended as a cautionary tale, but it has also always been an irresistible advertisement for the excess it condemns.