(1) As Aesop reminds us at the end of the fable: “Nobody believes a liar, even when he’s telling the truth.” When leaders choose only the facts that suit them, people don’t stop believing in facts – they stop believing in leaders This distrust is both mutual and longstanding, prompting two clear trends in British electoral politics.
(2) Young adolescents typically operate under a state of cognitive egocentricism or "personal fable" such that they perceive themselves invulnerable to many risks, such as pregnancy.
(3) Mr Graham's play deals with the dramatic years of the 1974-9 Labour government, when Labour's whipping operation, masterminded by the fabled Walter Harrison, involved life or death decisions to fend off Margaret Thatcher's Tories.
(4) Development factors include pre- operational thinking, which prevents future planning and may require experience with sex to learn about it, and egocentricism, which implies an imaginary audience and the personal fable that "it will never happen to me."
(5) In a country addicted to novelty and invention, he was proceeding to supply an instant lore of allegory, myth and fable.
(6) The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies First up is the debut teaser for The Hobbit: The Battle of The Five Armies, the final instalment in Peter Jackson's epic three-part adaptation of JRR Tolkien 's whimsical fantasy fable.
(7) 7 Nightswimming REM's biggest album – 18m copies sold internationally and counting – was as southern a record as Murmur or Fables of the Reconstruction.
(8) My paper, in fable form, addresses some of the conditions in the United States and in Canada which reduce the ability of members of the community from making improvements in their health and changes to the health care system.
(9) Timbuktu, his most recent narrative of a dog's life by a canine narrator, aims for the simplicity of fable; some found it just simplistic.
(10) Examined is the clinical use of fables in the evaluation of child sexual abuse.
(11) And another on the Esalen Institute , the most fabled of these.
(12) The high-minded answer to that would offer an Enlightenment fable of dispassionate scientific curiosity.
(13) Mailbox What we say: Mailbox is one of the better ways to attain the fabled Inbox Zero – or at least try to – by swiping unwanted emails aside like they’re unwanted matches in Tinder.
(14) Bookcases line the property: there are tomes on Hitler, Disney, Titanic, J Edgar Hoover, proverbs, quotations, fables, grammar, the Beach Boys, top 40 pop hits, baseball, Charlie Chaplin – any and every topic.
(15) Dr Mohamed Diagayeté is in an agitated state as he stands in front of stacks of green metal cases containing thousands of invaluable ancient manuscripts from the fabled medieval city of Timbuktu, northern Mali .
(16) Phil Johnson explains the continuing faith in these stories by reference to scripture: “The Bible says people like fables.
(17) When most of his colleagues fled Iran in the wake of the 1979 revolution, Kiarostami stayed put, shooting his acclaimed neo-realist fables about rural life and human mysteries, and picking up prizes from the world at large.
(18) The connection was his then-editor Jeremy Thomas (now a fabled producer) , whose uncle Gerald directed the whole series.
(19) The efficacy of the fable assessment technique is discussed, as are issues in the use of projective assessment with children.
(20) The Blairites, as ever, neurotically fear the fabled lurch to the left, and will not go quietly.
Legendary
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends; consisting of legends; like a legend; fabulous.
(n.) A book of legends; a tale or narrative.
(n.) One who relates legends.
Example Sentences:
(1) Richards was a feminist who, rather than scaring men, stung them with her wit, a technique she famously applied to President George Bush senior in what became a legendary quip in American politics.
(2) But among the football-faith community the legendary Anfield Road stadium is not considered a sacred site for nothing, and on this memorable night everyone felt what mighty magic can be summoned here.” Describing the match as “a classic in the illustrious history of these two clubs for years to come”, the commentator Daniel Theweleit also believed that the atmosphere at Anfield put Dortmund’s own famed fan culture into the shade: “Even those who have watched the club for centuries agreed that Dortmund has never achieved this kind of intensity.” Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung found satisfaction in seeing the German coach Jürgen Klopp exporting his magic touch across the Channel.
(3) Bungie has several staff who worked at the legendary animation studio and who brought with them the company’s approach to facilitating creation.
(4) Forman’s legendary London Cure smoked salmon is about to boost its credentials further when it will be awarded the highly prized European protected (PGI) status.
(5) • The 2013 budget deficit will be 4.5% of GDP • The Portuguese economy is expected to shrink by 1% in 2013 • Total austerity measures = 3.2% of GDP • Average income tax rate will rise to 11.8% • Total tax brackets will fall to 5, from 8 (pushing many people into higher brackets) • Public service job cuts • Reductions in pensions (totalling around €400m) 6.19pm BST SOROS: EURO CRISIS IS A NIGHTMARE Legendary fund manager George Soros has criticised eurozone leaders for creating a "nightmare" situation that is heading towards a depression, during an event in New York today.
(6) While Arsenal prepare to take a final bow at their legendary Highbury home after Saturday's match against Wigan Athletic, the club's startling new empire half a mile away, the Emirates Stadium, is an issue in tomorrow's local election.
(7) "To be invited to co-headline the 40th-anniversary celebration at the legendary Knebworth House is truly a mindfuck," Metallica's Lars Ulrich said in a press release.
(8) He developed a parallel career as a rock video director after mentioning in a meeting with record label and film company Warp that he loved the Arctic Monkeys, and ended up directing a string of videos for them (given the band's legendary reticence, the mind boggles at what the initial meeting was like) as well as Vampire Weekend , Kasabian and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs .
(9) I also never thought I’d see legendary goalkeeper Gabor Kiraly showing off his grey sweatpants at a major tournament.
(10) I've come to Austin, legendary birthplace of Spam (the canned as opposed to the digital version), to find out what this self-publishing revolution looks like in the flesh.
(11) Some of the discos – or “pipers” as they were locally known, in homage to Rome’s legendary Piper nightspot – were visibly influenced by Andy Warhol’s multimedia experiments at the Dom nightclub in Manhattan, home to the Exploding Plastic Inevitable events, where the Velvet Underground would play amid lightshows, dancers and projections of Warhol’s films.
(12) On Friday in St Petersburg, Florida, the legendary pro-wrestler, whose real name is Terry Bollea, delivered a $115m legal hit on the iconoclastic web publisher, a victory that signals a significant change in the public’s tolerance for media invasions of privacy – and that could bankrupt the site.
(13) Start with pasteis de bacalhau , Portugal’s legendary cod fritters.
(14) He became a member of the legendary Cambridge Apostles.
(15) It makes up part of our legendary picaresque national character, and our weak culture of solidarity."
(16) In real life, before Play, Moby was bumping around New York, getting DJ gigs in now legendary clubs like Mars and Nasa, as well as awful swingers’ nights (he says he would play anywhere).
(17) Warren Buffett, the legendary investor, moved up one spot to third and is one of the 42 Americans in the ranking.
(18) His nom de guerre was Sayyed Zul Fikar: Sayyed indicating a claimed descent from the prophet Muhammad; Zul Fikar being the name of the legendary forked sword of Imam Ali, the prophet’s cousin and one of the most revered figures in Shia Islam.
(19) Only the pioneering cardiac anomalies repaired by Gross (patent duct arteriosus, 1938), Blalock and Taussig (tetralogy of Fallot, 1944), and Crafoord and Nylin (coarctation, 1945) and the legendary aortic grafting operations of Oudot (occlusion, 1950) and Dubost and coworkers (aneurysm, 1951) are not a part of this article.
(20) • The death this week of the legendary folk singer and activist Pete Seeger has drawn tributes from all quarters, not least two of Labour's leftier parliamentarians, Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, who tabled an early day motion in tribute.