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What makes the anecdote a puzzle was that the consequence of it was not found.

In my anecdote I referred to the "unexpected behavior" of the application, when in fact I just didn't understand how the system works.

Every time he does something horrendous, think how much you will enjoy retelling the anecdote later on.

As a writer, Mr Montefiore has an elegant turn of phrase and an unerring ear for the anecdote that will cut to the heart of a story.

This devotion is the reason that the traditions of southern India represent him as celibate (see the anecdote Devotion to his mother).

There is another version about this anecdote which says that Chruchill had nothing on when he heard someone knocking at the door.

To be certain, the contraband rice trade is at this point simply an anecdote, however widely bandied about in the grain market.

Been very careful to leave out of any story, anecdote, or gossip about the town.

To begin with, it was an anecdote he shared only with friends or new acquaintances.

But I remember an anecdote I once heard from one of my German friends. Shortly after the unification, an Ossie and a Weissie meet in Berlin.

Mr Krugman has always been an exemplar of clear economic thinking and a champion of data over anecdote.

My professors would be more eloquent in a theoretical rebuttal of that charge, but I want to counter it myself with a personal anecdote.

As the Truman anecdote indicates, a president can only control so much.

Before we finish our interview, Howard is keen to tell a further anecdote about Nuremberg's would-be number one inmate.

It can be used as a pause or a colon: very handy for spinning out a mere anecdote into a playlet that's full of parody and speculation.

Far from being just an anecdote from the animal kingdom, these networked cows are part of an exciting technological trend.

He had begun an anecdote, and in his broad expanse of face his tiny mouth writhed like a caterpillar.

Mr Das has a keen eye for an anecdote, and the early chapters give the reader plenty of chances to chuckle at the hubris he reveals.

Should this anecdote persuade you to purchase the supplement, even though scientific data suggests different?

Mr Halliday's monumental work, though full of colourful anecdote, may not appeal to the general reader.

Defining anecdote On France's Spitting Image-style puppet show Messier is depicted as a baby with a business brain.

Long form is a lot like the short news pieces, in that you still have to find anecdote. But there is a much heavier burden: longer.

In this collection there was a certain continuity of personnel and anecdote in one series of five letters.

To hear the "French Revolution" creative story book it? But I have deep feelings about the anecdote .

Thomas Jefferson sometimes figured as an inventor himself, and there is an anecdote which vividly portrays the character this mind.

Edwards begins his book with an anecdote about a meeting he had with Page back in 2002.

Someone said that the anecdote illustrated Americans' desire to get to know China better with more people studying and doing business there.

You'll, often get a laugh or a sigh followed by a "tell me about it" . . . followed quickly by an anecdote.

The anecdote from the beginning of this article?

It's a humorous anecdote now; but the truth it reveals is less than funny.

It is illustrated by my favorite anecdote about him.

Now you are getting back to the anecdote I told at a lecture in Canada, as I reported on the Pursuit of Love.

As the anecdote above shows, a well-crafted television advertisement on CCTV could miss university students entirely.

Besides revealing Klein's grand expectations for himself, this anecdote helps to illustrate why he is still so difficult to classify.

anecdote He told one or two amusing anecdotes about his years as a policeman.

And so before long I began to introduce the key-slot anecdote into my discussions with Chinese educators.

In her letter she shared an anecdote about my mother (now long deceased).

Bross borrows from this anecdote, saying he joined Huawei not for the fat paycheck but rather for a chance to unite two cultures.

Now the snag in this sort of anecdote is of course that one cannot distinguish cause and effect.

Not really bothered by the idea of conflict tourism or turning someone else's struggle for freedom into your bar-stool anecdote?

Indeed, he was in such high spirits that he even sent me a funny anecdote*.

For Roberts, the anecdote amounted to a parable on the pitfalls of economic forecasting.

Statistically significant proof of being incorrect is worth far more than another anecdote that supports your cause.

One anecdote involves an advertisement by Baidu , China's most popular search engine, teasing Google China for not knowing Chinese.

According to one popular anecdote, one of Nunb's lines translates to "one thousand herds of elephants are standing on my foot. "

He had many an anecdote of the gilded youth of his time.

A glimmer of hope, however faint, can be appealing, a mere anecdote can prove persuasive.

But to explore claims of biological advantages and challenge ideas of purity, neither anecdote nor instinct is enough.

fascinating anecdote , although its relevance to my condition isn ' t exactly.

Supposedly, there is an anecdote, it may be true, may not be true, about the life of Saint Augustine.

One approach assumes that the resources of one's own ego - prejudice and anecdote - are sufficient to settle a question.

That's a peppy little anecdote. - Let me tell her.

We have noted above, this anecdote to an important thing about Apple: Apple's invincible reputation in fact inconsistent.

You come here more than other students to exchange, you can grow your story, anecdote, or home, I believe you will find good friends.

He introduced his speech with a humorous anecdote.

We're not talking stand-up comedy, but insight-oriented commentary, achieved via anecdote and metaphor.

Magnitsky had hardly finished his anecdote when another gentleman expressed his readiness to relate something even more amusing.

So, let's pull back from the anecdote for a second and look at our society from high above.

He preceded his lecture with a humorous anecdote.

In interviewing friends who remembered Dunham and her son from that era, Scott unearths a telling anecdote.

Virtually every high-end Singapore real estate agent has an anecdote about the immense wealth of Chinese clients.

How often have you noticed that today's biggest worry turns out to be tomorrow's most interesting anecdote?

To mere mortals, a graphic metaphor, a compelling anecdote, or a striking fact is worth a thousand articles in Econometrica.

Sir, might we press you for an anecdote?

The Host Bored his guests with a long and pointless anecdote.

My teacher (I believe his name was "Mr. May" ) shared a brief anecdote from the prior evening.

Here's my own anecdote on U. S. intelligence.

His sunny persona is unaffected, and Lang Lang is on to an anecdote about his former teacher, Graffman.

He introduced his speech with an anecdote.

As Nisbett complained, "Once you've got the anecdote, you can throw away the data. "

Don't hijack their story about skiing before it's finished to share your best skiing-anecdote.

Until now, the argument that couples should wait until they are married before they have sex has rested on mere assertion and anecdote.

I still remembered an anecdote of my childhood.

Concept : An anecdote always starts with Today and ends with FML. There are no taboo subjects, feel free to express yourself.

In Haidt's article "Elevation and the Positive Psychology of Morality" he includes an anecdote from Thomas Jefferson's life.

I related the anecdote, whereupon he laughed heartily.

Dr. Miller told an anecdote of how he caught two students plagiarizing.

There is an interesting anecdote about the origin of Goubuli steamed stuffed buns.

We like to talk about the anecdote of our college life when we get together.

He told me some anecdote about our English teacher.

People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats, and plunge into anecdote.

I shared an anecdote that shows another instance of animals showing the way.

The question sparks an anecdote about the Korean war.

This weekend's Financial Times provides a simple anecdote of how this is already happening.

He also serves up by far the best anecdote about the real workings of state capitalism.

Yet as a writer, you have to add something more than the anecdote - a deeper truth.

But it stays an anecdote because the public couldn't identify to it.

I think enough time has passed that I can share the following anecdote.

Carnegie uses anecdote after anecdote to illustrate the best way to make the most of human relations.

The anecdote reaped 147 mostly positive comments.

This is a more significant anecdote than any tale of flying spittle.

Certainly an anecdote.

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This ExcerptaRiccardi manuscript has been datedaround 1580, and therefore the anecdote is probably apocryphal.

Heywood is regaling the table with some anecdote about Andy.

An anecdote explains why.

Where there is a large copper mine, also a foreigner found under the malachite, which is the leaves of a 18th century anecdote.

But an anecdote will suffice.

When their turn came, they'd share a personal anecdote that one of the objects had brought to mind.

There she read an anecdote.

But, first an anecdote!

That is a tall order for most of us, but if you can relate your desire for the job to an experience or anecdote in your life, do it.

She must have some juicy new anecdote.

In an interview with David Letterman, Carter passed along an anecdote of a translation problem in Japan.

I will begin by telling you an anecdote.

The anecdote came off to some as almost too perfect.

Share a unique fact or anecdote about your map or the process of creating it. 1-2 lines maximum.

An anecdote may serve to point up the intensity of this enterprise loyalty in Japan.

As it is, he has had to rely on gossip, anecdote, dubious official reports, speculation and extrapolation.

'I want the fact that he has gone to school here to be more than simply an anecdote, ' says Mr.

Anecdote about the Speech at Shakespeare Birthday Celebrations

In January, China Daily highlighted the need for better protection for Good Samaritans in China with an anecdote:

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Anecdote of Several Organic Reactions in Daily Life

The Kim anecdote does give an opportunity to recount the litanyof Kim food-related lore though

The writer uses an anecdote to make a point

To close with an anecdote;

An Anecdote about Andrew Carnegie

Give an example or real life anecdote

Take, for example, an anecdote reported by the Associated Press:

An Anecdote in the Park