Telling in example sentence

Whether he intended it or not, what Adam Smith was telling us there, is that the very shape of the institution within which people work creates people who are fitted to the demands of that institution and deprives people of the opportunity to derive the kinds of satisfactions from their work that we take for granted.

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Directing – telling people exactly how to do something – is micromanaging when they can do it themselves.

And I began the speech by telling them the story of what had just happened the day before in Nashville.

Come to think of it, knowing when you're wrong without a teacher, or your mother, telling you, is a very hard problem.

So the next time you pass a jewelry shop window displaying a beautifully cut teardrop-shaped stone, don't be so sure it's just your culture telling you that that sparkling jewel is beautiful.

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