Sentences with phrase «simple acts like»

There are few ways to get a room full of RPGers excited than to bring back the fond memories of the Rolemaster Critical Hit Tables, where simple acts like trying to climb a ladder might result in accidentally dropping your sword and dismembering your own arm.

Simple acts like these will let them know that what they are doing is right and will give them positive reinforcement to be good in something that they do whenever you ask them.

The book's real magic is found in simple acts like watering plants and learning when to listen and when to just tip your head back and scream at the sky.

These activities can include simple acts like sneezing, laughing or standing up — any activity that puts pressure on the abdominal muscles.

Explain to your children how simple acts like this remind others that people are thinking about them and care.

The gag reflex is often easily triggered and even a simple act like brushing your teeth can leave you feeling dreadful.

In this and other things, the story operates on a fluid dream - logic, or the storytelling logic of a very small child: Events melt into each other without urgency, and a simple act like making and drinking tea is treated with the same complacent, wondrous gravity as magic that calls wave - monsters into being.

Not exact matches

A simple gratitude practice, it seems, acts like a supercharged version of journaling, helping calm anxious thoughts that can keep us tossing and turning at night.

This simple act will help the other person feel like the only person in the room who matters to you in that moment.

The secret is simple: It's not hard work or long hours; it's acting like a CEO, no matter what the size of your enterprise.

Likewise, even if people are not fond of a particular post, object, person or view, the simple act of clicking like, even when done with no profound intention or conviction, can lead to a rationalization process that will subconsciously make them feel positively about that post, object, person, etc..

The now - endangered fiduciary rule is based on a simple — and seemingly unarguable — principle: that in giving advice to clients with retirement funds, stockbrokers, registered investment advisers and insurance agents must act in the best interests of their clients... It simply doesn't seem like a good business practice for Wall Street to tell its client - investors, «We put your interests second, after our firm's, but it's close.»

«I felt like I've played my way into playing shape now - whether it's the simple act of walking and play, recovery from day to day and playing week to week,» Woods said.

It was really eye opening for me — simple insights like the fact that the first wound most men receive in being circumcised is an intentional act of violence commanded by God — the goal of which is to place his mark upon us, reminding us that we are set apart and specially chosen by him.

I slept like a champ, nursed in the middle of the night with joy, woke up in the morning singing, all of my energy restored by the simple act of doing the work I love to do.

For instance, when these characteristics are perceived as exhibited in an individual enduringly and in a sense in which these are understood to affect the world around in a favorable fashion — either in an objective sense of effecting something concrete outside such a person [like effecting healing, foretelling, acting as medium in a non-rational manner or simply doing good or saying good to help the people selflessly], exhibiting personal traits, conditions and states which are known to be «abnormal» [like going into trances, hearing voices, seeing visions, or just the simple unconventional behavior, which proceed from such an individual's horizon to affect, influence, impact others» horizons]-- or is subjectively perceived to be extra-ordinary — such an individual is said to be godly, god - bearing, pious or saintly.

Like this: «Truly honoring God and the highest and best of all that is, is found in simple acts of kindness and human decency, such as taking care of orphans, widows, and those on the fringes of your society.»

And so my big act of valor this week will be simple: I'm going to pick up the first magazine I see in the grocery store, point to the cover, and laugh like a maniac, right in front of God and everybody.

The bottom line is that simple (not big and glorious) acts of kindness are effective ways of loving others like Jesus.

Spread thickly onto a cracker, it makes for a simple - to - make appetizer for dinner parties or it can act as a makeshift meal when you simply don't feel like cooking.

The quote was a summary of what I'd been feeling and thinking, and like a brilliant reminder, it nudged me not to ever stop creating — whether expressing myself through writing, making art through food styling and capturing the still life through my lens, or the simple act of cooking.

Now that Ole Diz is being heard from coast to coast however (Game of the Week on 190 CBS television stations), it becomes mandatory, both as a journalistic duty and an act of simple kindness, to offer a few keys to the Dean mind — which, like those of Einstein, Freud and other original thinkers, is more easily admired than really fathomed.

Most of the hazards result to hospitalization and they can be avoided by the simple act of baby proofing crucial objects in the home like the coffee table and the bookshelves.

The simple act of playing helps toddlers further develop motor skills, learn important concepts like colors and numbers, and sharpen skills like problem solving, critical thinking, creativity, and more.

If only extended breastfeeding was viewed no differently than the simple act of drinking a glass of water... If it is the author's intent to help normalize the act of breastfeeding, then I wonder how this comment impacts on readers: «There we were, two mothers flapping our breasts like competing strippers trying to entice a client.»?

I can not tell you how useful this tip has been while I have been traveling alone with an infant when simple things like going to the bathroom mid-flight become a juggling act!

Given the many constraints the US Constitution places on the acts that simple majorities can take — like the extraordinary representation of small states in the Senate, and the power of the filibuster to thwart majorities — it strains credulity to argue that certain geographically concentrated interests require added protection from the majority of Americans.

In an experiment that earned him a Nobel Prize, he found that a single - celled creature named Tetrahymena possessed some RNA molecules that could act like simple enzymes.

In other words, are face - recognition cells like simple on - off switches, or can they act like dimmers?

Lashuel says that simple chemical modifications of normal HD protein can make it act like mutant protein - clumping together in «aggregates».

Rather than the simple balancing scale of calories in calories out, it appears that our body acts much more like a thermostat.

If you're forgetful like me, you'll find that the simple act of keeping foods out of sight can be really powerful.

The simple fact is that taking human growth hormone can not only make you look younger, but also feel and act like you did in your youth.

Free radicals are created in many different ways, like when fats go rancid, or even due to the simple act of eating.

It's ridiculous how common it is, act like it's just as simple as getting some stitches on a cut.

Although fruits, dairy, and vegetables are technically made of simple carbohydrates, they contain protein, fiber, and other nutrients which cause them to act like complex carbohydrates in the body.

You can get a different look when you are wearing a simple dress because this heavy pearls or kundans will make the dress look grand as it acts like a collar to the dress you wear.

The sequin looks we talked about earlier this week all hinge on one critical, bling - ed out piece, so it's important to keep the rest of the look simple to avoid looking like a worn out Vegas act.

Melissa's chameleon - like qualities have taken her down a path of great success, and she attributes much of her journey to the simple act of «saying yes.»

It's true early dating excitement can skew the levels as they tend to be higher early in relationships, but simple signs like significant changes in the amount or types of thoughtful acts (i.e. gift giving) or the volume of quality time you spend with them really says a lot.

This simple act will leave him relaxed and feeling like he received a professional facial.

am a God fearing and simple person that believes in Love, i love to model and act, which is my hobby and praying to grow in it, cos it is what i leave for, i have twoo brothers cos am the only daughter andi like travling as well, i grew up in africa, lagos nigeria where i come from, i am in usa now...

A very simple, yet oft - overlooked, truth about the modern dating scene is that neither men nor women think and act like machines.

Because the date was so relaxed, and we were equally enthusiastic about the Harry Potter exhibit, we were perfectly comfortable acting like little kids in front of each other, which made for a really fun, simple date.

These may seem like simple things, but in today's climate, they are bold statements, and small revolutionary acts.

Here the acting is wooden (puppet wooden), lines spoken too fast (as if to emphasize their meaninglessness), the child characters generally acting like adults, adults acting like children, all running around in a simple story, but even more, after awhile, you realize it is about a bunch sets and objects that look like a kid's dreams of military heroism and futile activities carried out in an oddly precise manner.

Like the classic American bait - and - switch, where the enticement of a free steak dinner is the prelude to a sales pitch for a time share in Florida, Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus promises a simple - minded first person shooter before releasing an unexpected sucker punch: a well - acted, visceral meditation on some of the darkest corners of American culture and politics.

It's likely going to center itself around an actor acting really cocky for two hours and without other characters to ground him (like if it's a simple smuggling scenario), I'm not sure that's the kind of story I want to watch.

Few movies can mine so much tension from a pretty simple premise, and the acting is strong like you mention.

The acting is as simple as any fourth grade theater class and it's ability to include the viewer in what's going on is as overstepped as independent pictures like Thumbsucker.