Sentences with phrase «about hunkering»

Boy, I am with you about hunkering down and getting a bit of much needed rest.

Not exact matches

New images beamed down from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show the impact scars from the two tungsten counter-weights and the cruise stage, which broke apart and landed about 50 miles from where Curiosity hunkered down at its landing site, later named Bradbury Landing, in Gale Crater on Aug. 5.

«Come summer, I'll feel less stress about stopping work early to go to a barbecue or movie because I know, come autumn, I'll be hunkering down,» he reflects.

Buzz is great for collaboration, but what about if someone needs to hunker down and concentrate quietly for a few hours?

The cheapest is that JPMorgan's head of activism defense is named David Hunker and I am giggling about the branding possibilities there («Activists threatening?

Instead, everyone hunkers down, ignores the problem and hopes it goes away, defends the attacker, and / or tries to appease the attacker in hopes he or she won't turn and attack them (there was even an article about how to appease a narcissistic church leader in Christianity Today's Leadership Journal this week).

I picked up your book this evening, and now I am about to sit in my comfy chair and hunker down and go through this delicious looking book.

I got so anxious last night thinking about the fact that I haven't booked hardly any vendors, that Thomas and I hunkered down with a bottle of wine and spent our Friday night scrolling through Pinterest, emailing vendors, figuring out seating arrangements, and looking at wedding shoe inspiration.

I told him a few times, «It's good to run around and show what leadership is about, but when rounds are blowing up in your area, you ought to hunker down behind a gun wheel.

And after all this talk of busy days, I know that we have snow coming tomorrow and I'm excited about a quiet day at home - with my older kiddos and Steve likely home from school / work and all of us together for a hunkered down snow day.

I love to write love letters about the bench press, and hunker down, because this is juicy one.

When it's winter sometimes I just hunker down and don't even worry about what I'm wearing.

It's exciting and comically incisive that the first discernable thing about The Hateful Eight is that it's shot in 70 mm — a wide, uncommon, high - res format — and, after an opening salvo of John Ford - like panoramas of snow - flecked landscapes the story hunkers down into what is essentially a pocketed one - room chamber film.

That you're into 6th by about 35mph is at odds with the Golf's tight damping and hunkered - down stance.

You need to be working the chassis hard, but mid-corner you'll feel subtle messages about the weight distribution filtered through to the seat of your undergarments, and when you get on the throttle there's that lovely sensation of the rear hunkering down onto its big 295 - section rubber, squeezing the tyres a little more firmly into the warm tarmac and driving you forwards with supreme traction.

The two aero bubbles on the bonnet are so low and aggressively raked that you really have to hunker down unnaturally low if you're going to gain any benefit from them, and the engine noise disappears in the wind above about 45mph.

The Whipple supercharger emits a friendly whine at idle, the whimpering of an engine that wants to rev. Given the chance to clip an apex, the GT350 hunkers down neatly, its live rear axle forgotten about on smooth surfaces.

The extra weight of the Energi's battery pack (about 300 pounds more than the basic gas - powered Fusion) actually serves to give the car a more hunkered - down feel on the road too.

It sat atop beefy twenty - inch, five - spoke black rims wrapped in 255 - width Michelins and appeared hunkered down, ready for just about anything.

Before the end of the almost 10 - year drought about a quarter of a million people had left the Great Plains, often journeying West (such as the Joads family in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath), but at least two - thirds hunkered down and stayed put, and it is their stories that Egan records.

Some of the tougher - to - navigate online booksellers will have to hunker down and streamline some of their functions (I, for one, don't enjoy having to click about 24 times to find a relative's «wish list» when it was time to shop for holiday gifts).

And while it's popular to hunker down in the bloggoria and shoot the breeze about the «sweet spot» between $ 2.99 and $ 4.99, what frequently is not mentioned is frequency: how many of those things do you have to sell at $ 3.99 — even if you're getting 70 percent — to put together an income?

Whether you have to hunker down or evacuate to safety, there won't be much time to worry about finding food, water, and other necessities — and that's if the store shelves haven't been picked clean already.

Lennart Anderson on painting from life with central vision blindness; what vision loss has taught him about painting; art school; creativity; genius; influence; not fitting in; and hunkering down.

Moore said he wanted to restrict the final questions to «the people in the back who haven't gotten the chance to speak» before hunkering down to sign books for a line of about 200 patrons.

The first such workshop, which I wrote about last year, saw 40 students, engineers, farmers, professors and others from 18 countries hunker down in groups to devise simple, affordable ways to clean water, chill produce, generate electricity, and solve other problems facing the world's poorest communities.