Sentences with phrase «about knee jerk»

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It's usually a knee - jerk reaction to some uncomfortable modern issue or in defense of one of the many historical myths children in the mainland are taught as unshakeable facts about the world.

Walsh said she had a «knee - jerk» negative reaction when she heard Bloom was representing Weinstein, but changed her mind when she thought about projects Weinstein worked on that benefited women and heard Bloom's explanation.

Now I realize that I've written recently about the scourge of stupid and knee - jerk sharing, but in these kinds of specific instances, smart sharing gets the job done right.

«The knee - jerk instinct is to respond that when a proven strategy is so exceedingly out of favor that its viability is questioned, the cycle must be about to turn around.

As usual, the people most agitated about this are the governance mavens with a knee - jerk reaction against anything that undermines shareholder democracy.

Another expert, University of Georgia meteorology professor Marshall Shepherd, said that «while we have to be careful about knee - jerk cause - effect discussions, the National Academy of Science and recent peer - reviewed literature continue to show that some of today's extremes have climate change fingerprints on them.»

Given that most politicians» main aim is just to stay in power, the knee - jerk policy responses by the regime of the day is not encouraging, so pondering their reaction to a significant % of the electorate panicking about their mortgages is nightmarish.

When I read what most investors have to say about a company - it could be Domino's, it could be U.S. Lime, etc. - they have too quick, too knee - jerk a reaction to the business.

So today, America's conservatives need less of the Reagan-esque optimism and the knee - jerk patriotism and more of the hard wisdom about democracy one gains from political philosophy, and from a more realistic assessment of our own history.

Part of why I think Jesus talks so explicitly about loving our enemies and turning the other cheek is because it isn't our knee - jerk reaction; it doesn't necessarily come naturally to us.

Our knee - jerk responses to any questions about sexuality have been reminiscent of purity culture, with slogans like «save yourself», «flee», and the like.

My own experience in teaching religion and theology to middle - and upper - middle - class undergraduates and graduate students in America for the past decade or so certainly suggests that this way of thinking about religion fits neatly with a strong tendency toward the kind of knee - jerk relativism that is also widespread among those in the same social strata.

This is what Bill Nye is going on about: we have a nation full of knee - jerk reactionaries quick to dismiss what they don't even posess a high - school level understanding of, simply because it doesn't fit perfectly with the mindlessly repeated dogma they've been indoctrinated with since birth.

Wow... you know next to nothing about her, but your knee - jerk reaction is to compare here to Palin b / c all conservative women MUST adhere to your laughable caricature of them.

John, I'm sorry, but writing a post in your blog about yet another example of why you feel a certain way about a certain topic is NOT a knee - jerk reaction!

I don't believe we can scare people into loving God or that an uninformed, frantic, fearful knee - jerk prayer to avoid damnation is what this is all about.

Also, Id prefer if people stopped talking like the season is down the swanny when we are still in three comps, wait till after the next three fixtures but if we end up right back in it I would like the swanny talkers to come in here and say ok I've been a knee jerk drama queen before telling us how our world is about to be destroyed.

it was a joke about knee - jerk reactions... on a combative scale of 1 - 10 I think that was about a 1.5.

If knee - jerking was a competitive sport this site would be world class no doubt about it.

I think Wenger knee - jerked last year into buying Welbeck... maybe could have forgot about signing a forward until this year and saved 16M.

Everything about the rollout of standing starts felt knee - jerk and not very thought out.

Calling fans who with - hold their judgement and not make knee jerk reactions fools is all we need to know about that idiot.

Now as much as that may have been too hasty a verdict and too much of a knee jerk reaction to a few below par games, it is also too son to say that the real Mesut Ozil is back and that the German international is about to set the world on fire.

In two decades I've learned not to be so knee jerk and definitive about football.

@strontium Since I always try to default to F1 and FIA people being pretty smart and pretty professional, once you remove all the negative armchair fan rhetoric that is, I would suggest that the reason the fins are just reduced and the t bars are gone but for a much smaller lower gearbox wing according to Lowe, is that going by what Brawn has talked about they don't want to make knee - jerk decisions that will only continue to help the bigger teams who have the resources to adapt more quickly, and harm the lesser teams that can not.

One thing that disappointed me about the knee - jerk reactions was the negativity aimed at our new recruit, Jordan Hugill.

Make a commitment to pausing and thinking about how you want to respond to your child, rather than falling back on the old knee - jerk reaction.

I talked about how we don't want to overuse «no» in my last post because I don't want it to become a knee - jerk response when I'm feeling frustrated or angry.

Acknowledge the incidence wherever he was at his next speaking engagement since he was not in the country but still had to show leadership Instead, our president's Twitter account handlers begun a knee - jerk reaction by tweeting on social media about the incidence and in such an infantile and useless manner, this was done on three occasions which demonstrates a lack of clear thought to convey one simple message.

Speaking to 3 FM about the need for broad consultations before political parties put their manifestos together, the Executive Director of ACEP Dr Amin Adams said three reasons for which Ghanaians want this is the need for reliable power supply, affordable power, and a proactive power policy that is not reactive and knee - jerk.

If you want to reduce gun violence then let's talk about effective ways to do that not implementing knee jerk actions like the unSAFE act.

Just want to be clear about the knee - jerk «both parties are the same» argument that will no be doubt be used.

It won't be easy to arrange, but I urge MPs, police and courts to try to think beyond knee jerk calls for punishment, and see how many of the rioters can be brought to meet their victims to hear about the damage they and the others have caused.

Another reason, at least for some of us who think about these things instead of reacting with knee - jerk partisanship, is that it does nothing to address the underlying problems.

The knee - jerk response from Cameron is about trade union donors, of course.

Even if we don't all switch to Bug Burgers, Gracer and his insects are helping to change our habit of making knee - jerk decisions about what we should and shouldn't be eating.

But after seeing those neurochemical surges in her animals, she wondered about those last few seconds, hypothesizing that even experiences seeming to stretch for days in a person's memory could originate from a brief «knee - jerk reaction» of the dying brain.

While this study shouldn't lead anyone to knee - jerk stop using proton pump inhibitors, people who use them regularly should talk with their doctor about whether they really need them, Grams and DeVault said.

Being mindful is the simple act of being more aware of your knee - jerk reactions, thoughts, and feelings about your body.

Your knee - jerk reaction might be to start talking about how awful it is.

Your knee - jerk response to this photo and then the more thought provoking questions can tell much about your personality and thought patterns.

Supetube, I think what I've discovered about Mann's films (and PE was the first in which I was hyperaware before I entered the theater so it helped in digesting the film) is that my knee - jerk reaction is to see them as technically accomplished but strangely hollow.

Recently we've seen a lot of buzz over the... proportions of the Sorceress character in Dragon's Crown, some varying opinions about gigalo missions in Killer Is Dead, and even knee - jerk reactions to Square - Enix's decision to increase the bust size of Lightning in their new Final Fantasy effort.

The only way forward is to abandon cynicism at the door: that's what the director Stephen Chbosky has done, in movie - izing this story about physical deformity and the playground as a last refuge for knee - jerk cruelty.

Instead, she gives Danny this moment to be terrified about both being forced out of the closet and possibly losing a great friend — and in turn, gives Lady Bird a moment to reconsider her knee - jerk anger.

In fact, he only ever referred to him as «our president,» in glancing references that would be difficult for even the most defensive Trump supporter to turn into a knee - jerk tweet about liberal Hollywood and its hatred of the current administration.

How about you put aside your white, liberal guilt and realize that not be such a knee - jerk, cartoonish anti-Western, anti-American stooge.

Or was this simply the knee - jerk votes of LA fan boys who long ago demonstrated they are far from objective about their favorite player?

That doesn't mean students care any less about their opinions, but it does help them avoid knee - jerk reactions.»

Those groups are typically written about in superficial, knee - jerk ways (their stories often shoe - horned into predictable political narratives), so there's an opening to write about them with nuance and complexity.