Sentences with phrase «acting disinterested»

Whether its issuing a challenge or acting disinterested, using reverse psychology in dating can help you nudge a person into doing what you want.

Valence has already modified a Prius... Marc Kohler, business development manager for Valence's vehicle systems program, says the major automakers appear to be acting disinterested, but it's not the full picture... «Publicly they have to say one thing, but R&D guys are actively researching it,» says Kohler, pointing out that high oil prices, national security issues, the fact that the technology is available, and the slow progress of fuel - cell cars has created an ideal environment for pursuing plug - in hybrids.

Jensen says many doctors cripple their chances of leveraging the placebo effect by acting disinterested or lacking confidence with patients.

On Tuesday she might turn up her nose and act disinterested in the bananas.

Limit your training sessions to five or six repetitions, and stop the training session if your cat acts disinterested or frustrated.

Hold the bone at first and let the dog sniff it if he acts disinterested smear a little something tasty like goat cheese on the bone.

I may act disinterested — I may even blatantly slip back in my earphones and turn up the volume — but for the sake of my well - being, ignore these actions and save me from whatever Jennifer Aniston vehicle or Ben Stiller sequel I am likely to stumble across.

If you don't pay attention to them or act disinterested, they will just steer clear of your way.

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Now, in the further interest of National Security» or, in the Fast and Furious matter, for reasons that remain unjustified and murky» it pleases some on the secularist left (even those who once fiercely opposed the very «Patriot Act» that seems almost tame by comparison) to cultivate a quiet disinterest as the government accrues ever more power, without so much as a «do what, now?»

Reinhold agrees that America's concern about Japanese aggression is not completely disinterested, but, he disagrees with H. Richard's claim that it is better not to act at all than to act from motives that are not wholly free from all self - interest.

20This is not, however, to say that all interest is «biased» or «ideological» in the sense that it expresses, in Ogden's words, «a more or less comprehensive understanding of human existence, or how to exist and act as a human being, that functions to justify the interests of a particular group or individual by representing these interests as the demands of disinterested justice» (The Point of Christology [San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1982], p. 94).

The third principle may be stated as follows: Every morally developed person ought always to act as he inescapably sees he ought to act on full disinterested consideration of all available knowledge and experience which appear to him to be relevant.

The free market, he argued, permits a beneficial moral modesty that trusts people acting in pursuit of their own self - interest far more than it trusts avowals of disinterested benevolence or claims to morally superior rights.

These cues include eye rubbing, yawning, and acting distracted or disinterested (among others).

Jason talks more like you, but the way Ike acts and his complete disinterest in people and his gleeful willingness to just be alone, that is so troublingly you.»

It is scenes like these that give The Tale of the Princess Kaguya its everflowing momentum, even as it flirts with a bout of disinterest in its elongated second act.

In the opening act, Jor - El (a disinterested Marlon Brando) banishes three criminals — General Zod (Terence Stamp), Ursa (Sarah Douglas) and Non (Jack O'Halloran)-- from the planet Krypton and the trio predictably swear revenge on Jor - El and his heirs.

Seems the proper attitude is to feign disinterest and act annoyed about any leaks about The Dark Knights Rises.

Difficult yes — but when some are bridge burning while calling it building, disinterest is an act of generosity.

They must show that Dr. Brown (the client) entered into the transaction, not through the operation of any acts on the part of Holmes (the fiduciary), but «after full and sufficient deliberation, and with all the information which it was material for him to have in order to guide his conduct; and that he had either independent and disinterested advice, or as ample protection as such advice could have given him.