Sentences with phrase «against a brick wall»

Yup, I know that feeling of hitting your head against a brick wall trying to make it a lifestyle change.

When emergencies come up, we sometimes feel as though we've been thrown against a brick wall, particularly if we experience loss of any kind.

However, if you have likely tried a straightforward approach to holding a conversation, you might have felt like you were up against a brick wall.

Those who do repeat might as well beat their heads against brick walls until the pain stops.

Set against a brick wall and next to a rustic wall clock, their colour is particularly striking.

Notice though that had this sofa been photographed against the brick wall it would have been way too busy, instead the back of the sofa has some kind of art against it.

But don't bang your head against a brick wall.

I bumped my head against the brick wall of agent / editor / publishing house acceptance for almost twenty years before self - publishing... and I came very, very close.

«Persistence is not about hitting your head against a brick wall when there is no chance of breaking through,» Martin writes.

I believe we are doing most things correctly at school and have had extensive PL in the area, however we are banging our heads against a brick wall as nothing is reinforced at home and parents are completely in denial (although demanding that school needs to do all the right things).

So Arsene Wenger could well have found himself banging his head against a brick wall in his transfer pursuit of their player.

I would not criticise the admission of a mistake in the market if it was dealt with quickly, rather than watching the hierarchy banging their head against a brick wall for years with players that clearly aren't good enough to achieve the club's supposed objectives.

At first I tried to push in my wonderful rocking chair, but I quickly discovered it was like pushing against a brick wall.

Tessa Munt told Good Morning Britain there was «no point in bashing your head against a brick wall if something is not working» and that the Government needed to change direction in order to get people into the right housing.

The man, smoking a cigarette and leaning against a brick wall just outside the entrance to Schwartz's building, waves and indicates with a hand gesture, pointing inside, that he'll talk in the group session.

It is obvious that your husband is only seeing future dollar signs and in a situation like that you will be banging your head against a brick wall trying to get him to change.

Not really... I guess that I'm just tired tonight... and lazy... and put off by beating my head against brick walls refuting misconceptions and fallacies, so I passed it off onto the researcher writers.

I expect two games of playing against a brick wall and I hope it won't have the same consquences as the Stoke game.

I just think it was battering against a brick wall.»

So please go read that because I've written about the topic so fucking much that any time it's brought up the urge to smash my head against a brick wall intensifies.

«Oh yeah, you had this great shot in a green tiered dress against a brick wall.

Third, the forces manipulating him have such seemingly unlimited power that each and every attempt he makes to fight back ends up sounding and looking like an argument against a brick wall (He's neither good at the assignment nor a quick learner).

He took a bite of the sandwich and hustled outside just as the sixth story windows blew and an orange explosion knocked him back against the brick wall of the diner.

«Untitled» (1969), three of the boys in the hoods are shown against a brick wall beneath a cloud - filled sky.

I also thought that most of the images of painting are trafficked through the web, and the first thing you lose is scale unless you're photographing your painting against a brick wall.

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It's fairly lightweight so for now, it's just leaning against the brick wall on our patio (although you could put hanging hardware on the back — or drill holes and hang it with a rope.)

Regardless of whether you live rurally or in the city, sometimes it can feel as though you're coming up against a brick wall when trying to meet like - minded singles.

Once he turned the corner, Nava reports that he was grabbed by someone else and thrown against a brick wall.

It is a sign of almost the opposite: modern voters coming up against the brick wall of First Past the Post.

Speaking in Harlow, where Labour took control of the council in last week's local election, Miliband said: «The reality now for people aspiring to get on is that they feel they are running up against a brick wall in terms of unemployment and getting on the housing ladder.»

Cristiano Ronaldo has banged his head against the brick wall for four years; now the brick wall has given way.

But she appears to be up against a brick wall.»

Basically — no matter how rationally we argue for NP, we'll still be banging our heads against a brick wall until there is a more profound and widespread recognition of the unacceptability of the serious alternatives (principally coal).

He was stuck in limbo and I felt like I was pushing against a brick wall.

You might be banging your head against a brick wall if your employer doesn't offer short - term disability.

I do feel like a fan banging his head against a brick wall when Wenger allows his favoritism to get the best of him.

«All of us had been national, progressive advocates, leading organizations that needed urgently to solve big problems, and we found ourselves banging our heads against a brick wall.

Stuff I'm Reading this Morning... William Ackman may finally be done bashing his pretty head against the brick wall that is Target.

William Ackman may finally be done bashing his pretty head against the brick wall that is Target.

But when you try to figure out where these profits originated, you'll come up against a brick wall.

Nava told the Princeton police that while he was walking to the home of a boy he regularly mentors, he was grabbed by two men who held him against a brick wall, punched him, and repeatedly hit his head against the bricks.

I feel like I'm butting my head against a brick wall when I say anything like this.

Seeing that «the minister is the only one ministering,» or that the minister is «continually bumping his head against a brick wall,» generates stress, at the very least, and at times gives rise to cynicism.

@Sigh: attempting to make rational arguments gets tedious when it amounts to beating your head against a brick wall — it tends to make people irritated and impolite.

Three years later a meeting ended with a division on a question loaded the other way: «Shall we run our heads against brick walls?»