Sentences with phrase «argumentative people»

You'll need to manage these personalities to keep the hospital running smoothly - two argumentative people, for instance, will create friction when they clash.

If you are known to be argumentative people may not be willing to tell you.

There have been times when I have allowed my intellectual objections to some of the tenants of conservative evangelical Christianity turn me into a bitter, argumentative person, eager to play the devil's advocate at every opportunity.

I am easy to get along with and am not an argumentative person.

Not exact matches

«The old guideline is that you should never talk about sex or politics in business, because people get very argumentative about it.

It can also make you look argumentative and defensive, which will make people nervous about interacting with you.

and as karen anderson opined makes people act stupid and argumentative

What We Can't Not Know provides young people with the argumentative ammunition they need to resist that juggernaut.

My experience is that most people who use WOTM seem very proud, arrogant, argumentative, and judgmental.

I am not argumentative nor do I challenge people's beliefs in my daily life, but if you enter an atheist site, you will be expected to defend yourself and the objectiveness of many atheists can be seemingly harsh.

and is good enough for me... have made almost every recipe in the book with it and have never had a problem... i don't mean to be argumentative at all but i have been baking with it for years so i am not sure why people say it will not work...

I want to say how many erudite and intelligent people have posted on this thread at least so far (it being 4.32 right now) We are all entitled to disagreed and in my own irritating (I admit), argumentative but passionate style I have done so with one caring fan..

During a visit to Buffalo, GOP gubernatorial candidate Marc Molinaro labeled Cuomo «corrupt,» «corrosive,» «loud,» argumentative,» and committed to «putting the personal politics of ambition and greed above the people,» and said there's more commentary where that came from.

It was true in very different types of relationships, including those in which the people were very independent and even distant or argumentative.

Controlling people usually tend to be endemically argumentative and will use disagreements to chip away at your resolve.

After all, aren't most people looking for someone who isn't argumentative or rude?

Students are then told they will be participating in a performance task in which they will read about the debate over the Internet's effects on young people's reading and write an argumentative essay taking a stand on the issue.

The scenario set up in the performance task creates an authentic need to know more about young people's use of the Internet, their reading habits, and the pros and cons of the issue — not to mention how to write an effective argumentative essay.

For my Modern World History class, I adapted an argumentative writing task about climate change to ask students «How is climate change affecting people around the world?».

An argumentative essay is written with the aim of persuading a person or people to change their stand or views.

Finally, BookPage covers a lot of books for people interested in true crime, such as Deborah Blum's The Poisoner's Handbook, «a lushly detailed account of how the discipline and profession of forensic science emerged from the «poison playground» of 1920s New York to become an indispensable argumentative tool in the modern - day crime - fighter's arsenal.»

Many of the argumentative topics are controversial, with people being willing to fight fiercely to defend their way of thinking.

You can write argumentative essay about anything you want because despite of the topic choice you will always find two people who have opposite opinions on the issue.

New research, detailed last week in the journal Anthrozoos, finds that people with argumentative personalities are more likely to choose bull terriers and other aggressive dogs than their agreeable counterparts.

Thus, most people freely admit that they are sometimes disagreeable, argumentative, and prone to physical violence.

Now I like this project and do not want to be an argumentative curmudgeon but really, lots of people have achieved this level of efficiency in renovations.

We also know that adapting a message to a person's personality — whether they are open, introverted, argumentative, and so on — goes a long way to help getting that message across.

For mediators, lawyers, therapists, supervisors and anyone else in a negotiation or argumentative situation - this video explains a simple, innovative technique to shift a high - conflict or upset person from complaining and nitpicking to problem solving.

Psychologists have used the term Passive - Aggressive Personality Disorder (PAPD) as a label to characterize people who are chronically stubborn, pouty, sulky, irritable, procrastinating, and argumentative.1 More recently, PAPD was renamed Negativistic Personality Disorder to include other negative behaviors, such as complaining about being misunderstood, envy of others, and exaggerated complaints of personal misfortune.2 Both terms have been controversial; some psychologists believe that many of the symptoms only occur in certain situations (or certain relationships) and do not reflect an underlying pervasive personality trait that the person carries with them across relationships.3

A person demonstrating passive aggression may be argumentative or extremely critical of authority, complain of being underappreciated or misunderstood, or passively resist assigned tasks by procrastinating or «forgetting.»

Researchers studying narcissism and relationship commitments cite previous research that people with an inflated sense of self - worth are more argumentative, hostile, selfishness, and self - centered.

But he was argumentative, childish, vulgar and his family said he «was not the same person».

Not trying to be argumentative, but I have this conversation pretty frequently and I find most people don't really understand how tech financing really works.

Applying ordinary reason, one should be able to appreciate that a rational person would not make recommendations prior to analyzing a situation — to suggest otherwise is to be argumentative.

These are classic bottom - line oriented people, often argumentative and impatient, intimidating others to get their own way.