Sentences with phrase «as dysfunctional»

On the surface they look like the perfect American family, but under those 19 layers of winter clothes, they're just as dysfunctional as the rest of us.

Do you think that's realistic - that two children with such as dysfunctional family life would grow up OK?

The three - cluster solution that was selected gives us one pattern that we might describe as dysfunctional, in that it presents higher scores for emotional attention, but lower scores for repair.

Both films are hard to endure yet impossible to shake, just as dysfunctional relationships often are.

Everybody likes technology in principle, so that is the term applied to make bad situations appear as something inevitable and inherent in progress, not as a dysfunctional social change.

The schools seemed as dysfunctional at the end as they had appeared at the beginning.

This elemental imbalance in the body will show up as a dysfunctional expression like lethargy, obesity, hypertension and other conditions.

Results of our study show that internet trolls may troll as a dysfunctional impulse, and cost - free dating apps may offer the perfect opportunity to do it.

Less interesting as a boxing movie and more so as a dysfunctional family drama.

After all, it is quite possible for a voter to value their own representative's service within a larger body they regard as dysfunctional.

Second, the factor structure analysis pointed out that emotion expression is considered by upper elementary students as dysfunctional while this strategy appears among the functional strategies within the theoretical model.

Following on from yesterday's images the first trailer has arrived online for Michael Dougherty's festive comedy horror Krampus and you can check it out below after the official synopsis... SEE ALSO: Comic - Con poster for Krampus The horror - comedy tells the story of young Max, who turns his back on Christmas as his dysfunctional family comes together -LSB-...]

The strategy of Rep. Elise Stefanik — the youngest women ever elected to Congress — for dealing with what many voters view as a dysfunctional government is to focus on less - controversial areas where she can deliver wins for her district.

Expressing concern over the widespread perception of state government as dysfunctional.

With showy roles as the dysfunctional heads of a family, they should have plenty of meat to craft a great performance out of.

MCAS is a shameful as well as dysfunctional agency.

Dysfunctional breathing, also known as dysfunctional breathlessness, may accompany and worsen symptoms of asthma, COPD and other conditions, but it can also stand alone.

Based on a true story, the film sports Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell as the dysfunctional team who must get their act together to succeed.

Sounds almost as dysfunctional as the Oilers head office: You can not question us as we have changed coaches and GM's so many times it would be detrimental to change again... no matter how useless the current management and coaching has proven to be....

The content of Ms. Khar's speech was quite broad and overarching wherein she not only covered her own domain of Pakistani foreign policy but also set out what she believed were the positive indicators of a state which is often characterised as dysfunctional.

Experiences in our past such as dysfunctional family dynamics, being bullied in school, and other forms of abuse and trauma become subconscious false beliefs about ourselves such as; «I am not worthy of love, or I'm not good enough.»

I really wonder how a organization that wields the power to tell us what is deviant or not deals with the internal struggles that even in a family would be classified as dysfunctional at best.

If Farmer is intentionally bringing in guys that can't beat the guy he drafted cuz he's afraid Pet may start someone over the player he drafted, then this organization is every bit as dysfunctional as the media would have you believe and Farmer should be fired faster than Haslam can say it.

If it were, «marginalization» would not float in the air, as some dysfunctional national anthem, throated by denizens of a dysfunctional nation.

He has served in turbulent times, and oversees a government that is seen by most New Yorkers as dysfunctional.

The New York City Board of Elections has widely been acknowledged as a dysfunctional agency in need of urgent and sweeping reform, yet the political will for modernizing and professionalizing the board has not existed, at least in part because its current structure benefits those in power.

Few in the public or private sector support a return to the old decentralized Board of Education, an institution viewed by many as dysfunctional.

Nevergold also said that the entire board is depicted as dysfunctional but said it's actually Paladino who is dysfunctional and isn't committed or concerned about the kids.

It's not half as dysfunctional as Brussels, I'll tell you that.»

But even before Mr. Akpabey's petition is given audience by the president, an investigative journalism conducted by Joy FM, the media organization that first broke the scandal, has revealed that the software which was initiated tagged by the current management as dysfunctional, is in good shape and working efficiently.

Rep. John Katko (R - Camillus) has only been in Congress for a year, but says he's seen a lot of changes in what many Americans view as a dysfunctional arm of government.

If Cuomo has national ambitions, they won't likely be hurt by distancing himself from what is seen by the public as a dysfunctional and corrupt body.

His lieutenants, however, sounded exasperated, dismissing the Capitol as dysfunctional and suggesting Mr. de Blasio had been brave to attempt reforms in a topsy - turvy year.

Eventually Espada and Monserrate rejoined the Democratic conference but the damage had been done - rifts in the Senate Democrats were made public, and they were painted as dysfunctional during their first shot at the majority in decades.

He cut also cut deals with Cuomo and Silver on a number of incremental reform packages that included the formation of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, an agency regarded almost universally as dysfunctional and impotent.

Nevergold also took exception to the entire board being cast as dysfunctional when «we have a dysfunctional member.»

Optimal intestinal health is critical to optimum health, as dysfunctional digestive issues can crop up subclinically and wreak havoc on the body as a sign prior to clinical onset of many chronic diseases.

Spotting or irregular bleeding (known as Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding) causes a lot of distress for women because they feel this isn't normal and they worry about what it means for the current state of their hormonal health and future fertility.

In the late Dennis Hopper's mind a better film than Bertolucci's Luna and his own Easy Rider, the actor - director's brilliant, still shockingly subversive 1980 cherry bomb is as sad and unsettling as dysfunctional - family dramas come.

And Leslie Mann and Harvey Keitel are completely over-the-top and unbelieveable as a dysfunctional love interest and her father.

Surprise: Gaby Hoffman, «Transparent» Supporting Actress - Comedy The actress scored two nominations, for her guest role on HBO's «Girls» as the sister of Adam Driver's character as well as her role as the dysfunctional youngest daughter of transgender professor Maura Pfefferman

For a film based upon a dysfunctional family's struggle across America to enter their daughter into a beauty pageant — Little Miss Sunshine should go down in history as a

After four movies together, it's easy to believe Hemsworth and Hiddleston's chemistry as dysfunctional brothers.

Most of the first hour of «Mascots» is simply these «interviews» — and, sadly, most of it is not very funny, as these dysfunctional characters, played by the likes of Parker Posey, Tom Bennett, Chris O'Dowd, Zach Woods and Sarah Baker, are annoying, dull or both.

Streep is a ticking time bomb as the dysfunctional mom that heads a large family gathering.

Neither Reilly nor Tomei have ever seemed so effortlessly funny, and whoever thought to cast one of Judd Apatow's regulars as a dysfunctional, disturbed manchild should be dubbed a genius.