Sentences with phrase «as nosy»

Perhaps «wild - type» (Red Junglefowl) versions of this gene also help hybrids build brains that can respond to dangers of the wild, such as nosy biologists» traps.

Please do keep us informed of your progress, you know we are just as nosy to know whats going on behind the cook in you too.

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Inquisitiveness may connote a negative label such as being nosy, interfering or troublesome.

I catch glimpses of them everywhere, curious (or nosy) as I am.

I might print this out and put it in my wallet to pass off as a photo of my kids whenever a nosy stranger asks who's watching my babies or if I'm still breastfeeding.

There are some «baby comfort» features built in as well: a reclining seat with multiple positions, soft sleeve covers for the 5 - point harness, and an adjustable canopy to keep out the sun, rain, and nosy strangers.

Because spectators are curious and sometimes downright nosy, simply living life as a little person can be hard, and social stigmas don't help.

Adam Fleming took the Daily Politics «mood box» to test the views of the public as they were asked to vote on the issue of how nosy they want to be into the financial affairs of MPs.

Please share below, as I'm a nosy Nelly (aka mum's dog, who follows me into the loo, sticks her nose in my handbag / shoe / pocket / book and goes nuts if I'm closer than 2 metres to the front door)!

I'm in agreement with everyone else, as regards your dating life (you've seen my picture, I've got a big nose so I'm alright with being nosy).

Meanwhile, Emmanuel, by way of apology, sends a bouquet to Catherine, which is misinterpreted by the couple's nosy neighbors, Antoine (Maurice Bénichou) and Alice (Hélène Lapiower), as a romantic gesture.

And as a lightly nostalgic ode to a particular place and time, Robespierre and co-writer Elisabeth Holm's film can be subtly wonderful, particularly in its quintessential New York City moments involving odd and nosy background characters.

As a doctor raddled with guilt and self - loathing regarding her unknowing part in an unexplained local death, rising star Adèle Haenel continues her streak of excellent performances, with a rigorous demeanour to her growing obsession that brings to mind certain Hitchcock leads, specifically James Stewart's pair of overly nosy protagonists in Rear Window and Vertigo.

Most scenes have little in terms of pushing forward a story, merely existing to show us how a couple of dumb stoners make asses of themselves, including accidentally imbibing urine, urinating on their nosy neighbor, and sing songs that are as seemingly ad - libbed as every other aspect of the movie.

And, as we've seen, the abbies are getting pretty nosy about what's on the other side of the wall.

Carmen Maura (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Law of Desire) stars as real estate agent Julia, out to sell a cozy apartment in a strange building filled with nosy neighbors.

«Pitfall» stars Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt as Mrs. Forbes and Raymond Burr as MacDonald, a nosy, lecherous ex-cop.

Based on Alicia Erian's novel Towelhead, Nothing is Private follows an Arab - American teenager (Summer Bishil's Jasira) as she encounters a number of quirky characters - including a racist reservist (Aaron Eckhart) and a nosy neighbor (Toni Collette)- after moving to an affluent Texas neighborhood.

Henry's fears, nosy neighbors and Adele's small town bank present obstacles, but as we all know, true love must inevitably find a wayâ $» and these fetching performances make us root for it!

We open in medias res, as a terminally ill Grahame moves in to the modest row house Peter shares with his kind - hearted mom, Bella (Julie Walters), salt - of - the - earth dad, Joe (Kenneth Cranham), and nosy brother, Joe Jr. (Stephen Graham).

A particularly hilarious scene - stealer is Christopher Meloni, as Pascal, Minnie's mom's uptight psychologist ex-boyfriend who continues to insist upon being a father figure to Minnie and her nosy sister Gretel (Abby Wait).

As they begin to dig deeper into the events, the more they begin to suspect something far more sinister at play, as they uncover a large - scale covert drug smuggling operation, run by powerful people that will do anything to keep their money rolling in, including taking out a couple of nosy copAs they begin to dig deeper into the events, the more they begin to suspect something far more sinister at play, as they uncover a large - scale covert drug smuggling operation, run by powerful people that will do anything to keep their money rolling in, including taking out a couple of nosy copas they uncover a large - scale covert drug smuggling operation, run by powerful people that will do anything to keep their money rolling in, including taking out a couple of nosy cops.

Every other character — Li - zhen's philandering boss, Chow's happy - go - lucky friend, the nosy landlady («Young wives shouldn't stay out so late — people will start to wonder»)-- is a satellite, and the husband and wife go almost unseen, their offscreen voices used as rhythmic punctuations in a movie that feels less like a narrative than a beautifully drawn - out musical improvisation — Wong Kar - wai's «Blue in Green.»

Ask children to bring in something for Nosy Nick to smell such as pine needles in a plastic zip - lock bag or cinnamon placed in a glass jar.

Kate Wilson of the progressive children's publisher Nosy Crow is crying fowl, as it were.

The first Children's Book Fair held in Shanghai saw attendance of publishers such as Publishers Association, Hachette Children's Books, HarperCollins, Nosy Crow, Top That!

In short order, Leverkuhn's nosy neighbor joins the ranks of the absent as well, at least until bagged pieces of her body begin to show up in the city park.

After emigrating from Bangladesh to New York at age 11, he, as a high - school senior, spends his days cutting class and moving through the streets of Queens, hoping to avoid the watchful eyes of his father, stepmother, and half brother; his hordes of nosy neighbors; and especially the police and cameras that cover his Muslim neighborhood.

It's worth noting that reports of Nosy Crow's new partnership with the National Trust for a range of important new releases — announced by Kate Wilson and Katie Bond at The Bookseller's conference, and covered by our Charlotte Eyre — is a major list of traditionally produced works, not (at least as described in coverage) new titles in Nosy Crow's trademark app division.

What follows is a frolicking good time as Stormi finds herself the nosiest neighbor of them all.

He was Technical Production Manager for Penguin and Dorling Kindersley for several years and has since advised publishers such as Parragon, Nosy Crow, Walker Books and Quarto on how to get the best from their print workflow.

British publishers, including established brands like Penguin and Faber & Faber, as well as start - ups like Touch Press and Nosy Crow, have produced notable commercial and critical successes in an area fraught with difficulties.

Titles available to buy as audiobooks include My Brother is a Superhero by David Solomons, winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the British Book Industry Awards Children's Book of the Year prize, The Spy Who Loved School Dinners by Pamela Butchart, winner of the Blue Peter Book Award, and The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Wiliams, the first title in a new series of Nosy Crow classics.

Some dogs may find the taste of the plant appealing, but although they may find some interest in the herb at first (because lets face it, dogs are nosy critters) that soon will subside as their curiosity diminishes.

But now it looks like we might have some good evidence as to what first expansion pack will contain, all thanks to those nosy buggers over at the Bethesda forums.

With our raft in pieces at the bottom of what, in all honestly, looks to be no more than a pond, we bump into the island's caretaker Passel, a sinister man who advises us «Nosy Rogues» to get swimming as there are no rafts to be found around here!

Cobain, a longtime artist when she's not busy serving as a muse for the likes of Marc Jacobs, has previously exhibited her work under a pseudonym (and was once outed by a nosy Huffington Post reporter), but has since decided to use her own (very, very famous) name so she can «better take control of the narrative,» according to a quote from gallerist Matt Kennedy to artnet News.

And therefore it requires different tactics from that of the ordinary Ponzi scheme, such as offering returns only moderately above average, satisfying redemption requests promptly, turning down some would - be investors (it would be interesting to know whether there was a tendency to turn down investors who might prove nosy or suspicious), and trading on a reputation earned in a legitimate business (Madoff's business of market making).

It's not the same as BMBLNGS, pronounced «bumblings» — Bad Management By Looking Nosy, Glaring, and Snooping.)

I might tell the neighbour — if I knew they weren't just being nosy, but equally as important: if it sold for under market value due to factors that aren't typically or properly articulated in the text overview, or might not be apparent in the photos, I wouldn't want the neighbour to draw the wrong conclusions about where the market was going and start spreading the false word around.

As to nosy neighbours, the ideal situation as to explaining that to a seller, would be that the nosy neighbour might, in reality, have a good friend or business colleague the neighbour would enjoy as a new owner of your housAs to nosy neighbours, the ideal situation as to explaining that to a seller, would be that the nosy neighbour might, in reality, have a good friend or business colleague the neighbour would enjoy as a new owner of your housas to explaining that to a seller, would be that the nosy neighbour might, in reality, have a good friend or business colleague the neighbour would enjoy as a new owner of your housas a new owner of your house.

Agents get frustrated with what they refer to as «nosy - neighbour» calls.

Neighbours always want generic information, sometimes just to be nosy, but think of those nosy - neighbour contacts as future clients.

I love the roof... I always want to knock on the door of houses such as this one and ask for a private tour... too nosy or just too much imagination... probably a bit of both.

I have a whole bunch of nosy questions (such as did you have to drill a septic septic, how large was the space, Were there two rooms and a bathroom?).