Sentences with phrase «as the elephants in»

It's unclear whether vendors view changes in buying behavior as the elephant in the room (not to be discussed) or are aware of the shift but have concluded nothing can be done.

the movie is broad, brassy, often overdramatic and about as subtle as an elephant in harem pants.

If that central issue of the picture lies fallow until an ill - fated recital (set up by ill - used, slapstick laughing - stock Christian cellist Graham Claydon (Tom Hollander)-RRB- ends with a few wild swings of a nail - studded bat, at least it's introduced as an elephant in a room full of people in that darkened theatre clucking at how adorable and somehow inspirational it is that a hobo is a world - class cellist.

The latter might be purely perfunctory, and fitted in as gracefully as an elephant in a tutu, but Guardians now feels as though it is taking its place as the rightful centre of the Marvel Cosmic Universe.

But BECCS is also described as an elephant in the climate mitigation room, criticized both as a false and unproven solution to reduce emissions and for the risks it poses to ecosystems, indigenous peoples and local communities through the potential for land grabbing and human rights abuses.

The US comes off looking like a clown, which it is not — but rather as an elephant in a very expensive, high end jewellery shop and / or rats in sewers (both analogies do not do justice to either elephants or rats as Dr. Hunter S. Thopmson of Gonzo fame might quip — it is worse than that).

The truth is: 2017 was an encouraging year for housing, but to quote our basketball friends, it's not a slam dunk going into 2018, especially with tax reform as the elephant in the room.

Not exact matches

Or as Steven S. Hoffman asserts in his new book, you have to «Make Elephants Fly,» and that requires getting outside of conventional thinking.

At this year's Tribeca Film Festival, audiences can walk alongside the rangers protecting elephants in Africa, see what it's like to be a tree, ride in an automated taxi transporting passengers, or follow a Holocaust survivor's steps as he visits the concentration camp he was held in for the last time.

Plus there's the «$ 100 - million elephant in the room,» as Don Iveson, one of three city councillors to oppose the deal, calls a lingering gap in funding.

Besides inflating the largest real estate bubble in world history, this massive infusion of debt also financed many white elephant projects, such as useless infrastructure and excess steel, automobile, and cement factories.

Even before The New York Times reported that the White House was considering running Sessions as a write - in candidate, it would've been pretty hard to avoid the elephant in the room: the accusations of sexual misconduct swirling around the race to fill Sessions's old seat.

«The problem we have is, we have a president who will use that as fodder to do his mission,» said New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, describing Trump's provocations about kneeling players as «the elephant in the room.»

As readers might know, our particular interest is in the silver space, and that is where we see an elephant in the room that hasn't made headlines yet.

Interpol's research focused on the trade of rhinoceros, elephants, and tigers, as all international trade in those endangered species is prohibited.

When you merge your money as newlyweds, debt can become the elephant in the room.

And he's relying on friends from both camps in preparing for Sunday, when Gross will use the Super Bowl as a way to get churches around the country talking about pornography, a subject he calls «the elephant in the pew.»

The 53 - year - old has worked among elephants, lions and rhinos on several game reserves in the Kwazulu - Natal Province as a safari rest camp supervisor.

Chinese Christians also see in Bonhoeffer a man who dared wage war as an ant on an elephant.

Some atheists definitely cross that line, and then it becomes another faith - based belief since you can't prove the negative, that there definitely isn't a God, just as you couldn't prove definitely that there isn't an invisible, intangible elephant in your garden.

Someone in the Christian meditation group I go to sees the elephant god as an an expression of God.

Jackson faces the elephants in the room of whites and blacks having deep, meaningful relationships very quickly, especially in book two when one of the White main character's husband, Denny, is mistaken by, MaDea, an aging African American woman who is suffering from dementia, as one of the men who brutally lynched her brother nearly 70 years ago.

Doing so would be like me telling you about a purple - polka - dotted elephant appearing in the sky as a way to prove to you that I had French Toast and coffee for breakfast this morning.

According to J.R. Briggs, «the elephant in the room for pastors is that many of us are afraid of failure, and we don't feel as though there are safe spaces to talk openly about it.»

Victor Paul Furnish in The Moral Teaching of Paul (1979) contrasted those who treated scripture as a sacred cow and those who considered it a white elephant.

did anyone take the quiz... there is a question about what is the religion of most people in indonesia... the answer is muslim, yet... the picture that goes along with the question and answer is confused... i think i saw an elephant trunk on the idols face... maybe the folks who put together the quiz and slide show should brush up on thier religious and cultural studies as well...

In a striking example combining metaphor and humor, Koko made a joke about being a «sad elephant» because she was reduced to drinking water through a thick rubber straw as a solution to her constant nagging one morning for more drinks of juice (IULG 534).

This is in addition to the Stegosaurus and hundreds of other species, all of which, while not as large and fearsome as the above, were all larger than any elephant or other living land animal.

What the religious never understand is that it makes as much sense to believe in the giant elephant in the sky as it does that some mystical all - knowing creature is actually paying attention to all of this.

We are then very pleased, as part of the debate strongly requested by the Pope, to have stirred up discussion, as exhibited on our Letters page, concerning one particular elephant in the room: namely the Church's traditional emphasis upon the primacy of the procreative end of the marital act.

Let's turn our attention for a moment to the elephant in the living room, or should I say the «alleged» elephant, since Cardinal Dulles refers to «the alleged increase of homosexual tendencies among younger members in the Society of Jesus as well as in other religious orders and diocesan seminaries.»

So many smaller difficulties & I suspect several long term problems that have crippled & twisted us into our current deformity would be healed, if a few leaders used their platforms to address the elephant in the sanctuary, as it were.

We have learned so much about the intelligence, cognitive and social, of so many animals — humpback whales, orcas, bottlenose dolphins, elephants, gray parrots, dogs, and so on — all of it quite fascinating, thought - provoking, and in many cases delightful, and it seems a cruel impoverishment of our speculative and moral imaginations to dismiss it all as a process of biomechanical stimulus and response, only accidentally resembling the workings of human consciousness.

Because the Abyssinians used African elephants in the attack, the year of the expedition is known as the «Year of the Elephant.»

After man, dino, elephant etc. «evolved... and were standing there fully developed after billions of trial and error failures, what fired off, or put in place the electrical system to make everything work in sequence as «designed» to do?

The reduction in pesticide use and adoption of efficient waste management systems has led to an increase in bird species as well as more frequent sightings of bison, leopards, deer and elephants.

«There's huge emphasis in the grocery aisles on branded versus private label but the elephant in the room is that as fresh food grows, the pressure on shelf space in packaged groceries will continue to escalate,» Mr Conomos said.

Similar to the African Elephant Pepper Project, wildlife experts in Guwahati (North - east India) are now trying to fend off marauding elephants from destroying homes and crops with the help of hot peppers: As part of an experimental project in Assam, they erected jute fences, coated with grease and Bhut Jolokia.

I have just understood that Arsenal's majority share holder — Stan Kroenke, is launching a TV channel, in the UK, dedicated to the blood sport of hunting endangered wild animals such as lions, rhinos and elephants.

Sure he isn't as polished as Rosen I think people suffer from how rosen makes it look Sam was reading the whole field in the Utah and Colorado game At or behind the line of scrimmage is in Rosen's toolbelt as well elephant

Meyer and coordinator Steve Addazio stubbornly ran Brantley on options in 2010, then rotated him out for freshmen Trey Burton and Jordan Reed, who played quarterback as a mongoose with a trebuchet for an arm and an elephant throwing with its trunk would have.

These ranged from Trump's sons, The Donald Jr. and Eric - photographed in 2012 sawing off the tails of elephants, hanging 13 - foot crocodiles by a noose off from branches, and clinging gleefully to the carcass of a slumped leopard, to Wells Tower's searing 2014 GQ account of an elephant hunt, to more recent viral outrages, such as the woman who posed with the giraffe she shot and called it a «very dangerous animal» and Walter Palmer, the dentist recently vilified for killing Cecil, a beloved Zimbabwe lion.

Climbing into the redclay hills, the Toyota's deeply lugged tires slip - sliding as if in grease, we came upon a herd of elephants.

The days of players of such limited ability paid millions of pounds of OUR (by this I mean supporters) money are coming to an end.For this Wenger has himself to blame as his tired broken down ways have been found out.Yes of course we want our players to be loyal but the players who we have called out over the years SÁNCHEZ RVP THE BLOKE WHOOSE DAD WASHED ELEPHANTS NASRI were all Wenger signings and showed as much loyalty and gratitude to him as much as the Club.Sign the right players and put them in a winning team is the first step.Win trophies and Pay them well and then you will see Loyalty.

First, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II wrote the breakthrough Broadway musical that, starting in 1943, extolled the virtues of a state where «the corn is as high as an elephant's eye.»

Even our trackers, Mamu and Methui, who had lived all their lives with elephants, were visibly nervous as we moved closer and closer to the group in which our big tusker was.

Eventually, as we hoped, the elephants began to separate, moving in small groups away from each other.

In the days that followed we saw many elephants as we searched for one which had tusks large enough to take for a trophy.

It's probably approaching elephant - in - the - room status, at least if you've been listening to the commentary as instructed, so let's talk about it.

5) There is another elephant in the room (already filled to the brim with our pachyderm friends) and that is the tax implication facing some French, Spanish and Greek Clubs as their respective nations begin to tighten the screws on corporate tax evaders, thanks to the EU's gradual loss of patience with their poorer members failing economies.