Sentences with phrase «at inopportune moments»

Lights flicker, flashlights die at inopportune moments, floors creak and shadowy figures scuttle across the background.
The public flap over suspending the program came at an inopportune moment for Democrats, who have been fighting for much of the past year against a public perception that when it serves their political goals, they will turn against the clean - elections program.
I spend the next few weeks trying not to itch myself incessantly at inopportune moments as the regrowth emerges.
Sales teams engage with leads at inopportune moments, wasting everybody's time.
Most of his dribbles are great, but sometimes he decides to draw his man at an inopportune moment and gets turned over when we have players ahead of him.
Although he's been compared in some quarters to Xabi Alonso, Adam isn't remotely as able defensively and is too eager to push forward and press the ball at inopportune moments, leaving space in behind.
If you feel letdown happening at an inopportune moment (say, you're chatting with a co-worker about your baby and your milk starts to drip), cross your arms over your breasts and press firmly.
I was pretty happy with this method, but I would always run out and have to crack open a tin of coconut milk at inopportune moments.
Narcoleptics spontaneously fall asleep, often at inopportune moments — even while laughing at a joke, or in the middle of an angry outburst.
(A common criticism of automatic security updates — and a key reason why many people decide to turn them off — is that updating a security patch requires restarting the computer, sometimes at inopportune moments.)
It's not pure tedium, but it pales in comparison to doing fieldwork in minus - 30 degree summer weather, with 60 - mile - an - hour winds howling and expensive scientific instrumentation freezing at inopportune moments.
An accidental nudge from a coworker at an inopportune moment is all it...
His only purpose in the films is to walk in on his son at every inopportune moment.
Jennifer Garner became the new Chrissy Teigen when a confused expression crossing her face at an inopportune moment was caught on camera during the 90th Annual Academy Awards earlier this month.
Trouble is, this movie's got relationships budding at inopportune moments and within a ludicrous timespan, the Seal of Megatron, and a character completely defying the whole purpose of the movie.
The remorseless cheer of holiday music which sticks in your brain like cotton candy, causing otherwise grown - up people to hum Rudolph The Red - Nosed Reindeer at inopportune moments such as during department meetings or sexual foreplay (events that rarely occur together, even in the most progressive of neighborhoods).
These systems are really well calibrated this vehicle and I found them to provide warning without intervening at inopportune moments.
It will sometimes light up the tires at inopportune moments.
Problems with bolts holding the steering wheels to the steering column have apparently resulted in the steering wheels coming loose at inopportune moments.
The Mazda was better, but seemed more inclined to downshift at inopportune moments, while the Ford's dual - clutch unit lacked discipline, seeming to «hunt» occasionally, even when there was no change in incline or throttle input.
Maybe if you're a native speaker, you're not aware of all the echoes of the words that share a common root, but you know, it really struck me that [Arabic has] a word for «child» that relates to things like «dawn» and «soft clay» but also «one that arrives at an inopportune moment,»» she laughed.
Mormon authorities treat the fundamentalists as they would a crazy uncle — they try to keep the «polygs» hidden in the attic, safely out of sight, but the fundamentalists always seem to be sneaking out to appear in public at inopportune moments to create unsavory scenes, embarrassing the entire LDS clan.
For disappearing at an inopportune moment and making the owner cancel their appointment, or arrive late and flustered?
Females can be tricky to compete as they may lose valuable competition and training time by coming into season or being tied up with pregnancy or lactation at inopportune moments.
There were times when I would actually miss landing a jump due to the game engine chugging at an inopportune moment.
You don't want anything crawling out of your toilet at an inopportune moment -LRB-... and no, there is never an opportune moment for anything to be crawling out of your toilet).
Amazon's Alexa platform appears to have a glitch of some sort that is causing it to laugh at inopportune moments, with reports cropping up all over the internet from both the media and creeped out users alike.
The ambient light sensor is quite aggressive though, and it doesn't recognize when you're looking at the screen, resulting in the brightness dimming at inopportune moments.
Some of these reasons are technical: Dropped connections can interrupt the call in the middle of an important question or answer, the use of a webcam and a Skype window makes it difficult to maintain eye contact, and it's easy for both the interviewer and the interviewee to get distracted and pulled away from the screen at inopportune moments.
You know how we just mentioned about a controller dying at an inopportune moment?
Rain (as long as you are not caught in it at an inopportune moment) makes the world glisten and makes everything feel cozier and more intimate.
The killer, they suspect, is performing his or her or their own remake, complete with the same red herring structure (Jill's boyfriend (Nico Tortorella) pops up at inopportune moments, and her mother (Mary McDonnell) seems a bit jealous of the attention toward Sydney, don't you think?)
There's a truly awful narration that feels tacked on at inopportune moments, and Hardwicke's restless, roving camera could stand to take a breather every now and again.
As she confronts the realities of her diagnosis, she opens up to the love that seems to have found her at an inopportune moment.
This means that if a player does not perfectly execute the rage, they can accidentally activate a power - up, potentially utilizing it at a inopportune moment and wasting it.
«I'm at your service... quick blind spot... take a break... I don't understand what it is you're saying...» It has a similar quality to the automated human voice that calls you up at inopportune moments, asking for feedback, seeking to rate the quality of your experience on a recent visit to the bank, supermarket, mobile phone shop or cosmetic counter.
Though Theater Mode doesn't replace the Mute functionality from KitKat, it's now easy to permanently keep the screen off without worrying that it will light up at inopportune moments.
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