Sentences with phrase «at jokes made»

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«The media made a mistake by covering Trump's candidacy at the start as some sort of joke or media prank,» Harvard political scientist Danielle S. Allen tells the NYT columnist.

«This speech rings true, makes sense, and is freshly phrased and well - articulated,» he says, adding a joke: «At this rate, he'd make a heck of a lot better Republican presidential candidate than Ted Cruz!»

At the CECP's CEO Investor Forum in February, Polman said — only half joking — that he felt empowered to make this decision immediately because, «My simple point was the day they are hiring you, they are not going to fire you.»

«I've made billionaires of dollars of failures at Amazon.com,» Bezos says, joking that it could be like «a root canal with no anesthesia» if he tried to dwell on them.

However, if those jokes are at the expense of other people or have even the smallest potential to make people squirm, keep them to yourself.

This leader thinks making jokes sets everyone at ease, and it can work.

The hiring supervisor and — incredibly — the HR manager were dismissive of their questions and made jokes at their expense.

Then she laughs, not so much at the joke but at herself and that period of her life — the weeks she spent meditating alone in Rishikesh, India, the temple town along the banks of the Ganges that the Beatles once visited and made famous.

Uber board member David Bonderman resigned this week after making a sexist joke at a meeting meant to address harassment at the company.

Google made several jokes about Apple and the iPhones at its event to show off the new Pixel 2.

At an all - staff meeting to reveal the results of attorney Eric Holder's investigation into Uber's cultural issues, TPG founding partner and Uber board member David Bonderman made a sexist joke about how women talk too much.

For months, Morel — an elder (read: over 40) member of Moment who jokes that his white hair makes the LAWA reps feel more at ease — has puzzled over what he calls the logistical nightmare posed by the work site.

«I recall when we has giving lectures and it was a huge effort for him to speak (before the tracheotomy and the computer voice) he still made the effort to throw jokes in,» Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said on Twitter.

If this person makes a comment that upsets you and this is what follows, then you know it wasn't a joke at all.

«Never make a joke or try for humor at someone else's expense,» Mulally said.

And to the guys at Sweet Jesus... don't make jokes or have fun with the name of a religious figure.

And oh did we ever aspire: the tax cuts were bigger and tastier than we could have imagined; the torch - carrying to further enrich US entertainment companies made us laugh and cry; the barbs thrown at Dalton (the boy can't take a joke); the raid on Conservative Party headquarters.

«Just a reminder to everyone, I'm here to make jokes, I have no agenda, I'm not trying to get anything accomplished, so everyone that's here from Congress you should feel right at home.»

Tons of christians don't go to church, and at my church we always joke about the C&E's — the people who pack the place on Christmas and Easter only and make it hard for the rest of us to even get into the place.

Funny how those people still want to reserve THEIR right to rage at, bully and make jokes of the things THEY don't want to accept though.

A prophet and teacher who never nagged at them, never flattered or coaxed or patronized; who never made arch jokes about them, never treated them either as «The women, God help us!»

He even fended off a heckler, joking, «We actually arranged for that, because it made me feel at home.»

Maybe they were the type to walk at a distance from the official group, making jokes, muffling their laughter.

But we Christians think that such joking is coarse and crude and so we frown at those who make these jokes, and look down our pious noses at those who laugh.

It is strange to see us all sitting together at the sacred meal — master breaking bread with his slave, a Jew sharing a joke with a former pagan priest, a husband pouring wine for his wife, a zealot debating politics with a tax collector — but this is what makes us different; it's what makes us Christians.

But when the person who holds some doctrinal position diametrically opposed to my own is sitting across the table from me eating chicken wings while we watch football, laughing at the joke I just made, it becomes a little harder to start a flame war with him online.

If we can be slower to respond in anger every time a controversy unfolds, culture war battle is being fought or a joke gets made at our expense, we can actually be recognized for how we love.

Yet in view of its amazing growth in its first 150 years, it is not without interest to note that an LDS mathematician recently made a half - joking but statistically correct projection that «if Mormonism continues to grow in the United States at its present rate, and if the U.S. population continues to grow at its present rate, then in another 150 years when Mormonism celebrates its tricentennial, all the nation's citizens will be Mormons.»

Absolutely, without some form of real debate I usually get distracted making jokes at other peoples expense...

I take the point of the women who prefer the more gender - neutral «I'll make you fishers of persons» but he was addressing fisher men at the time, and the joke — which is delightful — doesn't really work once it has been neutered.

A critic once remonstrated with me saying, with an air of indignant reasonableness, «If you must make jokes, at least you need not make them on such serious subjects.»

I remember when the first season of Serial was at its high point that Best Buy put out a tweet referencing something about the pay phone at Best Buy — where one of the calls was supposed to have been made — in kind of a joking way.

Scientist Tim Hunt made a sexist joke at a conference and was broadly attacked by both commentators and the Twittersphere until he quit his honorary fellowship at University College London.

Lowery also said he made clear at the time that the comments - at the event reportedly attended by hundreds of African Americans - were intended as a joke.

No one knows for certain what happens after death, but if someone makes a lame «joke» at my expense, I am not afraid to make a «joke» myself.

Instead, I'll make a cheap joke about how it sure looks like Rick Warren was present at McKinley's inauguration as well as Obama's (compare this photo with this one) and note a less auspicious historical resonance that has nothing to do with church history but will be irresistible to you history nuts.

January 31, 2012 at 5:13 pm Report abuse o Chad @HippyPoet» many people at this time and ALL THOUGHOUT history have made [the claim that they are the offspring of divine origin] Right now there is someone in South America who claims to be the reincarnated jesus himself — that's not a joke!

@HippyPoet» many people at this time and ALL THOUGHOUT history have made [the claim that they are the offspring of divine origin] Right now there is someone in South America who claims to be the reincarnated jesus himself — that's not a joke!

The response from mainstream media (some praising, some denouncing and many questioning his comments) has made it clear that C.K. struck a nerve, and that this conversation really isn't about the comedian or his particular jokes at all.

The problem I have with this is, none a single sentence make any sense, what predictions are you referring to, during the times of Christ most people thought he was a joke, it is not a stretch of the imagination to say that most people would reject such nonsense, I think the original writers are laughing in their graves at how gullible you all are.

Weather you believe or not (I open my eyes every day) so it's not hard to All will stand before the lord on the day of reckoning which man will no doubtedly usher in and those who don't believe or against god will try to wage war on the almighty to no avail, only to be left in ruins... the great Satan (adversary) will be all who oppose god in battle, that serpent of old is still here today, we live in the middle of a brood of vipers and this website is part of the venom aimed at distorting the faithfuls belief as well as a an agonist for those who wish to continue to disbelieve... CNN is anti god To my brothers and sisters who truly live in Christ Peace be with you and never forget your path despite the darkness that is trying to consume you, bring enough oil for your lamps to live in this darkness and bring extra in case of a delay, he will not abandon you... we will not be forgotten Amen To those who don't, I know the myth of Santa and the easterbunny really choked up your insides to find that they were not real, but childhood is over and it was a cruel human joke designed to make it that much harder for you to believe in that which visits you and you can't see, no matter you have life so is it too much to ask for a little belief?

In evangelical circles, he's like the kid from high school who makes crude jokes at every opportunity, uses the words «gay» and «queer» to describe the things he most detests, encourages his friends to subject the unpopular kids to ridicule, and belittles the guys who aren't «macho» or «manly» enough to be in his club.

Make sure you throw a few jokes in if you can, at least one good joke per episode!

She is a kind, honest older woman, plump and funny, she likes to make jokes at her own expense, she has never gotten married, but she has always seemed satisfied with her life.

I'm not very good at not making bacon jokes, I guess.

He also doesn't mind being the centre of attention and has this inane ability to make a room full of people laugh at his terrible Dad jokes.

Today, class, it being late July and all, we're going to examine our zucchini facts: • Zucchini is always at the end of any A-to-Z food list; • Zucchini and fruitcake are the undeserving targets of many a joke; • The zucchini plant literally grows like a weed, making it absolutely ubiquitous in vegetable gardens across America; • And for that reason, enterprising cooks have discovered ways to turn it into muffins, and cake, and pancakes, and... Baked Zucchini Sticks.

I loooooove cookies (particularly chocolate chip oatmeal cookies), but I almost never make them at home because they contain so much sugar and I'd gobble up the whole batch by my lonesome (no joke).

And the ironic thing is that I my boss gave me this GIANT can of some of the best tuna I have ever tasted (no joke, it's really delicious) and my mom and I wanted to make something special with it and we wanted capers but didn't have any at the time.....

It's a tired joke, but at the same time it does make me pause and think about the people suffering in our world.