Sentences with phrase «bat around off»

This is the 10th anniversary of the Serpentine's Marathon series, a once - a-year, 12 - hour event founded by the curator / art superstar Hans Ulrich Obrist, where artists (previous participants include Marina Abramović, Brian Eno, and Yoko Ono) bat around off - the wall ideas, perform, and engage with the (generally pretty rowdy) audience.

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Beckham hits a walk - off, playoff - hopes - crushing HR off new closer Sergio Romo, stares at the ball as it leaves Camden Yards, does a Bautista-esque bat - flip, and proceeds to do the MC Hammer dance around the bases with both fingers pointed at Kevin Cash.

Right off the bat, if you're a woman, you look around, and there aren't a lot of women who look like you.»

Bees, birds and bats make a huge contribution to the high yields produced by coffee farmers around Mount Kilimanjaro — an example of how biodiversity can pay off.

Kyle was always an athlete, setting the Pole Vault record in high school and earning a scholarship to college for his track and field prowess, and he brought that same athleticism to the gym — it was an awesome workout right off the bat, and he said he hadn't used free - weights in a workout for years because he owned a Bowflex, but it was hard to tell by watching him throw the weight around.

We have found that most people that purchase the one month membership with Positive Singles end up sticking around for several months unless they have some great luck right off the bat.

They're almost impossible to accurately guess off the bat the first time around, but that little factoid has yet to stop me from trying all the same.

But off the bat, there seems to be no explanation how much improvement there's been in this second go - around.

This way he keeps the viewer — and possibly the director — genuinely off balance, shimmying up against a couple of massage parlor cuties (he's clobbered by a baseball bat, departing consciousness with a lovely goofball pratfall), sussing out Martin Short's smarmy Dr. Blatnoyd (letting Short run circles around the infield, the receptionist, and a nice pile of medical - grade cocaine), or playing telephone straight man to Jeannie Berlin's Aunt Reet, a Catskills gargoyle with killer timing: «Maybe you're better off with the Nazis.»

You can't really stealth because of the stupid cats following you around in the demo, but assuming you were alone and not making noise, you could sneak up on a boss and get the advantage right off the bat.

The successful writers who are successful right off the bat are usually so busy that they're the last people to get around to setting up their business correctly.

If you're like me, and your interests in a new fighting game center almost wholly around online competition or local Versus mode battles, you've little reason not to jump in right off the bat.

Sales were extremely strong right off the bat — we did over 50,000 copies in 24 hours, which definitely resulted in a lot of stunned faces around our office.

Straight off the bat its obvious this is a visually amazing game with an impressive attention to detail: the glare can get in your eyes while driving around the sandbox world that is Fairhaven.

The TV show revolves 100 percent around the idea of Batman teaming up with another hero, so we knew right off the bat that you couldn't do this as a traditional single - player game.

The thread got batted around for a week or so, and dropped off the Forums map, until this past weekend, when the old thread got new life with some opinions about which CFLs are the best bet for light quality, light quantity, non-flickering and non-buzzing.

Luckily, those bats are only likely to be in - flight around dawn and dusk at wind speeds between 2 and 5 meters per second — so Ecotricity and RSPB implemented a mitigation plan by which the turbine is shut off for half an hour before and after dusk, whenever wind speeds are below 7 meters per second.

Norm is really one of the best injury lawyers around, he takes action right off the bat and pursue your claim to get the most for your claim.

The woman on Channel 16 had warned that this might be the last mild weekend for a long stretch, if not for the rest of the year, so come Saturday Rangel puttered around the yard, scratching the ground haphazardly in a way she called «raking,» unfurling the BBQ umbrella and then winding it down again and tying it off at the bottom against invasion by sleepy bats.

The Inside Scoop for Iowans Gathering insurance quotes is the best way to save money on coverage, but if you call around on your own it can also be a great way to get roped into a plan right off the bat.

Around back is the Xperia XZ1's single 19MP rear camera, and while the single sensor might not seem as exciting right off the bat compared to all of the dual - camera systems that we're seeing, the XZ1 will still be capable of capturing both 4K and 960 FPS slow motion video.

Right off the bat it's pretty clear where Google focused its efforts this time around: image stabilization.

Work Experience Bullets: Right off the bat, make a list of your top achievements over the course of your career — including everything from leading a challenging project to a successful conclusion to turning around an unprofitable company division.

Loves to knock them off of a table and then bats them around.