Sentences with phrase «bats around»

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

At one point in his stage, there is a ladder with many bats around.

Stir Crazy features a rotating «tail» that bats around a refillable catnip - diffusing ball in a swirl of motion that cats will be drawn to try to catch.

Showing up announced, Isaac's smiling Bud Cooper corners Margaret (Julianne Moore) about the fishy details surrounding her twin sister's death — a conversation that gradually ramps up from phony politeness to outright accusation, as Cooper bats around his guilty target like a cat playing with a mouse.

In the third deck, a group bats around a beach ball, eventually knocking it to the cheering crowd below.

In the third deck, a group bats around a beach ball, eventually knocking it to the cheering...

I liked the fact that people came together and batted around ideas, and then, as an editor, you would look for the perfect writer for it, somebody who could make it better than you imagined, then ultimately putting an issue together was about getting the right mix and the right tone.

News reports are always batting around some new bit of bad research.

My husband and I are batting around the idea of visiting Jamaica in January (mostly to escape our horrendous winter) and thought the bays looked amazing!

A few dish ideas are batted around by the chefs as they stare up into the leaves.

It's batted around, and eventually Stephen Carr recovers it at the Buckeye 15.

As of mid-August the Sooners were batting around several ideas for honoring Box.

It's batted around by defenders and just barely hits the ground.

Now in her early 30s, she is left to bat around a ball in the park.

Except Clifton himself fumbled at the MTSU 16, and the ball got batted around a bit before another Arkansas State player fell on it for a touchdown, 98 yards or so from where Middle Tennessee's Tucker maybe caught the ball a few moments earlier.

With his new club Dave hit 14 homers and is batting around.285.

He surprised everyone by batting around.300.

«Edgar is always carrying a bat around,» says Seattle outfielder Jay Buhner.

As far as the old school vs new school, this has been batted around plenty here.

The media batted around innuendos of drug use — rumors that reached Shula, who checked them out with Fazio before the draft.

It's webbed design makes it easy for new babies to hold (thanks to the grasp reflex in the first couple months), and you can even hang it from the baby gym with a few plastic links so baby can bat it around and make it rattle.

The concept of developing the site, where dirt and construction debris are dumped, has been batted around for years, and residents said they are getting frustrated that nothing has been done.

They were so sweet together, batting around a beach ball and -LSB-...]

A cushy monkey, jingly toucan, cute elephant, and parrot with spinning paddle invite baby to bat them around, an action that helps develop gross motor skills.Or, you can put your baby on his belly for some tummy time on the soft quilt bottom.

We bat around balloons around here pretty much every day.

It's been a proposal batted around for decades.

The problem with the sorts of ideas being batted around at the moment — primarily devolution for the English regions — is that they are at once too concrete and too unsystematic, while also being too «top down», and too vulnerable to short term swings of public opinion.

«A lot of people go a long time being batted around from specialist to specialist and get a whole battery of tests.»

In the 400 milliseconds it takes a professionally thrown fastball to reach the plate, the batter has to budget time for locating the baseball, identifying its spin, deciding whether and where to swing, and actually whipping the bat around to the right spot.

A more controversial question that scientists and politicians have batted around for decades, says Shah, is «What is the source of that difference?»

Steve: I am turning to page 74 actually, because there were a couple of things, I was just leafing through all of these shorter origins pieces, and I learned a couple of really interesting things such as, we have this half a page on the origins of insurance and the insurance industry's getting, they are getting batted around a bit during this whole healthcare reform discussion, but what's really interesting is that the advent for or the necessity for insurance wound up being a crucial driver to the advent of mathematics and probability.

Although, if left unsupervised, you can bet that your cat will most likely find a piece and make a mess by batting it around for awhile.

My approach to mentoring in general is asking a lot of questions and being in conversation and batting around ideas and looking at different scenarios.

I have been batting around the idea of business cards myself.

On the web, they come together to laugh and bat around ideas.

Cumberbatch's name has been batted around by the media as a possible choice for Strange ever since talks with Joaquin Phoenix reportedly went south back in July.

Starring Nicole Kidman, Dermot Mulroney, Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode, and written by Wentworth Miller (yes, of «Prison Break» fame), the film is one that is being batted around as a contender for Cannes and is one of the most anticipated films of the year, in any event.

Danny Boyle and Yann Demange's names were batted around last month, but with insiders informing Variety that MGM is looking for a «big name» to helm the new chapter, the Steve...

In the horror drama, she begins to unravel when she's batted around by newcomer Lily (Mila Kunis).

The film indulges in the intellectual rap session with both fascinated attention and wry humor: it is, after all, the pretentious proclamations and justifications of two privileged men batting around the meaning of life in a restaurant where most folks couldn't afford to buy dessert.

There's an obvious affection for the Friday the 13th and Halloween films being batted around here, and other trashy 1980s exploitation movies, but it's welded with the self - referential fourth - wall deflating nabe of David Wain's Wet Hot American Summer, with gags outnumbering the gore by an ample ratio.

An American everyman (Depp) is picked out of a crowd by the most beautiful woman on screen, followed by police and foreign agents (led by a ruthlessly obsessive Paul Bettany), targeted by international gangsters (under the command of vaguely Russian baddie Steven Berkoff) and batted around by opportunistic Italian cops.

The fact of Netflix's release strategy for The Cloverfield Paradox is something we'll be batting around for a while.

But she's taking creative control of her projects, too — in addition to batting around ideas with Paul Thomas Anderson, Haddish will also executive produce and star in a new animated series from BoJack Horseman creators Raphael Bob - Waksberg and Lisa Hanawalt.

We're constantly teaching and learning from each other and batting around ideas.

We just have more people speaking more articulately and batting around ideas.

You can bat around contenders for the «most beautiful electric car» all day, but if you ask us, there's only one car deserving of that title, and it's the new Jaguar E-Type Zero.

Every year, new terminology is batted around major conventions.

For anybody who follows Joe Konrath's blog, you'll know that the figure that keeps being batted around as a yardstick for indie authors selling well is those who are selling 1,000 books or more a month.

I think the main problem with all of this is discoverability, and we've also batted this around with comiXology.