Sentences with phrase «beaten over the head»

It took being «beaten over the head» with such offers — providing undeniable evidence of «product - market fit» — but by October 2012, she had founded her second company.

Happy employees are employees that feel like their responsibilities matter, and you can make every assignment count by simply trusting them with it rather than beating them over the head with constant checks and updates.

We are all beaten over the head that we should always follow our dreams, always pursue our passions, always turn reality into what we believe will make us happy.

I respect Obama for keeping his religion to himself and not beating us over the head with it like those wacky Republicans.

Since you do not believe in Heaven, then where is the fear of me beating you over the head with a small Angel with rosy cheeks?

Some Christians give me a chance to get a few words out but most of them just jump down my throat and beat me over the head with their religion.

Anyway, I am ready to go back and get beat over the head with the Bible.

Maybe they were refused service because of how they looked or smelled, or maybe the person inviting them in for a meal just wanted to beat them over the head with the Gospel or tell them how Jesus could fix their problems.

Instead, we beat them over the head with everything they are doing wrong.

Some people will beat you over the head with a single passage because it says something they like, and then ignore another passage because they don't agree with it.

I'm thinking he was home schooled and the only science taught came from the buybull his Momma / Sister used to beat him over the head with (he's obviously suffering from some sort of low IQ issues).

If not, we don't beat them over the head, but rather just move on and trust that the Lord will, as you say, change belief structures... or not!

If you find yourself in a predicament, don't beat yourself over the head with guilt.

We don't have to beat ourselves over the head if the words didn't come just right, or if we forgot eight of the fifteen points in the «gospel outline» that our pastor wrote up.

I'm not gonna beat you over the head with scriptures from various faiths, though I think a good read of Huston Smith's THE RELIGIONS OF MAN would be a healthy read for a questioning mind.

But why beat ourselves over the head about it?

Many of us avoid cooking eggplant because we've been beaten over the head with a myth that eggplant must be salted before cooking to remove bitterness.

Except when it's entirely fair, when the team that was beat over the head with a yardstick for decades gets to enjoy it.

Instead of beating itself over the head with its own concocted image issue, maybe they can let these guys who spend 40 hours a week crashing into the strongest, fastest, most armored 1 percent of people in the world smoke pot after a game without worrying about being labeled a «thug» or a «locker room cancer.»

I'd prefer an ad that beat me over the head with the idea that Sprint is cheaper without admitting defeat when it comes to reliability.

Or it could be the the sticks he uses to beat you over the head with when hearing you slagging off his new teammates..

We have very right to use the sex - related hypocrisy of non-progressives as a cudgel to beat them over the head with.

Since Andy likes polls so much, we'll be sure to beat him over the head with his poll numbers when they fall.

They better be from NYS, too, or the Dems will relentlessly beat her over the head with her lack of in - state support.

«It's not a political film that will beat you over the head with moral lessons,» insists writer and director Neill Blomkamp, who grew up in South Africa and created the thought - provoking 2005 short Alive in Joburg, on which the feature film is based.

When people travel, they don't want to be beat over the head or made to feel bad.

Instead of beating yourself over the head and losing hope in the future, pick yourself back up and choose again.

If you ever work with a coach they will beat you over the head with breathing cycles and techniques.

He's gotten pretty good at turning over when I gently and delicately beat him over the head with my pillow but the point is, I'm looking forward to sleeping in for a couple weeks!

I promise I won't beat you over the head with my usual mantras today.

Spiritually grounded but won't beat you over the head with my spirituality.

What we really needed was a robot - on - human sparring session which ended with Atom getting overexcited and ripping off Hugh Jackman's left leg and beating him over the head with it.

An though his commentary on both the vampire trend and the fact that many artists have to lose their soul to attain success in music these days is far from subtle, we're never beaten over the head with the message.

Fortunately, it could have been much worse, and it's hard to argue with most of the message, so you won't feel like someone was trying to beat you over the head... too much.

Even with the localization constantly beating you over the head with problems, the game just dumps a bucket of charm on you that makes you forget those problems and enjoy the game for what it was meant to be: A cute, fun, quirky little adventure.

While the moral lessons are being beaten over our heads, key information is left a mystery throughout the film.

Anyway to me this is an interesting film that tries to put thought behind its subject with out beating you over the head with it.

By now we've all been beaten over the head repeatedly when it comes to the pirating of movies via illegal downloads...

A man tackles another man, holds his hand over the man's mouth and tells him not to yell; when the man lets go, the other man yells and the first man beats him over the head with a heavy implement until blood splatters on his face and clothing and we see the other man dead in a pool of blood.

That's idea is basically beaten over your head when playing «Inside Out», a completely different Infinity experience than anything I've seen to date.

The film doesn't need to beat you over the head with the idea that treating children like humans will result in their becoming better ones — it shows that, time and again, but never tells.

It takes place in the 70s, but outside of a few references, it thankfully doesn't beat you over the head with it the way other nostalgia pieces have done recently.

«The tone that I was basically looking at was the Ira Levin tone, this sort of 60s, early 70s, unfolding thriller vibe that doesn't beat you over the head, but sort of a «Rosemary's Baby» or «Stepford Wives» vibe.»

While it is a political film, it never descends into demagoguery, leading us to find the answers without actually beating us over the head with them in the name of edutainment.

Simple changes of lighting or camera angles speak help audiences to understand the beautiful nuance of the film without being beaten over the head.

Between the ascension of Marvel Studios and it's competitors filling the movie theaters with comic book adaptations, audiences have been beaten over the head with origin stories and heroes who question the point of their existence.

This enlightening eavesdropping is a great delivery method for the story because it not only makes you feel as though you are outsmarting your opponents, but it also keeps your discovery of the storyline feeling more natural and less like you're being beat over the head with the game's narrative.

The movie doesn't need to spell things out so heavily; either you'll get the gag or you won't, but beating us over the head with the concept makes it less and less funny.

They beat you over the head with the old gags you might have liked and even the ones you did nt like were brought back i was very disapointed i paid full price to see this overly hyped flop.

«This isn't a film that hits beats you over the head, but one that creeps up and knocks you out with a visual beauty and characters you enjoy spending time with,» we wrote in our review.