Sentences with phrase «better than gossip»

Such critiquing can create a judgmental negativity that is really no better than gossip.

Not exact matches

And, considering that nearly half of employers (44 percent) studied (in a 2015 Careerbuilder survey of more than 2,000 U.S. hiring and HR managers) said they would think twice before moving an employee who gossips up the ranks, such office chitchat does more harm than good, right?

This kind of gossip is far worse than any good deed you may lay claim to.

In my view, this means First Things was in this instance no better than an intellectualized version of a gossip magazine at a grocery store checkout.

2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self - control, brutal, haters of good, 4treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.

2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self - control, brutal, [a] haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of [b] godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.

These contain a lot more than gossip and often have a good deal of substance.

Andrew has much better things to do than gossip with New Statesman hacks about nonsense, like working really hard in his constituency and leading a really effective local campaigning machine.

In this new isolated state, one engages in departmental gossip (because no one has anything better to talk about than the first years) and lives in the lab (because you want to get out into the real world one day and your advisor is itching for results).

«Groups that allow their members to gossip,» said Feinberg, «sustain cooperation and deter selfishness better than those that don't.

But almost any social behavior, including gossiping, altruism, kinship and even, unfortunately, racism, has been shown to be tied back to the simple fact that we survive better as a group than we do as individuals.

There is nothing better than catching up with friends, gossiping and looking gorgeous in a high low dress while enjoying cappuccino at the coffee shop.

Yet as many here have mentioned; when it comes to gossip, it's almost always better to ignore than to indulge.

Get to know Anatevka even better than Yente the matchmaking gossip, with this 2 - Disc Collector's Edition of Fiddler on the Roof.

He and his colorful coconspirators — David Ogilvy, Ian Fleming, and Ivar Bryce, recruited more for their imagination and dramatic flair than any experience in the spy business — gossiped, bugged, and often hilariously bungled their way across Washington, doing their best to carry out their cloak - and - dagger assignments, support the fledgling American intelligence agency (the OSS), and see that Roosevelt was elected to an unprecedented fourth term.

Yesterday, after a 15K race, a hair cut (apparently my cut hair weighs 0.6 pounds, thank you very much) and an unfulfilled trip to Best Buy's Geek Squad (Apple is looking better and better), I was lazing about on the couch, catching up on old episodes of Gossip Girl and 24 (yes — I watch both shows, which I realize is only slightly less bizarre than admitting I was riveted by both the series finale of Battlestar Galactica and the world premiere of Nora Robert's Northern Lights).

It is my opinion that it is human nature to gossip and bad news seems to travel faster than good news.

After all, what better way to fill those long dull hours on a stand than with a little gossip.

These employees will usually gossip, complain about upper management, and will almost invariably convince themselves that they are better than everyone else in the office.