Sentences with phrase «bullshit detector»
The phrase "bullshit detector" refers to someone's ability to detect or identify when someone is saying something false or misleading. It's like having a sixth sense for spotting when people are not telling the truth or trying to deceive others. Full definition
I think this is one of the reasons why I love midwives, they have a finely tuned bullshit detector and aren't afraid to call me on it.
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The key to life is the ability to know when those experiences and that information is trustworthy or not — that is to have a self - critical and working bullshit detector.
Older women have an extremely sensitive bullshit detector, so be 100 % honest all of the time.
And because of that, I have developed an exquisitely tuned bullshit detector for what works and what won't.
We just have to keep them talking, and those with functioning bullshit detectors will inevitably say «Wait a minute!
Honestly, anyone whose bullshit detector is not going off like crazy in the first few pages of the Bible is just docile and bovine and stupid.
As a professional bullshit detector, his only course is to expose as fraudulent the enchantments that have always kept the damned human race in thrall to his grand Adversary, but he must do this while striving to re-enchant it in his own darkly romantic terms.
She's a fascinating character: a spookily self - aware sociopath who's transformed her «condition» into a kind of infallible bullshit detector.
(Altman is shown to have an extraordinary bullshit detector for which flourishes will and won't «play.»)
While writers» workshops are a dime a dozen, the prestige comes from membership in an exclusive club, from having a chance at seeing how «the sausage is made in literary America,» said participant Michael Bourne in an article for The Millions: «What Bread Loaf offers is not just the opportunity to rub shoulders with eminent authors and publishing worthies, but a chance to do so at a time and place when their usually trip - wired bullshit detectors are disarmed.»
This artist collective of aesthetic marauders and walking bullshit detectors has opened its own academy, in a donated Tribeca building, intending to subvert art schools» market - driven ethos.
Navigating this universe of intellectual gymnastics and 200,000 square - foot art fairs requires a good deal of studiousness and an excellent bullshit detector — traits that New York artist William Powhida possesses in spades.
Critic Jerry Saltz dubbed them «human bullshit detectors,» which is also an apt description of Art Fag City.
You don't need others to tell you what to do... but you do need a «bullshit detector».
A bullshit detector.
I guess my bullshit detector is set at a bit too high of a setting.
When U.S. officials and defense contractors warn of the looming threat of cyberattacks from China, Iran and terrorist groups, my bullshit detector lights up.
Almost like a detox, although I hate that word because it sets off bullshit detectors.
When test subjects saw the new photos, they were creeped the fuck out — humanity, like sex, is not meant to be perfect, and our bullshit detectors wail when it is.
Oh wow that's a really sweet sentiment and wonderful words of encouragement, is what I would be saying if my bullshit detector hadn't exploded from being overloaded!
Unless the batteries on my bullshit detector are dead, this was a touching and honest sentiment in a booth that was otherwise full of amusing illuminated puns and one - liners, at the Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles; NADA
«People's bullshit detectors are turned up high these days.
The #bitcoin community needs to get its bullshit detector cranked up a couple notches.