Sentences with phrase «busybody in»

My gorgeous, jet - setting cousin Yasmin became a portly busybody in an earlier work.

If a kid CONSISTENTLY shows up in January in t - shirt and shorts, without losing body parts to frostbite, then it stands to reason that the kid is being kept safe and healthy, just not by the prescriptive methods demanded by the busybodies in the nannystate.

Not exact matches

Crusaders are busybodies who are mixing their devout religious beliefs in a matter that is a psychological condition and that these unlicensed people are trying to provide therapy whilst pushing their anti-port crusade is unconscionable.

For we hear that some of you are living in idleness, mere busybodies.

«For we hear that some of you are living in idleness, mere busybodies, not doing any work.

Why must atheists be such meddling busybodies and interfere in this relationship?

Sorry, but when you are in a restaurant and somebody does it right next to you it has nothing to do with being a busybody — more like the mother is forcefully sharing her business with everyone else.

The self - important busybody and ultimate authority on feminine beauty wrote in to Carolyn Hax, saying:

-LSB-...] despite his own urge to be a busybody and butt in when he sees bad parenting, he just shuts up.

Maybe it's just my busybody nature, but I found the glorious break offered to me in maternity leave to be a shame spiral of boredom.

So, if busybodies pop up with ridiculous questions like, «Well, if women can just nurse in public, what's next?

Nursing moms have a right to feed their children anywhere they and their children are allowed to be, and they don't need to cover up or feed in a nasty public bathroom just to spare busybodies the trouble of keeping their eyes on their own affairs.

I am in Boston giving some talks, and once again, some parents tell me that one reason they're not sending their kids outside is the fear that some busybody will call 911.

Battling the interference of 658 MPs, plus Peers, press and Royalty; coaxing and soothing his collaborator Pugin; fending of the mad schemes of a host of crackpot inventors, including Dr Reid and his Ventilator, and assaults from the egos of countless busybodies intent on destroying his reputation and coming in three times over budget and 17 years behind schedule, Barry eventually succeeded — after countless setbacks and rows which contributed to his death in 1860.

The judge, who noted that Ogungbeje was not a party in the suit filed by the EFCC, described the lawyer as a meddlesome interloper and a busybody, adding that his application was strange to law.

Tony Blair, who has an irrepressible busybody instinct, keeps himself busy in foreign climes.

I'm a busybody all around and I wish there were more hours in a day.

He has long specialized in small and midsize films, from «Being John Malkovich» to «The Meddler,» an April release starring Susan Sarandon as a busybody mom.

This brings their two families together, which includes Tom's busybody Dad and Mom (David Paymer and Mimi Kennedy), Violet's British roots in her divorced parents (Jim Piddock and Jacki Weaver), her wild - eyed sister Suzie (Alison Brie) and Tom's co-worker and best friend Alex (Chris Pratt).

His Punch - Drunk Love is a fabulous deconstruction of the genre, a glimpse into a world in which the tics of the romcom that we chuckle at — casual violence, henpecking from busybody relatives — are made terrifyingly real.

Trouble is, she's broke and can't afford the surgery, so while she's concocting many money - making schemes, she finds Delacorte is beginning to get cozy with «Ms. Perky» (in more ways than one), the school busybody named Amy Squirrel (Punch, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger).

She, in turn, is a petty busybody with a long suffering husband, Howard (Richard Easton).

(This is, after all, an author who, in his 1997 novel Mason and Dixon, managed to compose a genuinely profound hymn to the historical «arts of the quidnunc» — i.e., of the busybody — that doubled as an elaborate, ironic parody of a long - defunct literary style's attempts at profundity.)

Esperanza (Adrianna Barraza) is the local busybody and in essence, the glue that binds this little patch of divergent neighbors together.

Standing in his way, however, is the dictating busybody Kangaroo (Carol Burnett), who feels Horton's ramblings could upset the balance of the jungle and lead to anarchy.

In Brown's telling, teachers and schools have been descended upon by an army of «little busybodies to run down the halls and chide the teachers,» he told CALmatters, dispatched from Sacramento or, worse, D.C.

But we love how the effort level loads up naturally; there's no sudden change in effort or quickness, like you get in so many busybody power - assist systems.

Both Cheryl and Teddy feel a deep dissatisfaction with daily life in Little Neck Cove, and throughout an eventful, often violent summer they turn to each other — not to mention painkillers and booze — to cope with neighborhood busybodies and gossips.

Swedish author Backman, 35, came to the USA in May to promote his most recent book, Britt - Marie Was Here, about a busybody who walks out on her cheating husband.

The Cairn Terrier loves to play and needs his daily walks, but is adaptable to any home in which he can be a full participant and busybody and where his bold terrier traits are kept under control.

When Doc goes missing in 1931, it's up to Marty to travel across time to rescue him and prevent his future from being derailed by local busybody Edna Strickland.

I have to say that instead I expect them to be left rotting in place as appears to happen in the USA until some busybody organisation complains and any clean up will then be financed by the taxpayer.

Or if you just have busybody neighbors, like in the case of Adam Guerrero's teaching garden in Tennessee.

Private standing has traditionally been viewed as the best way to operate our justice system because: it prevents mere «busybodies» from using up scarce judicial resources; it ensures contending points of view are raised by those personally invested in the case; and it preserves the proper role of courts and their relationship to the other branches of government.

The floodgates and busybody warnings by the airline are not surprising, says Janna Promislow, an administrative law professor at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C.

For his part, Lukács rejects the «busybody» label and pointed out in his written submissions that the firm acting for Delta has noted his successful track record in case commentaries on past decisions.

If busybodies like me chime in, so much the better!