Sentences with phrase «but blank stares»

You keep telling your associates and anyone else who will listen that the use of «and / or» is unnecessary and damaging to the sentence in which it is written, but you get nothing but blank stares back.

But here's the thing: Whenever I bring up this pet peeve of mine at family gatherings or among friends, I get nothing but blank stares and frustrated responses.

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We have all suffered from the agony and torture that is writer's block, but attempting to write a business plan while staring at a blank page puts the suffering on a whole new stratosphere.

Everyone knows who the Quarterback of their team is, but try to explain to them that the person known as «Jesus» was only an ittinerant Rabbi by the name of Yeshua, and you get blank stares.

In reality, however — as Janet E. Smith has pointed out — any such suggestion will be met with blank stares followed by the protest, «But that would be completely different!»

Growing up in South Texas, we ate a lot of cajeta and candies with cajeta in them but when I've tried to explain to non-Texans that dulce de leche really is better with goat's milk, they stare at me with this blank, disbelieving look in their eyes.

For example, if you ask her who won a game last night, you won't get a blank stare, but actually find out the score to the 49ers - Packers game.

You rush in to see what's wrong and you find him sitting up in bed with a blank stare but very agitated.

I tried to explain it to them but received a bunch of blank stares.

The # 1 question / blank stare I get from people is, «I want to do all this, but where do I start????» The simplest things you can do involve swapping ingredients — just exchange the unhealthy ones for healthier options.

I stared at a blank page for approximately too long before remembering I had the * CUTEST * dress (I know, I know, but isn't this the cutest dress?

Naturally, his acting skills do need a lot of refinement — we're not looking at the next coming of Bobby De Niro here — but his occasionally lackluster delivery and blank stare is simply an offshoot of a much, much bigger problem: The script.

,» but while I had him cornered I thought I should ask him point blank about his potentially staring in Christopher Nolan's «Inception,» a rumor that's been bouncing around -LSB-...]

A journey whose destination is clearly signposted from the very beginning, too often we found ourselves staring out of the windows at a blank and featureless landscape; our trip to «Nebraska» got us where we needed to go in the end, but didn't take the most interesting or diverting route.

But there is a tiny moment of almost - pleasure that shows on his face near the end, in contrast to the blank wild - haired stares elsewhere, that'll make it hard for us to argue with those who will passionately champion his contribution, so fair enough.

But all we see is a blank screen, accompanied by complete silence, while the patrons stand and stare, anticipating something that never comes.

His left hand still held the rudder wheel, but his blank eyes stared up at the dark sky.

If we do nothing but sit at a desk all day, staring at a blank page or a flickering screen, we soon run out of ideas.

Your first week went by swimmingly, but now you're left staring at a blinking cursor and a blank page.

But, if the only answer I get is a blank stare, I know it's not going to be an easy problem to deal with.

But ask him how the calculations in the SWR Google worksheet work and you'll see a blank stare!

But when I say that, I get blank stares of disbelief or heavy breaths.

If you walked up to a random person in a gaming store (in North America) and asked if they heard of Final Fantasy or Zelda, they'd likely respond «Yes», but ask them about Ys and you'd likely get a blank stare.

Modeled in polymer clay, the curious figures are rendered in a slightly unnerving scale, not quite human but large enough to look you in the eye with their only partially opened eyes and blank stares.

The city had been touring neighborhoods to talk about the potential of more compact housing and micro-apartments, Godine said, but more often than not the reaction was a blank stare.

Ask most people about dysfunctional propane tankless water heaters and you'll get a blank stare, but tiny home neighbors can relate to each other's esoteric house projects 100 percent.

But when we try to bring our ideas to other lawyers, we tend to get blank stares or objections.

• Lawyers understand what «e-discovery» lawyer means, but when I tell a fellow soccer dad, I usually get an «Oh» or a blank stare.

The reports noted Cruz's «quiet misdemeanor» and «blank stare,» but he seems to perk up when he receives visitors.

It makes a bunch of those random prepaid phones you see in the back of carrier stores, but ask most Android fans what they think about ZTE, and you'll get a bunch of blank stares in...

Take your time to think about it, but don't stare at the wall with a blank look.

But beyond that, in both cases, you're locked in a staring contest with a blank page.

Mention Dodd Frank 342 and you may get a blank stare, but it's a regulation that needs some serious thought.

He once told a client that thought a Murphy bed would be useful, but «in return, all I got was a blank stare,» he recalls.

Sometimes they ask me too, but I just give them a blank confused stare, refer them back to the husband, and continue looking at pretty things.

I'm not going anywhere (um, except for Blissdom), but having Tim's point of view here will fill in for those moments when I'm staring at a blank screen with nothing to say.