Sentences with phrase «by biting my tongue»

And even if he thinks he knows how to put it on, chances are that I've discovered a better way than the way he learned when Anastasia was little and will sit by biting my tongue in my effort to not correct him.

Not exact matches

Three times I have been felled by lightning pain as seizures short - circuited my brain; Three times, waking in hospitals at dawn all memory of my poetry was gone, and once I'd nearly bitten through my tongue.

The years go by and I become more and more aware of my pioneer lineage, I understand the pull west better, I feel suffocated without a bit of a space, without an early morning walk beside the yarrow patch, I need the north, and I need the west in a way that veers towards the mystical, which is just fine to a Holy Spirit adoring tongue talker like me.

Charismatics speak in tongues and some will even allow themselves to be bitten by snakes.

I've always felt a little uneasy about the richness of cashew - based cheesecakes, but absolutely everyone else is always very impressed by them, so maybe I should bite my tongue.

Mountain pepper berries have an oily, mineral - like, turpentine aroma and when even minute grains of the ground fruits are tasted, an initial sweet, fruity flavor is quickly followed by an intense, biting, tongue - numbing and eye - watering heat that continues to build and will not subside for some minutes.

because he knows any new ambitious manager will not tolerate his biting of tongue whenever he misses a sitter and he would have been long gone by now

The forms of malocclusion described by these authors included crossbite, reduced arch width, lower anterior facial height, rotation of mandibular plane angle, open bite, and tongue thrust swallow.

Usually a baby with natal teeth can not bite his mother while nursing, as the teeth are covered by his tongue and the baby does not yet have teeth in the top of his mouth.

At first it was hard for Maggie to over and over let her children dictate the script and the activity, but she has found that by going along with it (and biting her your tongue when she has the need to control things), her children are more grounded and ready to go with the flow.

One Democratic legislator noted that if Bloomberg had been the one delivering that statement he would have been met by derision and vitriol but Democratic legislators bit their tongues.

«Lamprey are eel - like parasites that use their tooth - like organs and raspy tongue to latch onto fish and suck out the blood, while hagfish scavenge by taking bites out of dead matter,» he says.

When you bite into celery, the natural nitrates are converted into nitritines by bacterial strains on your tongue.

I'm biting my tongue — I really want all the contestants to try The Wild Diet because they're going to be eating delicious food without hunger... and they'll probably get faster results by going Wild, too.

As intrigued as I am by Sutter's willingness to bite off something bigger than his character's tongue to tell a story about the true costs of SAMCRO's business dealings, I'm not sure this is the time, or the place.

At church with his family, Darwin bites his tongue during sermons by their awkward friend and neighbor Reverend Innes (an underused Jeremy Northam).

It's a textured, moody piece that becomes frightening by the end, while always maintaining a bit of tongue in cheek.

Scored by another tongue - bath of a score by James Horner (bring a squeegee and a change of clothes, you'll feel like you've taken a swim in a spittoon), Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius is every bit as episodic, derivative, patronizing, and bloated as Horner's compositions — the man, by himself, defining a genre of picture perhaps fatally damaged by his very intrusion.

Most of all, you might have to bite your tongue to keep from laughing uncontrollably during the film's best short, «The Birthday Party,» written and directed by Annie Clark, better known by some as St. Vincent, in her filmmaking debut.

The tongue - in - cheek nature of the film helps immensely to keep the more outlandish concepts into perspective, as this is a movie meant purely for entertainment, and we are willing to accept every farfetched contrivance just to be rewarded by more in - jokes, asides, and good bits of over-the-top action.

Written by Robert Bloch (Psycho), all four segments were satisfying and well - acted; the ending was a bit cheesy, but it was definitely made to be tongue - in - cheek, with a few inside jokes here and there.

By biding our time, biting our tongue, retaining our dignity and ignoring them (maybe the «smart and negative» can inform our development as better writers but even so, that doesn't mean anyone has to know this!).

My little dog was bitten UNDER the tongue, by a venomous baby snake... he's a smoothed nosed Japanese chin... so we never saw it happen.

An owner should NEVER attempt to grab the tongue or place fingers in the gagging dog's mouth, for risk of being bitten by even the sweetest dog.

But by the second half of the week, these proclamations would raise my eyebrow in mirth and I did have to bite my tongue to tell them to say that to the exhibitors on the floor of the World Travel Market, who some didn't know what a blogger was.

But those few who desperately try to downplay the game citing one of the above excuses to fulfil their own agendas need to take a step back lest they get bitten by their own tongues once the sequel comes out.

Mother of God's religious undertones are amplified by a collaged advertisement for the Catholic Review, found in the lower right corner, which reads «An invaluable spiritual road map...» This bit of text draws together the title of the painting, the maps, and the spiritual allusions of the circle, yet it also walks a line between sincerity and tongue - in - cheek humor.

By using his mother tongue and an indispensable measure of humour, his works appear to offer bite - sized responses to human experiences like failure and success.