Sentences with phrase «by going through the motions»

Even if things don't go so well, you're still working towards your goal, still improving yourself simply by going through the motions.

Nobody experiences pleasure and bliss by going through the motions, and there isn't a prescription that you can follow.

Now recreate this chest training tip by going through the motion of a «regular» flye with your wrists locked, while feeling the muscle movement with your other hand.

Of course, a great date is the best way to get the next date, but never lose sight of the fact women live by instinct, comfort and feelings — not by going through the motions of a date that looks good on paper.

I found it by going through the motions of a booking all the way to the Review Itinerary Details screen, where the offer appeared.

Not exact matches

He crafted a superhero story that goes through the standard motions of an origin story while also managing to be a fun heist movie with great performances by Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas.

Go through the motions to set it up (all pretty self - explanatory) and then link the pen up to the app by holding down on the pen's button until a light on the pen turns blue, and then place it near your iPhone.

On a similar note, when you take the time to do more than just go through the motions, you might actually feel your work day pass by faster.

More important, in the great times when I feel like I am just going through the motions, I am reminded by Fred's example to always strive to find a more eloquent or efficient strategy.

The big O does everything by the polls — so he goes through the motions and then thanks everyone will accept the facade as truth.

Then there is the «mission stiff,» a man who lives for years by exploiting one mission after another, becoming very skillful in going through the motions of a conversion.

One may go through the motions required by some form of love without loving.

There is a world of difference between seeing this teaching lived out with generosity and grasping the difference it makes and, for example, being told by a tired, cynical RE teacher: «Well, no one believes it anyway but we have to go through the motions of teaching this.»

Unless a maturing faith is found, the person either leaves the ministry or by middle age is like a salesman going through the motions of peddling a product in which he does not believe.

When one would learn to make the motions of swimming one can let oneself be hung by a swimming - belt from the ceiling and go through the motions (describe them, so to speak, as we speak of describing a circle), but one is not swimming.

By five months, the baby is sucking its thumb, punching, kicking, and going through the motions of crying.

If the alcoholic's initial motivation is inadequate and this is overlooked by the counselor, the usual result is that nothing productive occurs even though there may be an extensive exercise of «going through the motions» of counseling.

Man city are far from their best and even so there is no hunger from our players... Add the inevitable mistakes from the usual suspects and it looks like we are just going through the motions with no real desire... Any team with mustafi and xhaka as guaranteed starters has left the top flight in my books... The only positive we are still one nil down I would prefer to see some kind of attacking effort in second half and loose by 3 than this kind of blandness

Every spring, a rebuilding team expected to go through the motions gets off to a great start fueled by surprising performances and a little bit of luck.

Actions speak louder than words, that's true again.My simple view is that he is not a perfect man in what he does by any stretch of the imagination, that's why we all go through the motions with the performance of the team all the time.

Why would Alexis do that These days when a player signs as a «free agent» he will.ask for a signing on fee and his salary will be set high... depending upon his marketability.Defoe signed for Bournemouth on a «free» and received a very healthy fee himself as well as a reported # 100k a week.Imahine what Alexis could negotiate in January... and after that he can just about «shut up shop» as far as Arsenal are concerned... going through the motions until the end of the Season on preparation for the World Cup followed by his lucrative move to a new Club Once again Arsenal made the wrong decision and have shot themselves in both feet #shambles

On the half hour it had been a lacklustre performance by United who had not created anything since the Rooney effort at the start of the half and honestly looked like they were just going through the motions as news had come through that Arsenal were up 3 - 0 so fourth position would be the best United could finish.

Given their similarities, the way Suu Kyi is acted by Yeoh pondered the question, was it Yeoh's acting that was robotic or is that simply how Suu Kyi is, just accepting her fate and going through the motions?

By now your legs will be burning like hell, so if you can't go through a full range of motion on every rep, go for half reps on the last two sets.

Take it from the chest guru himself: Arnold would focus all of his attention to figuratively «become» the muscle he wanted to target so that he could maximize the muscle damage caused and get bigger gains than he would by just mindlessly going through the motion, and he especially stressed the importance of this method in terms of chest training.

Continue by contracting the core and activating every surrounding muscle as you go through the motion.

By using a full range of motion on the right exercises, guys who go through my Chest Sculpting training, not only end up with bigger muscles than most other guys who lift weights, they also end up with better shaped bodies — with a wider chest and narrow waist for that V - taper, and better shaped muscles — with good thick muscular development from origin to insertion, rather than just a fat round muscle belly.

Make sure to keep a full grip on the staff and do not let go with either finger; it is better to initially perform this exercise through a partial range of motion with a full grip and eventually work up to the full range of motion then to cheat by releasing fingers.

Avoid that from happening by going through the simple motions of working out your wrists on a daily basis.

It is recommended by the experts that you visually and physically go through the bench - press motions to help prepare your mind and your body for the coming shock of pressing a huge weight.

To perform this exercise, simply go through the running motions in place by lifting your knees high to your waist level.

These people will often be stuck in a close minded rhythm, trapped by their skepticism and simply just going through the motions of their lives.

Allow yourself to be supported by your friends, even if you're just going through the motions because it helps you jumpstart yourself into a new rhythm.

Trouble is, while not trading quips, the characters actually go through the motions of being scared of the croc, menaced by the croc and so on.

Hell, I'd rather be chased by Ghostface across the quad than endure McCarthy going through the motions one more time.

In these early moments, like a half - hearted action scene set in a Chinatown restaurant secretly run and frequented by extraterrestrials, MIB3 smacks of desperation as it sadly goes through the motions it so cleverly unveiled fifteen years ago.

Daybreakers Rot [LIKED]- Thirty - odd minutes of greatness succumbs to going through the motions genre storytelling by the end.

Oscar season is usually an inevitable narrative of a handful of winners that everyone knows will win, but we still have to go through the motions of being surprised by it all.

Helmed by veteran TV director Mimi Leder in somehow small - screen - friendly Panavision (that she manages to make her panoramic establishing shots look like the stock transitions in any episode of «Hart to Hart» should be included in a textbook somewhere), the picture goes through the motions — from discovery of the peril by naïfs to the involvement of the Internet to the slow - in - coming participation of the powers that be — of a genre most recently (and faithfully) resurrected by The Day After Tomorrow.

Once assembled, the titular ensemble, led by Joe Cocker - like sixteen - year - old Deco (Andrew Strong) and alleged beauty Imelda (Angeline Ball) love and hate, fight and play, and go through all the motions of every episode of «The Monkees».

Instead, everyone goes through familiar motions in predictable ways, in the hopes that by following the directions of others so closely, the same results will occur in the finished product.

While it isn't a great performance by most traditional measures, it likely would have been an action star - making turn, as Lee not only has the athletic physical attributes to convincingly go through the motions of the fight choreography, there is an innate sense of goodness and sensitivity in his demeanor that makes for a fine romantic hero, even though he looks like the inspiration of Heath Ledger's Joker from The Dark Knight and he's got murder on his mind.

The trailer's now up at Apple, though we wouldn't be surprised if anyone had trouble getting it to work since the company's servers were hammered yesterday by the pre-order launch of the new iPhone and WHY DID I HAVE TO SPEND SIX HOURS GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS AND STARING AT THE SPINNING WHEEL OF DOOM ONLY TO BE TOLD THAT THE PRE-ORDERS HAVE SOLD OUT?

Accompanied by a stellar supporting cast, including James Franco as Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, LOVELACE definitely goes through the motions.

By repeating this cycle, students will learn to replace «going through the motions» with the kind of purposeful effort that leads to true learning.

Consumed by grief, Sarah is just going through the motions despite the urgings of her friends and family to move on.

Also, what about self - published writers who don't go through the motions of actually «copyrighting» their work (since the work is still protected by the same copyright laws)?

Your rabbits motivation is essentially the reward and once it has learnt a behaviour it knows it can go through the motions and get its treat however if you want it to put more effort into it you can make it reinforce the behaviour by skipping a treat every other time.

Before arriving at that big turning point in my life, I'd found myself «putting in time» and going through the motions of life, uninspired by what I was was doing, knowing there was something else «out there» for me.

While Echo has its interesting moments, I was overall just going through the motions by the halfway mark, and there's basically no story to what is happening in the current moment.