Sentences with phrase «caught even me off»

I wouldn't include myself among the list of John Carney devotees (Once left me semi-charmed but little else, Begin Again failed to move me) so my unwavering love for the undeniably delightful Sing Street caught even me off guard.

Not exact matches

Even if you feel ready to step away from your smartphone, you have to make sure all the people accustomed to reaching you aren't caught off - guard by your sudden absence.

When you take the time to read the latest article or, even better, spend some time casually catching up with a team member over a cup of coffee or lunch, you may not be scratching something off the to - do list, but you're building relationships, learning something interesting, discovering something you likely would not have found out otherwise... and, most important, helping to build the foundation for long - term success.»

Without fail, I start every morning off with a cup of «proper English tea,» even when traveling in San Francisco, and leisurely check the daily newspaper headlines on my tablet, before diving into email and catching up on the company Chatter feed.

That's 11 % to 13 % of the entire portfolio, which caught even the analysts who watch the company the closest off guard.

«Even with quarterly reviews people can be caught off - guard with something that's built up,» she says.

Even Twitter was caught off guard on a Periscope stream of an earnings call when a watcher asked CEO Jack Dorsey if he was single, sending a flood of cartoon hearts across the screen.

Even the financial wizards who sold them were at times caught off guard by the fallout.

Thomas Kelleher, president of Morgan Stanley, said on March 20 that tech «holds no fear» for banks, even though it caught the industry off guard:

This peace can keep the most violent of us in check, even as I was once placed in check when, during 9/11, I wanted to do nothing less than track Osama bin Laden down, cut his head off and put it on a pole and parade it all over Afghanistan, or wherever I could catch him.

BUT I do believe in separation of «church» and state (another founding principal of our country)... so NO religious holiday should result in a day off from school not even CHRISTMAS or PASSOVER etc. if you celebrate the holiday don't send your kid to school and they can catch up later.

I even heard stories something like «Whale Caught Off Coast of Greenland With Man Found Inside Still Alive After 2 Days!»

What I do is this... I try to keep my personal tastes and values at the forefront of my mind while browsing (e.g., I'm a dietitian, so even if something looks super awesome in the picture, if it's deep - fried and uses 2 cups of butter, I try to give it a pass)... I also keep lots of different boards, so that I can keep all the stuff I pin well - organized (e.g., I don't have a «Dessert» board — I have a «Cookie» board, a «Biscotti» board, a «Cake» board, etc.)... and finally — when something truly catches my eye on Pinterest, I print the recipe out right off and try it as soon as possible — within the next few days, if I can!

Even better is that Barca will be playing catch up in the new year as they are heading off to Japan for the Club World Cup.

Every sport book today is computerized, Back in my day money always moved the line if a player was respected, and if the squares tossed enough money on a game most books would move the line a little, However the big books would just sit and even take layoffs from the small stores, They knew even if the squares got hot in the end the juice would eat em up.Gone are the days when Billy Walters and his crew would move the line 3 and 4 points, I'm talking sides not totals, Forget about what they did to the horseshoe with totals in the NBA, Back then you could catch small non computerized stores with bad lines to begin with, imagine a three point move and the small store or corner bookie is off on the line a few points to begin with, I could catch some game with 6 and seven point advantages, with computers today if you can catch a half or one point advantage your lucky.Even if you know the group moving the line most of these store move the lines on air, when I say air they just watch the screen from D.B. And move the line before they even get hit, Hell even the big stores have the sharps on small limits per call.

Finally Charlie slung himself off the top rope like a human crossbow bolt out into a crowd of drunk, flamingo - limbed models, all of them spilling their drinks and laughing with their legs spread out wide as they collapsed helplessly to the floor, not trying to catch him or even break his fall as he fell to the ground.

But with the Wolverines losing their entire starting linebacking corps this off - season, the do - it - player (he also rushed for 4.0 yards per carry and caught eight passes) will be even more valuable in his new position.

I really hope that Slaven Bilic and his West Ham side do us a big favour tonight and take something from their clash with United, because that would mean that they could no longer catch us and even though City could still finish in third, the pressure would be off.

But at the moment, we are 12 points off the leaders, and it's going to take one hell of a turn around to catch up, even with 30 matches to go.

And the Lions find some other criminally underused WR from a different team and sign him to a deal that may even seem high at the time, and then, once he gets here and starts catching lasers from Stafford his career takes off and by the second year his contract seems like an absolute steal.

Even if he sticks with his studies, over the coming months his mind will likely wander off to the dream he still entertains: that some NBA scout will catch a glimpse of him, perhaps at one of those predraft cattle calls, and take a liking to his ability to finish a fast break with a sudden dunk or slap chest - to - chest defense on an opposing point guard.

The club has also been caught off - guard by the improvement of their closest rivals, with Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester City and even bitter neighbours Tottenham now having arguably overtaken them in English football's pecking order this season.

Built around the pre-Liverpool talents of current Stoke City stalwart Charlie Adam, back when he was good, they caught their supposed betters off - guard by actually attacking — unusual for a newly - promoted team — and at one stage they even topped the Premier League for a couple of hours.

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

Arsenal did not score but we did have to play the whole second half with 10 men and were further reduced to nine after Mike Dean sent off Gabriel and Cazorla, but Theo Walcott was lively and our biggest threat, even if he did get caught narrowly offside a few times.

We are the worst top 6 team and even if we catch Chelsea, we're still 13 points off the top 4 and our style of football compared to the top 4 is just miles behind.

He has signed mainly foreign players who have been unsuccessful, even the better signings haven't been playing well for some time, the likes of Samu Saiz and Gjanni Alioski dropping off massively as the strains of Championship life catch up with players who were brilliant at the start of the season.

All of the action kicks off from 3 pm on Saturday afternoon, however the game is not being shown live on TV, but you can catch all of the highlights on the BBC later in the evening.

If you see an issue starting — let's say you catch your son texting at 1 a.m., even though the phone is supposed to be off by 9 p.m. — have a problem - solving discussion with him.

Time to yourself in the evenings to relax and catch up with that long lost friend you've been meaning to call... or drinking a glass of wine and losing yourself on Pinterest for an hour... or even sneaking off to binge on your favorite reality show...

This caught me off guard during my pregnancy as I didn't know how to write a birth plan, let alone what that even meant.

What may come as an even more difficult thought for a parent who is caught off - guard: If your child was caught, it probably wasn't their first time using the drug.

Even the most liberal among us can be caught off guard at the sight of a woman's breast.

Start off slow and don't expect your toddler to catch on overnight, even if he is older than 3.

They caught me off guard, even though I was five days late at that point.

His series of questions, which rigidly defended the Bilderberg Group's activities, were so buttoned up even Clarke was caught off guard.

Early Saturday evening I was walking up 18th Street in Adams Morgan (DC) and stopped off at Columbia Station to catch the end of a jazz set, which turned out to be a good test for the camera and microphone, since I was sitting on a partially covered patio in the bright outdoors and shooting into a much more dimly lit space inside.

Seward's statement appeared to catch everyone off guard — the Assembly speaker, the Cuomo administration and even Flanagan's office, which apparently did not get a heads up on the rank - and - file lawmaker's press release plans.

De Blasio's middle - of - the - road comments caught political analysts — and even some of his closest allies — off guard.

Even many Corbyn supporters were caught off guard.

But he admitted the government had been «caught off guard» by its severity, even if the government had taken the reasonable steps to prepare.

Even the fishing industry has been caught off guard.

Still, throughout the evening I caught myself putting other words into the mouths of our audience as I played Monday - morning quarterback and popped off my own «snappy answers» to the interview questions the applicant was getting on stage, and I wasn't the only panelist doing this.

In the same way, Finch has even caught senior colleagues off - guard during public discussions at national conferences.

When the crew of a KCBS television news helicopter caught sight of a growing, glowing streak in the evening sky off the southern California coast November 8, experts and amateurs alike began to wonder just what this «mystery missile» was.

These highly intelligent cetaceans have been documented creating large waves to wash seals off ice floes, and even intentionally beaching themselves to catch prey on the shore.

A day off consists of catching up on my social media accounts and replying to messages, seeing my friends and going to the gym in the evening.

Even though Gossip Girl has been off air for four years, you can still catch episodes on Netflix and the show is still an inspiration to modern day fashion.

I'm even more excited to catch up on everything neglected during the holidays to attempt start off 2017 somewhat zen.

This outfit did me well as I dashed from coffee meetings at the Covent Garden hotel, to the streets of Soho (this outfit actually got a lot of attention which is always an amusing and overwhelming aspect of fashion week), to the Apartment to trade tales with my blogging friends, catch up on work and emails, and to get a moments rest before the afternoon and evenings events kicked off.