Sentences with phrase «caught in the headlights»

For Paterno, the image that stands out most sharply from his first championship season was formed over the course of three hours and was caught in the headlights of the team bus.

The traffic was completely one way as Atletico Madrid looked like a deer caught in headlights in front of their opponents incessant offensive forays.

Watching the TV pictures of the players in the tunnel before the game and they looked petrified, like a deer caught in headlights, and when the game started it looked no different.

«There was a little spell against Liverpool where they got caught in the headlights a little bit and that was probably down to the atmosphere and we can create a similar environment,» Johnson added.

I was like a deer caught in the headlights.

For now, they've once again been caught in the headlights.

No wonder the mayor looked like a deer caught in the headlights at his press conference.

Policies - they need binding together as a theme and the issue of how / when to announce the big policy ideas needs resolving because it appears we have been caught in the headlights over how to deal with Labour nicking our ideas or whether to get on with it anyway.

And, like rabbits, we are «caught in the headlights».

Me, I look like a deer caught in the headlights when I am photographed!

Also finding the cover disappointing was zoom: «Deer caught in the headlights.

We're just supposed to be oh - so - impressed with the psychotic killers that are the Mexican drug cartels (as if we didn't already know that) and with a special agent chick thrust in the world of hardened law - breaking operatives and who ends up behaving like Bambi caught in headlights.

But recreated on film, his stasis makes little sense; he comes off as the worst sort of amateur, a deer caught in the headlights put through manufactured fictional paces that he, perversely enough, lived for real.

Like Jack Nicholson in About Schmidt (another Payne peepshow into disappointed and disappointing middle Americans), Dern plays a deer caught in the headlights of his own insignificance.

The thought of these people getting rejection letter after rejection letter left me stunned like a deer caught in the headlight.

Partly, it's because the patients are unable to act, like deer caught in headlights.

«Instead of being the doe caught in the headlights in the first year, they come in and say, «Did you ever consider...» And sometimes we say, «es, but we've never had anyone to spearhead it — do you want to?»

Most of them come to us shy, scared and have that «deer caught in the headlight» look.

Regina is one tough chick (a poster girl for the fictitious «EuroAsia» of videogame and anime lore), but doesn't have the «deer caught in the headlight» charm of Claire Redfield or Jill Valentine.

Dark vines appear from a green bramble or mist — purplish red or yellow buds emerge from jagged pods — while bright areas in the paintings» backgrounds suggest that these secluded tangles of vegetation have been momentarily caught in the headlights of a car making a turn on a remote road.

Talk about a deer caught in the headlights; I've never heard a more pathetic pitch for something in my life.

The video interviews were the brainchild of the folks at the Legal Talk Network, who did all the filming and production and also did their best to keep me from looking like a deer caught in the headlights.

For at least the first 10 minutes it was like being addressed by deer, caught in the headlights of my rampant femininity.

I've seen job candidates look like deer caught in the headlights after I asked them about something that's written on their own resume.

Most of his important bits and pieces were covered by the fan thank goodness, but as we all stood there in shock for a few seconds, he looked like a deer caught in the headlights.

I suggest the BoC is like a deer caught in the headlights: uncertain of which way to jump, frozen by fear.

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This will make for «interesting times» if the Conservative government is caught like a rabbit in car headlights with few policies and no clear idea of how to govern the country.

Scott Mandia, founder of the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund spent the morning tweeting that Gleick «has effectively caught Heartland squarely in the headlights.»

So it isn't surprising that many are caught like a deer in the headlights when the spotlight turns on them.

In «The Cougar» an aging temptress with a penchant for predatory behavior catches a skittish young buck in the headlightIn «The Cougar» an aging temptress with a penchant for predatory behavior catches a skittish young buck in the headlightin the headlights.

Unsurprisingly, visual stylist Corin Hardy's ambitious debut looks terrific, with the Hallow fleetingly glimpsed as the sun goes down and then caught in sinister silhouette by failing car headlights or - as they sneak forward - by a wind - up eco-torch.

You can't accuse the Alfa Romeo 159 of blending in with other cars on the road; its distinctive front grille and jewel - like headlights certainly catch the eye.

Caught again in Death Valley, CA the 2014 Kia Soul model has an evolutionary design with a prominent grille and larger headlights.

The big bold boxy signature BMW kidney grille (finished in chrome) is what will catch your attention immediately flanked by the headlights with the corona rings on either side.

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Other characteristic design elements, such as the familiar twin circular Adaptive LED headlights, and the eye - catching front grille with M double slat bars in black, have been reworked to create real presence on the road.

The design of the three - dimensional main headlights in innovative LED technology is especially eye - catching.

The doors slide in opposite directions to access the cabin, while it also boasts eye - catching LED headlights with Z - shaped lighting signatures.

Most Turner prize winners have something of the rabbit - caught - in - headlights about them the morning after the night before.

He has also received a number of travel and working grants and was in 2012 awarded by the National Arts Council for his exhibition «New Paintings Caught» in the Headlights of Parking Cars in Ringsted Gallery.

Other major democracies (ones with stricter limits on taking campaign money from special interests; and ones in which the price of gas has been well over $ 5 / gallon for years) don't seem to have this problem of science blindness and deer - caught - in - the - headlights inaction.

Here is a real basis for FoI exploration of correspondence and data, and surprise, surprise, it isn't the AGW proponents who are caught in the glare of the headlights.

Instead of getting caught off guard and staring like a deer in headlights, you need to have the perfect elevator pitch ready to go.

Have you ever been to an interview and suffered from a «deer in the headlights» scenario when caught completely off guard by the question your interviewer asked you?

An unskilled Realtor fears objections and freezes in terror, like a deer caught in a car's headlights.