Sentences with phrase «clinging when»

I find I just have to accept a little clinging when I wear them.

You might have expected a certain amount of whining and clinging when you leave your toddler at day care or with a babysitter, but why is your soon - to - be kindergartner getting teary when you go out to dinner with your spouse?

I realize that the new sweater - dress you bought is festive and adorable, but your curves don't need any extra cling when you're about to plow through this much food.

They fit, they cling when wet, they're black.

This functional and fashionable sarong doubles as a beautiful designer full size beach towel to absorb water, yet never clings when worn

Don't you just loathe fabric that clings when your stomach is bloat - happy with food or gas?

Not exact matches

When it comes to the first lady's future plans, many Democrats still cling to the audacity of hope.

At a time when Americans still clung to the hope that the United States and the Soviet Union could forge an enduring partnership for peace, Kennan explained why true peace was impossible.

We've seen over and over — in Venezuela, in Argentina, and in Brazil — that populists can cling to power even when the economy is doing badly because they can blame their performance on scapegoats.

The intense, full - day strategy sessions invariably ended with Cornelius getting a headache, he says — particularly when he sparred with executives in the company who clung to vestiges of big, fat pharma.

Old companies fail when they either cling pigheadedly to the old ways, but new companies can fail when they assume that «disruption» means ignoring previously - discovered wisdom.

When I first started investing, I clung on to rules of thumb as beacons of certainty that I could navigate by.

We all need good friends to cling tight to when the turbulence hits.

The Church welcomes you into community around the world, and through a shared hope in Christ, certainly clings to «particular expectations for the future» when Christ returns.

Unfortunately, the Catholic church still clings to their Medieval philosophies, (you know, when they could torture and kill people in the name of the church).

When surrounded by abandonment, the only clinging hope is He who gave his life for me because He loves me.

Skytag: «Religions brainwashed people, and people who have been brainwashed cling to what they've been conditioned to believe even when there is no reason to believe it.»

When we have more, we also have more to lose — and so we cling to it tightly, fearful it might escape our grasp.

Either Jesus was a Bhuddist, or the people who created the character of Jesus used many of the Bhuddists teachings when they created the myths you now cling to today.

Politics is really bad for people clinging to beliefs even when the facts prove what they believe is wrong.

When confronted by preachers, protesters and television personalities who offend us, it's easy to cling to Jesus» simple command from Matthew 7:1: «Judge not, that you be not judged.»

This discrepancy was revealed most dramatically when Martin Luther was considered a heretic by the institutional church of his day... but only because he clung to what he saw the institutional church as rejecting: that is, the apostles» teaching.

If there's one thing that stands out in 2017 (the year when various segments of Christianity cling ever tighter to either «Free Market Jesus» or «Social Justice Jesus») it's Johnson's courage to risk awkwardness for following in the footsteps of Christ's relational boldness.

I have clung to John 15 in my lifetime, may it become a ballast for you, too: «when you're joined with me and I with you, the relation intimate and organic, the harvest is sure to be abundant....

And it is all in God's plan when new discoveries show that past interpretations of Scripture regarding the physical realm were incomplete or inaccurate, and He expects us to be constantly seeking to align our understanding with our discoveries, not to cling to interpretations about the physical realm that arose before more facts became available to us by the use of our God - given curiosity and intellect.

This is not merely a faith that she clings to, nor a life raft for when times are tough.

Just make em up, and when confronted with the truth, cling even closer to your misinformation.

Surely this is what the writer of Hebrews intended when he wrote, «Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us» (Heb.

It's hard to cling to the letter of the law when the law is ambiguous.

Given that we are rich when the world is poor, that we cling to our nuclear arms as if world extermination were a noble risk, destroy ancient forests, gouge the landscape, pollute the soil, water and air, that we copulate and abort with unrestrained abandon — how then are we to interpret Jesus» words, «It is what comes out of a person that defiles,» so as to come up smelling like roses?

Despite all my preparation, I felt panicked when I took the stage after the band finished the first night, steams of vapor from the fog machine still clinging to the set, 500 young faces looking eagerly back at me.

Our deepest longing is to see the day when the triumphant, sovereign lordship of you our loving God will no longer be a mere hope clung to desperately by faith, but a manifest reality in all human affairs.

It gave me a bit of a deeper understanding into the «dark night» that I am occasionally and involuntarily led into, when I have nothing to cling to except for God's promises.

When we wrongly believe that we possess such selves, so Buddhists say, we generally cling to these fictions at the expense of our own well - being and that of others.

But being the hypocrit that you are, you will blindly use science when it benefits you while clinging onto your stone age fairy tale to the bitter end.

Those who still cling to pre-scientific religious fictions, ignoring the truths discovered through modern science, should at least take notice when the biology department at the world's most prominent Baptist university, where a statement of faith is a prerequisite for teaching, unequivocally support evolution through the following statement, which you can look up on their web site:

When he stood up in an official campaign speech against Hillary in 2008, ridiculing those of us especially in the midwest, saying «They cling to their guns or religion...».

If you cling to the irrational belief that it's the literal word of a diety, and you read it and actually decide you want to follow it, be self - aware enough to understand when rational people question your morality and intelligence.

It was tough for me to give up those things that I clung to that were institutionalized by man especially when I thought they worked or because they had His name attached to them.

Most of the time it seems to be all the things you condemned: hierarchical, conventional, judgemental, hypocritical, respectable, comfortable, moralising, compromising, clinging to its privileges and worldly securities, and when not being objectionable, just absurd.

When I go to the mall, with the baby strapped to my chest and the toddler clinging to my hand and the preschooler walking two steps in front of us while I plead for her to «wait up,» no one is looking at me with appreciation.

Selling out your own pastor when the heat was turned up, misquoting the Bible, looking down on the «bitter clingers» and supporting things that the Bible clearly says is sin... these make me think he is not a Christian.

He was talking about the failure of the modern church to admit the presence of the dark side of God when he said, «He realized that they clung desperately to the God of love out of fear of facing the darker side of God.

I would say that it's more that she's figured out that the bible and religion in general is bull but like a child with a security blanket, she doesn't want to believe what she's figured out (like the child not wanting to believe that they've outgrown the blankie) and is desperately trying to rationalize clinging to her faith when the best thing she could do is free herself from what she deep down inside knows is untrue and silly ancient myths.

Hrothgar embracing Beowulf, Johnson embracing Boswell (a pretty flagrantly heterosexual couple) and all those hairy old toughs of centurions in Tacitus, clinging to one another and begging for last kisses when the legion was broken up... all pansies?

When we cling to the law and turn it into an idol and a weapon with which to beat other people down with, rather than try our best to lift them up.

For many years I have struggled with deep seated doubts about Protestantism which clings so blindly to the Reformation's Sola Scriptura overreaction which gained its foothold at a time when «enlightenment» was only just beginning to teach us how to sign our names other than with an «X».

Love this line... «categories almost never fail in making us categorical when we cling to them to tightly.»

I still cling to one aspect of my earlier thought on this topic, though: When God gives us a directive («be holy» «be perfect» «sin no more»), it is a sort of «speaking the end from the beginning.»

Joe is a snuggly boy at the best of times and when he is sick or tired, he is a clinging monkey desperate to be held, twisting my hair around his baseball mitt of a hand.