Sentences with phrase «curmudgeons on»

Comprehensive online reporting of cases should by now have made it unnecessary to quote long dead curmudgeons on the subject of the proliferation of case reporting, except possibly from the perspective of comic relief.

Curmudgeon on There is a compassionate and ambitious alternative to Cameronism and Tory members prefer it

Maybe it's just that I'm becoming more of a curmudgeon on this and other elements in our profession.

Not exact matches

He personally works on perfecting the exterior of a curmudgeon.

Yet, I'm also guilty of acting like a curmudgeon, someone who reacts with a twist in my jaw first and a «no» on my lips.

Now, before all the church curmudgeons jump on this with I - told - you - sos about biblical illiteracy and widespread deficiencies in systems for discipleship (which may be partly to blame for the statistic), it important to note that unfamiliarity with the term does not necessarily equal widespread ignorance of its content.

Maybe quinoa isn't the first thing you think of when you think of a Christmas dessert, but the raspberry flavor will make it a perfect dessert for everyone — even curmudgeons who like to diet on Christmas.

Kentucky's famous curmudgeon, Adolph Rupp, is all smiles (on the inside) as he comes up with a team that surprises even him

Labour MP and prolific tweeter John Woodcock has called on the Government to U-turn on their stance, declaring that «only curmudgeons will be in the office anyway».

Published, presumably, by a gang of dour curmudgeons who hate everything, JNRBM openly welcomes the data that other journals won't touch because it doesn't fit the unspoken rule that all articles must end on a cheery note of promise.

SF Bay Area, California About Blog Jay R. Brooks on Beer - Beer writer, syndicated columnist, university lecturer, work - at - home father, potato nerd, View - Master nut, curmudgeon.

The temptation to swear off dating gets stronger with every Ashley Madison hack, celebrity breakup, and creep exposed on Tinder - but according to new research from eHarmony, Americans are far from ready to throw in the towel and become cynical single curmudgeons.

For four years, he and Cosby in their scenes together comprised one of the funniest comedy double acts seen on television, his innocent yet conniving Griffin Vesey making the perfect foil to Cosby's ill - tempered curmudgeon Hilton Lucas; another highlight of his portrayal (and a clever «in» joke referring back to his work in Cool Runnings) were Griffin's occasional attempts to impress women by passing himself off as a West Indian, affecting a Jamaican accent.

Despite this, Murray is great in a role that demands he play unsympathetic curmudgeon intent on offending everyone he meets.

Jack of course must find a method of flushing Tuck out of his system and re-enlarging him before Tuck runs out of oxygen and before the aforementioned villains (led by the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers» Kevin McCarthy, a one - of - a-kind curmudgeon) catch up to Jack and Tuck's on - again / off - again girlfriend (Meg Ryan), a reporter for whom Jack develops affection as her surrogate lover.

WHY: On paper, «St. Vincent» is a pretty standard coming - of - age flick about a wide - eyed youngster who learns important life lessons, albeit by rather unconventional means, from the crusty curmudgeon that lives next door, all while helping the self - anointed babysitter to become a better person in the process.

I liked Harrison Ford's curmudgeon, and I didn't take the film as some assault on modern day news.

And yet, there's nothing innately new going on here, the old curmudgeon that secretly has a heart of gold opening up to a young boy in need of a friend is innately the gist (look no further than last year's Bad Words for another recent example).

Set in 1964 Paris and based on the recollections of American expatriate art critic James Lord, Final Portrait depicts Giacometti as a rumpled curmudgeon.

Also new: comedy Wilson (2017, R) with Woody Harrelson as a neurotic curmudgeon who discovers he has a grown daughter and thriller Unforgettable (2017, R) with Katherine Heigl going psycho on Rosario Dawson.

DJ (voiced by Mitchel Musso, «Hannah Montana») is a precocious young boy on the verge of turning teen that is sure something is amiss about the ominous house across the street, owned by the cantankerous curmudgeon, Nebbercracker (Buscemi, The Island).

Beautifully shot Bahrani's homeground of North Carolina, the film charts the tentative friendship between two very different social outsiders: Solo (Souleymane Sy Savane), a Senegalese immigrant taxi driver struggling to make something of his life, and William (Red West), an elderly curmudgeon who appears to have given up on life altogether.

Fiat originally planned to sell Lussos only with the automatic option (it's the only transmission on the limited, 124 - unit, $ 35,995 Prima Edizione Lusso), but certain curmudgeons from outside the company complained.

Alex Hoffman starts off with an essay on The House of Five Leaves, and David Welsh adds links to some posts he has written on Ono at The Manga Curmudgeon.

And if you need to make room for those new releases, Kate Dacey has some suggestions for selling your manga on E-Bay at Precocious Curmudgeon.

Of course, even in the heyday of Select, curmudgeons muttered darkly about Amazon being an evil corporation that would turn on indies when we least expected it, and so we shouldn't be putting all our eggs in one basket, and so on.

A Curmudgeon's Guide to Self Publishing is one of the best series of articles I've seen on Self Publishing.

Am I holding on to the past because it's genuinely important or am I merely being an anachronistic curmudgeon?

When a renowned curmudgeon writes that something posted online «may well prove to be the most exceptional thing ever created in the blawgosphere, and the one thing that will outlast all of us,» it is Legal Blog Watch policy to invest a mouse click to see what's going on.

Postscript: Williams discusses the book on the podcast he and I cohost, Lawyer2Lawyer, in an episode that also features Jones Day partner Mark Herrmann, author of the best - selling ABA book, The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law.

For Jones Day partner Mark Herrmann, the blogging light bulb went on the day the Wall Street Journal Law Blog mentioned his book, The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law.

One of my favourite «how - to» books on legal practice is The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law by Mark Herrmann.

Of course, if you're still in the mood for more advice on succeeding as an associate after you've read all of this, you might try Drug and Device Law co-blogger Mark Herrmann's «Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law,» which still preempts the field of «how to succeed» guides for associates.

I'm a traditionalist and a curmudgeon, but just based upon this transcript excerpt, I'd likely start off thinking along the lines of a ninety - day license suspension, then maybe dialing that up or down depending on the remaining circumstances (and in particular, the degree of contrition expressed).

In fact, Crooks says, one of the first questions he's asked by those he is working to place is about whether firm leaders consider the CMO job an important one: «They want to know how much of a curmudgeon factor there is with respect to the leadership's attitudes on business development.»

Last week Otto Sorts, the curmudgeon of Attorney at Work fame, raised several questions about his firm's focus on social media as part of a business development plan.