Sentences with word «curveball»

He didn't let Darren throw curveballs in Little League.

Features In addition to the new look, Lenovo throws a couple of unexpected curveballs in terms of the port selection, like a power connector that doubles as a USB port.

Someone is counting the percentage of curveballs thrown by every pitcher, and measuring how each batter performs when his team is down three or more runs in the seventh inning or later.

«Do not jump at an answer,» says Welch, «They are looking for the way you think because jobs always throw curveballs at you and it's the quality of your thinking they are looking for.»

The most unpredictable Oscar race in years yielded plenty of curveballs with Thursday's nominations.

If we know what we want to achieve, make a few adjustments for curveballs along the way, and invest in our passion and talent, our lives emerge, evolve, making our resume look like it was planned.

Scouting top talent to hire for a general labourer position is not easy, which is why hiring managers often throw curveball questions at interviewees during the interview process.

The game constantly throws curveballs into the mix in order to keep things interesting, and it mostly succeeds, providing new challenges that will keep players giggling and cursing doing things they didn't see coming.

«Open - wheel is where I'm from, but when curveballs like this come that I've had this year, sometimes it's smarter to look at what's the best way to keep going,» he said.

Here's what every first - time home buyer needs to know to dive into house hunting with confidence — and with as few curveballs as possible.

Punts off left feet spin in the opposite direction of those coming off the feet of right - footed punters, and former Chiefs returner Dante Hall once described it as trying to catch «a Roger Clemens curveball coming from the sky.»

The AstroTwins predict that March will usher in some cosmic curveballs as Venus, the planet of love, goes into retrograde.

He was Lincecum - sized, but he threw hard and had one of the better curveballs in baseball history.

At the final Prime Minister's Questions of 2017, May was thrown a Christmas - themed curveball by Labour MP Clive Efford, who asked: «Can I suggest to the prime minister that in order to extract the maximum pleasure from the messy job of stuffing her goose, that she names it either Michael or Boris?»

Xenoblade threw many curveballs to the VERY satisfying end, and this will probably have tons more of those.

While he's also walked far too many batters, the whiffs, the youth, and the potential for a plus curveball make those walks tolerable for now.

If you can't afford large monthly payments or are worried about not being able to in the future due to job loss, sporadic income, health issues, or whatever other curveballs might come your way, it's understandable that you'd opt for a 30 - year mortgage rather than 15.

Of course, you should always be ready to handle unexpected curveball questions that come your way — really good executive administrative assistants must be great at handling unexpected and last - minute demands from bosses — but being prepared for and mastering questions that fall under these categories will really set you up for interview success!

Well, Game 1 did him no favors as it was a real curveball of a game.

These fit into the film naturally and don't feel forced or like curveballs just for the sake of messing with us.

In addition, the researchers determined that «the optimally hit curveball will travel farther than both the fastball and knuckleball, because of beneficial topspin on the pitched curve ball that is enhanced during impact with the bat.»

Fortunately that side story takes a back seat to the transformation of these young men, who go from hurling javelins to tossing curveballs with their million dollar arms.

Arguably the biggest curveball tossed out by the industry all year, this download title takes the template of Far Cry 3 and throws the trappings of an 80s action sci fi flick over the top of it.

For residents in Wisconsin, many lenders offer personal loans to help with whatever financial curveball life throws their way.

You want to have a plan that can adapt to life's inevitable curveballs.

This same algorithm also explains why we are fooled by several motion - related optical illusions, including the sudden «break» of baseball's well known «curveball illusion.»

Experts typically suggest at least three to six months» worth of living expenses saved up so you can handle whatever curveball life throws at you.

With a few more curveballs in the plot, snappier dialogue and characters, and some more appealing actors, Impostor might have been made into some solid science fiction.

It might take one poorly timed hanging curveball to make this all useless.

That was the first curveball he'd ever thrown in a major league game.

Companies are changing the way they vet top talent including curveballs, new formats and questions that really make candidates think.

However, Conte has just thrown a huge curveball with the starting eleven he's fielded at Wembley.

Light - colored ribbed turtleneck dresses are pretty unforgiving, even if you're as fit as but the singer throws us a major curveball (and curve - enhancer) by layering coordinating pants — not slimming tights — under hers.

It seems like life on the road throws you one curveball after another sometimes.

Few pitchers throw a big breaking curveball anymore, which makes Kile's hook all the more impressive.

While the ending certainly falls prey to the sort of things the rest of the movie is subverting, it throws enough curveballs into the typical Hollywood romcom formula to feel fresh.

««Always expect curveballs» is something of a motto for us now.

«You'll think you thought of everything, and then a judge will throw you a total curveball,» said Kirk Ferrell, founder of Flat World Supply Chain and judge for multiple startup competitions.

That comedic curveball pitched your Miis as stars of their very own apartment - block drama — the funny little avatars based off your friends expressing their weirdest inner thoughts and enjoying unpredictable relationships.

And get ready for a new curveball — courtesy of your changing pregnancy hormones!

Funny, violent and lobbing narrative curveballs like a young Schwarzenegger tossing hand grenades, Blue Ruin exerts its tension so covertly you'll be shocked to discover that gasping noise in the cinema is being made by you.

Those little curveballs gave him the experience.

Prepare for life's eventual curveballs with an income plan that combines income from multiple sources to create a diversified income stream in retirement.

And he has a plus curveball....

In the mid-1980s, for instance, Dwight Gooden of the New York Mets dominated the National League with just two pitches: a fastball, which he usually threw high in the strike zone, and an overhand curveball with a big break.