Sentences with phrase «curveball by»

Just when you think you've got everything all figured out, someone tosses you a curveball by reacting in... Read More

Therefore, Tadin explained, you have a better chance of hitting a curveball by realizing that our brains, like GPS, can lead us to «see» changes in speed or direction that don't actually occur when the ball moves from the center of our visual field to the periphery.

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?»

While Google threw a curveball by encrypting all of its keyword search data last fall, there are still other ways to track your site's traction.

Not exact matches

Creation from nothing, the origin of death among humans, the murder of Abel by Cain, a cataclysmic flood of judgement, the righteous judgement of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Mosaic origin of the Torah, manna from heaven, the reliability of Deuteronomy, the driving out of the Canaanites, Isaiah's authorship of the servant songs, and so on — it's almost as if Jesus and his followers went out of their way to validate all of the most awkward apologetic curveballs in the Old Testament just to make life difficult for post-Enlightenment Western interpreters.

Yet oddly enough — in another biblical curveball — the promise of God is fulfilled by a kingdom and its king, who brings with him nothing less than eternal life.

Mazzone had already helped him fix his mechanics (by being the first coach that let Smoltz throw the way he wanted to) and taught him a curveball back in the instructional league.

You can compare it to the Ted Williams [urban legend in baseball]-- they say he could see the stitching on the ball [of the incoming pitch] rotate, and that he would know by the rotation whether he was getting a fastball or a curveball.

The source of Koufax's skill was his legendary curveball, which some players claimed could suddenly dip by as much as 30 centimeters.

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.»

«We've found that the same algorithm that is used by GPS to track vehicles also explains why we perceive the curveball illusion.»

«Our research should not be interpreted by pitchers who may now think they can go out and throw 80 percent of curveballs and not be at risk of injury,» Dr. Moutzouros says.

ON FORWARD MOMENTUM ⚡ curveball of a Monday with circumstances which ask one to stay present, open to growing and adapting - today supported with an adaptogenic latte made by @houseofcitrine with macadamia nut milk and extra reishi!

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.

This year, in particular, has felt like an extended exercise in things - not - working - out - as - planned, so I suppose I should not have been surprised by yet another curveball late in the game.

Life threw me a curveball five years ago - my life plans were put on hold - by the grace of God?

By the time the film screams into its final act, Wright ramps up the action, throws in the odd curveball and lets the bullets fly.

Of course, the jury, this time around led by George Miller, threw us some real curveballs, but Cannes surprises when the Palme d'Or is given out is more or less par for the course.

Ben Affleck's maturity as a filmmaker in his own right is well documented, but there's a sense here that he's matured as an actor, too To begin with, his Nick is crumpled, defeated by life and this new curveball it has thrown him.

Fox Searchlight attempted to throw a curveball into the awards race by moving up the release date of its biopic Hitchcock, but when the film finally screened it was met with a rather lukewarm response overall.

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.

But Volkswagen, not content to hold even with Honda, threw a curveball this year by adding a couple of extra doors to its car, ending up with the four - door 2007 Volkswagen GTI.

This doesn't mean you can't surprise readers or even piss them off by throwing in a few curveballs — it simply means that all surprises and curveballs should be make sense within the world you've created.

Just when you think you're being guided by an omniscient narrator, author - illustrator Julia Sarcone - Roach throws you a curveball in this very funny picture book about the art of misdirection.

Just when we were thinking that Anne Rice, author of the Vampire Chronicles and other bestselling novels, might be seriously considering bringing out her next book as a Kindle exclusive, she's thrown us a bit of a curveball with the announcement by her literary agency that she'll be releasing, through Vook, a multimedia edition of «The Master of Rampling Gate,» a vampire story published in Redbook magazine in 1984 and set in an England mansion in the 19th century.

Just when we were thinking that Anne Rice, author of the Vampire Chronicles and other bestselling novels, might be seriously considering bringing out her next book as a Kindle exclusive, she's thrown us a bit of a curveball with the announcement by her literary agency that she'll be releasing, through Vook, a -LSB-...]

Thankfully, Bungie threw in a few curveballs that will require quick - thinking strategic decisions by you and your team.

Just when you start forgetting you are playing a Wolfenstein game the developers are quick to remind you by either throwing you a curveball in the form of dialogue or interactions, like when you interrogate a Nazi soldier in the basement after realizing the Nazis won the war back in WW2 with a chainsaw, or when you discover that you can click the bed and go into Nightmare mode which is basically Wolfenstein 3D which lets you play the game until you dies and this lets you back out into The World Order.

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.

Unless they throw us a curveball, it looks like music purchased outside of iTunes will not be supported by the service.

Whether challenged by anxiety, depression, addiction or stress, it all boils down to finding better ways to cope with life's curveballs.