Sentences with phrase «diddling around»

Father's rights groups (pushing joint custody to minimize their financial obligations) and lawyers and psychologists (who make money diddling around with people's lives in never - ending «therapeutic jurisprudence») heralded the case as a «revisitation of Burgess.»

That's good when you're just diddling around on the site with disposable ducats to burn, but finding something to fit your movie mood isn't a exactly intuitive.

«And it's that people have been diddling around with carrots for a thousand years.»

Annie Dillard, in her classic Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, writes: Thomas Merton wrote, «There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy - bitsy statues.»

Since then, we mostly get wives who live in a cloud of oblivion while their husbands diddle around and try to find themselves.

Not exact matches

I rally don't know what is going on with Mr Wenger he let jensen go to spurs and now he is diddling his finger around It looking like «we didn't find the quality striker we needed» we have a tough start with new shrewd managers around by October we could be in the relegation zone God forbid I recommend we voice our concern now rather in the middle of the competition so not to embarrass our selves in front of our opponents in the stands

Following Roy's recipe, you can get a reasonable - looking fit to data with very little fine - tuning because Roy has given himself a lot of elbow room to play around in: you have the choice of any two variability indices among dozens available, you make an arbitrary linear combination of them to suit your purposes, you choose whatever mixed layer depth you want, and you finish it all off by allowing yourself the luxury of diddling the initial condition.