"Double take" means to take a quick second look at something or someone because you are surprised or confused by what you saw.
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Upon hearing my greeting a bunch of kids at school
did double takes and looked at me oddly.
Ever watched a film only to
double take when the director's name appears in the credits?
Not only will you look shockingly put together but I can promise you a few
double takes on the street!
These are places where viewers are forced to do internal
double takes in their brains to render the familiar walls and pillars that hold up their own dream / nightmare - like buildings.
Double Take displays the profiles of matches and allows the user to like or remove the profile, with a continuous flow of potential dates.
The former is usually good for an
amused double take; the latter asks us to think hard about how we look at art and how it is presented.
After a while, you begin seeing the same responses from people, that stop and
double take when they see books.
If there is jealousy, it might result from upperclassmen doing
double takes at the I [Heart] REX T - shirts that are moving briskly in Lexington and other signs of Chapman adulation.
do you feel like you get a lot
of double takes wearing a sheer shirt in Europe?
Panel Discussion:
Double Take With Roberta Allen, Sharon Butler, Carol Diehl, Douglas Florian, and Geoffrey Young The National Arts Club April 17, 2018 8:00 PM Free and open to the public
Plenty of people did a genuine
double take after hearing Representative Joe Barton (R - Texas) apologize to BP after Obama arranged for the oil company to create a $ 20 billion fund to pay for the damage it's caused.
But this one is certain to cause
double takes if it happens to be hanging at the local multiplex.
At the annual Detroit Auto Show it accounted
for double takes and dropped jaws.How nice is it?The Sceptre looks as if it should be carrying a Pontiac nameplate because the design is so aggressive and sporty.
Alfred Hitchcock in Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Number Twenty - Two Still
from DOUBLE TAKE by Johan Grimonprez, 2009 80 minutes digital beta edition of 15 JG - 5
I can't tell you how
many double takes this color and new shape of the dress received while walking down Brickell Ave in Miami.
Starwood Preferred Guest members who register for the
SPG Double Take promotion by 15 March will get double base Starpoints for their first three stays before 15 April.
SHORT TAKES Anton Chekhov's The Duel by Nicolas Rapold, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo by Nicolas Rapold, Best Worst Movie by Laura Kern,
Double Take by Chris Chang, Mademoiselle Chambon by Laura Kern, Solitary Man by Chris Chang
The animal welfare community did a
collective double take at the recent announcement that Ed Sayres, retired CEO of the ASPCA, lifelong animal welfare advocate and professional, was named as the new president and CEO of a Washington, D.C. - based lobbying group, the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC).
Not Your Mother's
Double Take Dry Finish Texture Spray: I discovered this product last spring and I'm obsessed!
Double Take looks at the theme of appropriation and at different ways it has been exploited in photography by different generations of creatives.
In 2009, Grimonprez
made Double Take, which targets the global rise of «fear - as - commodity.»
Not a few veteran art world observers did
double takes upon learning that Matta died only a few years back — in 2001 at the age of 91.
After speaking with Stephanie, I took action on her suggestions and was able to transition to a job where I have shorter hours,
almost doubled my take home pay, have a shorter commute, a better work environment, and better benefits.
Football fans across the state did a collective
double take Sept. 8, when Sac - Joaquin Section results revealed the biggest NorCal upset of the season, a 20 - 7 takedown of St. Mary's - Stockton by Central Catholic - Modesto.
Friday July 27 Tubman Mahan Gallery (6:30 pm to 8:30 pm) Russ McIntosh's
Double Take solo first solo exhibition at the gallery features digital images that challenge the viewer to look beyond the initial composition and see beyond the original composition.
Surrealist Worlds introduces Surrealist thinking and its influence on current artistic practice
Double Take explores the «making strange» of everyday realities.
Not without humor,
DOUBLE TAKE invites the viewer to question today's hegemony of the image, the truth and lies of reality and its influence on our society, politics and culture.
Bred by Dr. Tom Ranney in North Carolina,
Double Take quince has huge double flowers and nary a thorn in sight.
Johan Grimonprez's latest
work Double Take (2009) is part of the Magasin 3 collection and is here presented for the first time at an institution in Europe.
By showing Gertrude Jekyll's photographs alongside work by contemporary
artists Double Take: Photography and the Garden will explore the richness of Jekyll's artistic vision and her enthusiastic embrace of photography's potential.
In fact, the
last doubling took place after the November 1999 «finding of fact» in which Penfield ruled, «Microsoft Corp. is a monopoly with practices that wounded competition and consumers and hurt innovation.»
I'm still not entirely sure what happened next, because like I said, my viewing was cut off early in the second half and only resumed after the proverbial score
box double take moment.
And at one high point in the comedy, Sargent does the impossible: he plays a scene against Ellsworth, who does a
doggie double take that would steal anybody's show, and Sargent still wins.
Rodriguez gave a tell -
tale double take in the linesman's direction but led the celebrations as soon as he saw the flag would not be raised against him.
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