Sentences with phrase «dreadful at»

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So, aside from the obvious fact that I'm dreadful at summing up a Mario experience despite and perhaps because of a strong affinity for the series, all I can really say is that this is the first of the new portable Mario platformers I'm likely to carry around for repeat sessions.

That's how I want to feel about every choice without being told, or seeing a meter go up — that when I least expect it, the waves I set in motion will roll back to shore and wash up something dreadful at my feet.

If it's done right, then they can remember their pet and all the good experiences, without something dreadful at the end.

Except this time, it doesn't seem very dreadful at all: reincarnated as the XE.

I understand the current Jimny is brilliant at off - roading and absolutely dreadful at everything else, and that makes me want to drive it all the more.

If pressing the same button over and over again, and beating the game in 10 minutes, with no other options to do after is fun to you, id say go for it... its dreadful at best.

Because I am DREADFUL at saving, and I need the flexibility to be able to make changes in my life if and when I want to... and if that includes moving, or changing my job, I'm going to need savings.

Good grief, so many homebirth advocates are really dreadful at reading comprehension.

My mind goes back to an own goal from Gianluca Festa winning the 2002 semi-final against Middlesbrough when a much better Arsenal team than the current crop were pretty dreadful at Old Trafford.

Ronaldo, however, was dreadful at the beginning of the campaign but has since managed to overtake Messi on 40 strikes for the season.

The Muscovites have been dreadful at home so far in their Champions League campaign as they were thrashed 4 - 1 by Manchester United and lost 2 - 0 to Basel.

As for West Ham, it only gets worse for Slaven Bilic as they looked dreadful at the back, and the jeers at full - time in an emptied - out London Stadium told the story as far as supporters are concerned as they continue to sit just above the relegation zone after 11 games.

So does Usain Bolt, He fails to get the ball under control and is forever falling over, dreadful at tracking back and as Alan Hanson mentioned many moons ago... «he crosses when he should shoot, poor football brain»... And finally he shoots by side footing the ball.

And where our overlaps on the flanks shame debuchy isn't fitter bellerin is dreadful at the moment.

It will be dreadful at first, and then after a few weeks, you'll find that you like it, that the pattern of it fills up something inside you.

Not exact matches

It hurts that such dreadful situations ignite people into action, but at the same time, that's exactly how I got started.

There are some non-financial issues with being in equities in late retirement — although there's a case to be made that staying on top of this helps retain intellectual facilities a bit if we look at Warren Buffet and his dreadful diet, looking at the state some people get into as they get older I'm not sure they should be licensed to drive an equity portfolio unless they can sit on their hands and let that nice Mr Vanguard sort out the rebalancing shenanigans...

The very appetite proceeding from labor and peace of mind is gone: we eat just enough to keep us alive: our sleep is disturbed by the most frightful dreams; sometimes I start awake, as if the great hour of danger was come; at other times the howling of our dogs seems to announce the arrival of the enemy: we leap out of bed and run to arms; my poor wife with panting bosom and silent tears takes leave of me, as if we were to see each other no more; she snatches the youngest children from their beds, who, suddenly awakened, increase with their innocent questions the horror of the dreadful moment.

It would be excellent to think that this book could help to dispel that dreadful waffle that replaces a homily and too often begins: «Urn... I was just thinking this morning, on my way here...» thus indicating that no real preparation has been done at all.

Stephen Fry speaking about atheists: «The glory — anything — we take credit for what is great about man and we take blame for what is dreadful about man, we neither grovel or apologise at the feet of a god, or are so infantile as to project the idea that we once had a father as human beings and we therefore should have a divine one too.

«I think everyone is very shaken up and very shocked at this really, really dreadful things that's happened,» Unger - Hamilton told Matt Connor.

Then there is the dreadful Mrs. Bouchie — she so despises the Dakota Territory that she threatens her husband at night with a butcher knife to demand that the family return east.

The child does not know what the dreadful is; this the man knows, and he shudders at it.

The child's imperfection consists, first of all, in not knowing what the dreadful is; and then again, as an implication of this, in shuddering at that which is not dreadful.

He can be sure that everything that can be said against him has been said, unsparingly, mercilessly — and to strive against the whole world is a comfort, to strive with oneself is dreadful — he has no reason to fear that he has overlooked anything, so that afterwards he must cry out as did King Edward the Fourth at the news of the death of Clarence:

But about this people concern themselves very little in our age which they think has reached the highest attainment, whereas in truth no age has so fallen victim to the comic as this has, and it is incomprehensible that this age has not already by a generatio aequivoca given birth to its hero, the demon who would remorselessly produce the dreadful spectacle of making the whole age laugh and making it forget that it was laughing at itself.

He has a presentiment of the dreadful event, that a jealous criticism will many a time let him feel the birch; he trembles at the still more dreadful thought that one or another enterprising scribe, a gulper of paragraphs, who to rescue learning is always willing to do with other peoples» writings what Trop «to save appearances» magnanimously resolved to do, though it were «the destruction of the human race» — that is, he will slice the author into paragraphs, and will do it with the same inflexibility as the man who in the interest of the science of punctuation divided his discourse by counting the words, so that there were fifty words for a period and thirty - five for a semicolon.

Dreadful imperfection will remain in persons and societies until our risen Lord Jesus returns at the Parousia to usher in the final consummation.

Was it not dreadful to sit at table with Him?

At the ultraviolent extremity would be acts, such as murder, which impose the will of the actor upon others with a dreadful finality.

Gives me hope that this dreadful cold weather will pass and summer will be at our doors soon xx

Anyone who has used nut milk in their java has experienced the dreadful, unsightly coagulation that happens when little bits start to gather at the bottom of the drink.

Nothing had changed in the dreadful cattle slaughter area at the abattoir either.»

For the umpteenth time since Louis van Gaal took over at Old Trafford, Manchester United looked truly dreadful in their midweek Champions League game and despite the fact that they are currently above us in the table, I just can not imagine that a team this dull and devoid of quality could win the league.

mour did not like hearing about how we where the best team in league for these months and in fact best in Europe at some stage, factor in how dreadful we started season off due to injuries WC hangover and transfer shortcomings and one may realise that che where very lucky.

He was dreadful last season, bar a few games at the end, he has been awful since the second half of the 13/14 season, and didn't do a lot before then either.

A supposed «legendary» manager of a world famous club who year after year does not even notice the dreadful defence and constant mistakes costing us many points, is a scandal at top level.

Looking at the table now, shows just how dreadful that Bournemouth game was.

Their squad doesn't actually look dreadful, or at least doesn't look this dreadful.

The Gunners look in dire need of strengthening at the back after a shambolic 3 - 0 Carabao Cup final defeat at the hands of Manchester City, during which Shkodran Mustafi made a dreadful error for the opening goal.

Liverpool's struggles this season have mainly been down to their dreadful away form, but at Anfield they have generally been pretty solid.

The forward's effort was a simple tap - in at the backpost after a fine cross from Santi Cazorla had split the (admittedly dreadful) Albion defence.

Linked with the likes of Napoli earlier the season, Mario Balotelli surely has no future at Liverpool after a dreadful first season at Anfield, scoring just one Premier League goal.

Well that was a bad day at the office, we played well for the most part but the finishing was pretty dreadful.

The initial deals the club did to secure funds to build the stadium were dreadful, I wrote about it at the time.

Everton look set for qualification from the group stages of the Europa League as they overwhelm Lille at Goodison Park, with some dreadful defending allowing Phil Jagielka to head home from the corner.

He admitted as much two days after a dreadful performance last week (four points, three rebounds) in a 106 - 97 loss at Sacramento: «This past week or so I came to realize that for the first time in my career I had let burnout affect me,» he said.

Well, at least we haven't lost or knocked out of a competition so its far from dreadful but we have finished 2nd in CL group (no way Lugororets will beat PSG) which means we will play a Top Team in next round.

English players paid the price for their dreadful performance at the World Cup as they were completely overlooked in the shortlist for the Fifa Ballon d'Or.