Sentences with phrase «drier than my sense»

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But according to interviews with more than a dozen people, Mr. Houston — a private man with a love of 1990s rock and business books — built his company with an easygoing management style and a dry sense of humor, which helped him deal with the bumps along the way.

Their religion was like a dried flower pressed in a Bible, and often seemed to consist of nothing more than a desire for peaceful feelings, a vague longing to be connected with something that transcends the self and a sense of obligation to be decent to their fellows — all positive stirrings, but hardly the vigorous plant that could flourish in a nurturing religious community.

While the wet method of caramel makes more sense to me than this dry method, I'm willing to give the dry method a try on my electric stovetop.

That's why it makes sense to follow the brand or the manufacturer's care recommendations and not simply advice you see floating around the internet (boil vs. don't boil, tumble dry vs. line dry, don't buy TPU because it delaminates more easily, etc. etc.) Sarah, a veteran cloth diaper maker and seller of DiaperFab textiles told me, «The quality of any fabric depends so much more on where you're getting it from than on what the person selling it to you chooses to call it.»

One follows him eagerly when he explores the neurophysiology of laughter or allows himself to be inserted into a magnetic resonance imaging machine reminiscent of an «oversized clothes drier,» where «the space itself is astonishingly small, and the sense of being encased in a huge piece of machinery unsettles more than you think it will.»

You need a functioning sense of smell to properly taste flavor, but when you're on an airplane, the dry cabin air inhibits our odor receptors causing food to taste a bit blander than what we're used to.

Some days / weeks / months will be drier than others, in every sense.

It may be that you've failed to mention some of your really good points, or that you've been too dry with your sense of humour or have been a bit too specific in highlighting the kinds of people you don't want to date, rather than those you do!.

Jeremy Irons gives his Alfred Pennyworth an even drier sense of humor and less sympathetic ear than Michael Caine did.

If director Paul Andrew Williams tries too hard to apply a familiar sense of dry humour to the proceedings (landing closer to last year's eye - roller Severance than to anything Edgar Wright has ever done), he finds his calling in the fine art of overcompensation: throw enough severed body parts around and scream «fucking cunt» to the rafters as many times as possible and perhaps everyone will forget that you don't have much to say at all.

Worryingly, though, the film doesn't provide much beyond the level of watching paint dry, and its overwhelming sense of been here before «indie - ness» prevails more than anything else.

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As we bring our Best of 2014 series to a close, our final selection comes from executive director Patricia Maloney, who writes, «Is there a more succinct and scathing critique of institutional staunchness — in the dried up, weary etymological sense of the word — than the one Adam Rompel lobs at the Tate Britain?

But there's a dry wit to his work that makes it more than mere posturing; his sense of reality is tough and thought - provoking.

Yet it contains the art of today within it: installation and performance, and the sense that art can be anything, absolutely anything, are more eloquently embodied in Pollock's liberating vision than in any number of dry remarks Duchamp once made to some fawning interviewer.