Sentences with phrase «even going through the motions»

But then, for a team of United's ability, even going through the motions could mean grabbing a point or two at least.

When I see somebody pursuing objectives that, IMO, seem likely to support the socialist ideal, and they don't even go through the motions of claiming some essential «externality» in support, I suspect them of pursuing socialism.

I'm easing into the holidays this year... last year Dave, my husband, died and I didn't even go through the motions.

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Supervisors in organizations waste a lot of time and energy going through the motions of recognition and might even stir up negative reactions (cynicism and apathy) because their actions are not viewed as genuine.

Even if things don't go so well, you're still working towards your goal, still improving yourself simply by going through the motions.

What motions were you going through that were detrimental to your soul, your conscience, your intelligence, and even your health?

There's women who I'd bleed for, who look numb and empty and who are going through the brave motions because you've just got to do the next thing even when nothing feels like it's changing anything.

Going through the motions of attending a church and even set devotions is no guarantee of holiness: one must participate with the heart not go through the motions.

I'm happy to be wrong), and since the US is culturally rooted in Protestantism most Americans (even non-religious ones) associate «good» faith or spirituality with sincerity, and «bad» faith with «just going through the motions.»

/ Now list the religious beliefs, attitudes, and practices which no longer seem valid or important, even though you still go through the motions of paying them lip service.

If we're not careful, we'll find ourselves simply going through the motions, acting out of duty, obligation or even habit, instead of devotion.

If the alcoholic's initial motivation is inadequate and this is overlooked by the counselor, the usual result is that nothing productive occurs even though there may be an extensive exercise of «going through the motions» of counseling.

The point David and the others are making and the NT makes as well in reference to even Jesus is that you can go through all the motions of God given things (works!)

Alas, even some restaurants in Chinatown don't cook this dish right, and instead you get a bit of a soggy and oily dish where you know the person behind the wok was just going through the motions.

Man city are far from their best and even so there is no hunger from our players... Add the inevitable mistakes from the usual suspects and it looks like we are just going through the motions with no real desire... Any team with mustafi and xhaka as guaranteed starters has left the top flight in my books... The only positive we are still one nil down I would prefer to see some kind of attacking effort in second half and loose by 3 than this kind of blandness

The fight was stopped in the fifth round, not because Frazier had done great damage to Wipperman, but because Wipperman demonstrated a growing disinclination even to go through the motions of fighting.

He's appalled that he even has to go through such a motion.

it seems to me that players like Debuchy, Elneny, Walcott, Wilshere, Holding and even Giroud have just given up on ever being first - choice players again and are just going through the motions.

i can see wot you mean ice, there all like minded and all the same type player, evenin how easily they get injured, its mad... but im not sure where we would put def minded players in a system that has served us wel thus far, i just think the players we hav did nt work hard enough to getbehind the ball yesterday and alot of it was left to song whod been on intern duty and had travelled halfway round the world to get home, like i said i was hugely dissapointed with nasri, ros and ramsey who i felt did nt put in a shift worthy of beating such a resolute opponent, even AW was exasperated after the game and offered no excuse just that you cant expect to win games / leagues on this performance... when we go down i these games its always the same, with a whimper... there were 15 mins left when we conceded and you could be sure utd and chelsea woulda got their equaliser but we simply cant re-raise our game when wer only going through the motions in these games

As she has grown we have gone through gallons of bubble solutions, dozens of bubble toys and even learned the science behind bubbles and made slow - motion videos of water balloons bursting.

They make you go through the motions, even if your ex can not be located or is not in a...

Moreover, they quite conceivably might not be able to handle the idea of their beloved party going through the motions of a party conference in September, passing rule changes to turn back the clock to the 1980s, while a parallel Momentum conference is going on next door, with speakers who are far - left non-members, or even members of separate parties which stand against Labour.

Male Hawaiian crickets that have lost the ability to chirp still go through the motion of «singing», even though females can't hear them

If I'm gonna help patients get better, I got ta understand the latest and the greatest and the newest and even the oldest and — and if more doctors took time to take that on and take their jobs more seriously, I think a lot of doctors just get into this, you know, this regular routine of just cranking patients through a mill and not really seeing patients, not really hearing patients, just kinda of — just kind of going through the motions with patients.

Even varying reps, intensity, rest periods and style, you may find yourself just going through the motions and not enjoying your workouts the way you did before the novelty wore off.

You may even try going through the motions of strength training with no weight, since you're still lifting the weight of your arms and legs.

You go through the motions with your back training, hoping that somehow you'll get different results even though you're doing the same exercises over and over again.

The very very last thing that I add in and sometimes it can be a good 12 - 15 weeks before I add in this component is chronic competitive motion where it's okay, we're actually going out to go on a bike ride or swim or run or something that is metabolic conditioning roadwork because that's the stuff in someone that is overtrained who often times has their parasympathetic nervous system really really beat up you know, if you test their heart rate variability, the number called there high frequency is really really consistently low you know usually because there are triathletes or marathoners that's more often I'm dealing with those people with adrenal fatigue than I am with like a cross fitter who's kind of an opposite sympathetic nervous system fatigue issue but with those parasympathetic nervous fatigue, the last thing we add back in is the swimming and the biking and the running because it's important to realize that when you're trying to recover from adrenal fatigue or overtraining, even if you're doing like an easy swim or an easy bike ride or an easy run, if you're a triathlete or a marathoner or a swimmer or a cyclist, those easy sessions send a message to your body that you're training, that you're running from a lion and you still get that hormonal depletion and it's so easy for you to just turn into a depletion session and so that's the very very last thing that I'll add back in so that's kinda like the crow's eye view of you know, the type of things that I'll implement in a program for overtraining recovery, you know and you know, this is something that people hire me to walk them through.

We go through the motions, we do what we think we're supposed to do (or heck, even what we know we're supposed to do to at least just get the job done), and we expect results to be per usual.

Allow yourself to be supported by your friends, even if you're just going through the motions because it helps you jumpstart yourself into a new rhythm.

I can not imagine any men who behave like this can keep a woman around for more than five minutes, even if offered countless thousands upon thousands a month unless they are escorts going through the motions just so they can leave.

Forster seems to be going through the motions when it comes to the requisite action set pieces, checking them off dutifully even as he ignores every opportunity to make them visually or thematically exciting.

I couldn't even tell you the film's climax because it just seemed like they were going through the motions and it just eventually ended.

A cheap, clunky sequel to 2006's videogame adaptation Silent Hill, this programmatic follow - up goes through all the genre motions with the passion, commitment and attention to detail of a teenager cycling through a laundry list of mandated chores prior to an evening out.

The cast seems to be going through the motions, with even the generally reliable Watts never moving much beneath the surface of her frustrated housewife (and, sorry, but it's hard to buy Brolin as a frustrated novelist).

Although he created the series and has penned every instalment to date, Australian actor and screenwriter Leigh Whannell appears to be going through the motions with the flimsy narrative, even when he tries to step into more thematically interesting territory.

Numbly going through the motions of the evening, she finally falls asleep on the couch with their wedding picture grasped in her arms.

Even though some of Sandler's early work was idiotic, at least one got the feeling that he was trying to entertain and not just going through the motions.

«as he goes through the motions of what is expected, and while playing he even counts down to punching the doctor in the face, which of course he does, not out of aggression, but almost like he is still playing the part.

Even if he's entering his 60s, Brosnan still has what it takes to deliver as an action star, though he does feel like old news, and the thrill is mostly gone in seeing him going through familiar motions.

While it isn't a great performance by most traditional measures, it likely would have been an action star - making turn, as Lee not only has the athletic physical attributes to convincingly go through the motions of the fight choreography, there is an innate sense of goodness and sensitivity in his demeanor that makes for a fine romantic hero, even though he looks like the inspiration of Heath Ledger's Joker from The Dark Knight and he's got murder on his mind.

At Hollywood News, Sean O'Connell notes that «you know exactly what you are going to get from [the] film before you even step foot in the theater» and that «the picture is going through the motions.»

Even though the content may vary from course to course, the overall structure and layout remains constant, and as a result, employees might feel they are going through the motions again.

Even the major Publishers have an issue and setup their own sites to report this so that they go through the motions of having the sites involved reported to sources such as Google and taken down.

They just go through the motions, exercise after exercise, even if the dog or handler is doing it wrong, repetition after repetition of bad handling and mistakes.

Even cats without claws will go through some scratching motions.

Despite its own rather repetitive nature the many varied locales manage to keep things fun even though you're going through the same motions, and it has a strange, compelling rhythm that kept me playing for hours on end.

I've forgotten how much fun leaping through the air in slow motion was and from what I've seen of Max Payne 3 is going to be making bullet time even more badass.

They even claim that they are recycled, although I suspect they are just going through the motions; you don't get much value out of pulping seven layers of plastic and paper.

However, users can reduce animation effects caused by parallax by going through Reduce Motion within accessibility settings but even after reducing animation, sickness is reported by some users.