Sentences with phrase «even root for»

Trying to grasp him, or even root for him, the mind skitters like a spider in a sink.

By the end of this hilarious and fascinating movie, you will respect Tonya Harding and maybe even root for her, thanks to Rogers» tongue - in - cheek writing and Robbie's tenacious turn as the redneck figure skater turned American icon.

Going into it, I had a sense of hope that Martin Campbell, director of two of the better action outings in the late 90s, GOLDENEYE and THE MASK OF ZORRO, might be able to pull off a miracle and make O'Donnell someone you might even root for at some point during the film, instead of the usual hoping that he will fall to a grisly death during every frame of cellulose in which he is depicted.

Sometimes, we even root for them to win at the expense of everyone and everything else in their life as a symptom of our culture's obsession with success.

Kutcher and Kunis watch «The Bachelor» and «The Bachelorette» just like the rest of us and even root for their faves.

I grew up a Giants and A's fan, had season tickets for both B.A. teams, even rooted for the Giants at the 1989 W.S., but I would be dishonoring my father and the great game of baseball if I supported a team whose owners biggest fear is baseball having a level playing field!

Getting excited about that or even rooting for that doesn't make you some sort of fanboy.

In all honesty, there were times when I was even rooting for Thanos to succeed in gathering Infinity Stones.

How could stocks ever again become marked up in dramatic fashion once investors stopped even rooting for price markups?

Not exact matches

Even as Price climbed the corporate ladder, he never stopped rooting for his fellow entrepreneurs up north.

Even though its roots are planted firmly in the mystique of its uncompromising off - roading prowess, the G - Wagon has now become the SUV of choice for the posh suburbanite or the Hollywood starlet looking for something «different».

And Marathon barely did any actual clinical legwork to get the drug cleared for Duchenne — it relied on 1990 - era clinical trial data before tacking on just enough study material to win an approval that doesn't even address the root cause of the disease.

The club owners even started to root for us to get out of the circuit and represent the best rock had to offer from the New York and New Jersey area.

Find a way to get the audience rooting for you, even if they don't agree with your thoughts.

As to the increase in numbers, a little reflection should persuade even those Jews who, like Professor Namier, think of numbers as dangerous («to a nation rooted in its own soil... they mean strength and security, but for us, outside Palestine, they have always constituted a danger») that the danger here is more apparent than real.

«Even when he's playing nasty or flawed characters, you find yourself rooting for him,» said Rentrak senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian.

I say «curious» because Marathon came under intense scrutiny for its initial plans to hike the drug's price to $ 89,000 per year even though it's available for a mere pittance in other countries (and doesn't actually address the root causes of Duchenne, but rather just some of its muscle - wasting symptoms).

The idea for the conference is rooted in the fact that this long bull market has inflicted absolute carnage on short sellers, and even seasoned veterans are throwing in the towel.

So what Gerecht seems to be talking himself towards is the idea that now that the coup has occurred the slender opportunity for liberal democracy to take root and grow in Egypt, and perhaps even in the entire Islamic world, given the now - evident failure of the Ataturk project in Turkey, has passed.

Such identification is the theme of a famously influential essay by Lynn White, Jr. in the March 1967 issue of Science magazine entitled «The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis,» an essay which prompted a reply by Thomas Derr in the January 1975 issue of Worldview magazine — which Richard Neuhaus, then a political liberal, edited even before he edited This World, the immediate predecessor of First Things — entitled «Religion's Responsibility for the Ecological Crisis: An Argument Run Amok.»

Even when Christians are able to root out of their prayers all the repetitious mentioning of «Father» and «in Jesus» name,» it is still quite common for most Christians to end their prayers with the word, ``... in Jesus» name, Amen.»

Now, in New York, I root for the Mets and (yes, I confess it) even for the Yanks.

I struggle with infidelity as a plot point to cheer for and so I appreciated the juxtaposition of an affair to «root for» and one to despise but even so, it was fascinating and un-put-down-able, too.

So despite the fact that I believe human life is inherently valuable even in its earliest form, I only feel a little guilty voting for pro-choice candidates because I'm often convinced they will do more to address the root causes of abortion — poverty, health care, education, etc..

We can trace these explanations back even further, finding (hopefulyl) ways to intervene, improve, comfort and prevent — but we can't ultimately account for the root cause.

The «root» of anyone's» frailties is found in either fearing GOD or denying GOD even though there is a third way, «Loving GOD for HIS Tenderness and much Mercy in giving Us All our spiritual and social and cultured freedoms!».

This broadening of the cultural appropriateness of sex is inexorable because the ideology that sex is primarily for loving, which is its root cause, has become unquestionable, even inside the Church.

I have met here the church not only in its geographical outreach but also in its historical roots — seeing, for example, the rich traditions of the Orthodox Church, the universality of the Roman Catholic Church (even though it is based in the Vatican), the reconciling positioning of the Anglican Communion, the dynamic vitality of African independent churches, and so on.

• A grotesque misunderstanding of «tolerance» and «fairness,» rooted in an even more comprehensive delusion about what makes for human happiness, which isn't «I did it my way.»

The Christian Science Monitor: All politics is local, even the US election as seen by Kenyans Kenyans are closely watching the US presidential election, with two groups in particular rooting for each of the candidates.

I know crazy but its something to think about since there is no ultimate explanation as to why we even exist, even if you take science to its root there is no explanation for why anything actually exists at all, after all you can't get something from nothing so I had rather have something than nothing.

There is a way, even when things are as light as can be, in which the life - wasting potentialities of cult - dom are never lost sight of, and in which we wind up rooting for our cult - creators to find some semblance of happiness amid the absurd wreckage of life they've unleashed.

As to method, the older view was rooted in the traditional ecclesiastical theory of Mark's derivation from Matthew — which modern Synoptic study completely reverses — and it took for granted a conception of «Paulinism» which made the Apostle to the Gentiles responsible for everything in primitive Christianity which could not be squared with a crass, reactionary Christian Judaism; it completely ignored the development of a Gentile type — or types — of Christianity apart from and even prior to the work of Paul.

His name was David Belden Lyman: I'd never known of this family connection, even though my own roots go back to the same Connecticut landscape that produced this early volunteer for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

No particular dogma or ceremony is required; you don't even have to root for him by name, practice alone is the gateway.

But if this is true of «ordinary» species, what duration may we not look for in the case of Man, that favored race which, by its intelligence, has succeeded in removing all danger of serious competition and even in attacking the causes of senescence at the root.

Johnson, out of his own liberal roots, spoke boldly of building the Great Society, but the streets of this land were increasingly unsafe even for the president, who more and more found himself to be a virtual prisoner in the White House.

What I am saying is that all we have are ancient writings for a religion that has its roots in even more unfounded mythology.

Even though alcoholism ranks as one of the country's three major health problems, along with cancer and heart disease; even though it accounts for approximately 98,000 deaths every year; even though it is the root cause of most pastoral - care crises (suicides, auto fatalities, child abuse, divorces, hospital admissions, accidental deaths and home violence); even though it costs the nation $ 120 billion annually in terms of lost work time, health and welfare benefits, property damage, medical expenses, insurance and lost wages; and even though its effects impair the educational process of every child in every classroom, still the church acts as though alcoholism does not exEven though alcoholism ranks as one of the country's three major health problems, along with cancer and heart disease; even though it accounts for approximately 98,000 deaths every year; even though it is the root cause of most pastoral - care crises (suicides, auto fatalities, child abuse, divorces, hospital admissions, accidental deaths and home violence); even though it costs the nation $ 120 billion annually in terms of lost work time, health and welfare benefits, property damage, medical expenses, insurance and lost wages; and even though its effects impair the educational process of every child in every classroom, still the church acts as though alcoholism does not exeven though it accounts for approximately 98,000 deaths every year; even though it is the root cause of most pastoral - care crises (suicides, auto fatalities, child abuse, divorces, hospital admissions, accidental deaths and home violence); even though it costs the nation $ 120 billion annually in terms of lost work time, health and welfare benefits, property damage, medical expenses, insurance and lost wages; and even though its effects impair the educational process of every child in every classroom, still the church acts as though alcoholism does not exeven though it is the root cause of most pastoral - care crises (suicides, auto fatalities, child abuse, divorces, hospital admissions, accidental deaths and home violence); even though it costs the nation $ 120 billion annually in terms of lost work time, health and welfare benefits, property damage, medical expenses, insurance and lost wages; and even though its effects impair the educational process of every child in every classroom, still the church acts as though alcoholism does not exeven though it costs the nation $ 120 billion annually in terms of lost work time, health and welfare benefits, property damage, medical expenses, insurance and lost wages; and even though its effects impair the educational process of every child in every classroom, still the church acts as though alcoholism does not exeven though its effects impair the educational process of every child in every classroom, still the church acts as though alcoholism does not exist.

They are resilient, for they have been nourished and nurtured with a consistent love, and even in the dry season their roots sink deep and drink from the underground spring that refreshes and renews them.

But maturity demands sexual behavior that is motivated by respect for persons, even in psychoanalytic terms, a significant testimony to the purpose of sex as it is rooted in the nature of man, which is in turn grounded in the reality of creation.10

Even if you're not one for network sitcoms, there's a reason to root for Roseanne to break beyond the typical audiences for laugh - track shows.

Drunk and in temperamental stupors are the emotionally fallen within biblically jewish - rooted christiandumbs folds becoming sciatic pragmatisms unworthy of even one toasting for, but rather for the many to be rightly toasting against!»

Many attendees expected or even welcomed nuclear war as a sign of the Second Coming (Larry Jones, Evangelicals for Nuclear War, Covert Action: The Roots of Terrorism, Ocean).

This brings us to an even more important reason for the current interest in the new millennium, one which has very ancient roots.

Was it necessary even before man could take any steps towards the good, even for preparing the heart for full grace to take root there?

Even so, we are far more likely to paint for our readers a broad range of figurative meaning by keeping close to the literal field wherein that meaning takes root and flourishes, than by dispensing with the literal, and losing it and much of the figurative to boot.

Only the root is ever used, as an part of the aromatic mirepoix in almost any soup and sometimes raw as a salad, with mayo, or even without, just dressed with some lemon juice; grated apple is also added, or carrot for a mixed salad.

-- and yet I got shingles, AKA a super painful, non-contagious reawakening of the varicella (AKA chickenpox) virus in your dorsal root ganglion (nerve roots) that emerges as an excruciating and somewhat debilitating rash (that can be very dangerous, even deadly, for immunocompromised individuals).

It's probably because these vivid roots contain more sugar than any other vegetable (well, except for beets, and even sugar won't get most kids to eat beets).