Sentences with word «eyebrows»

Still, the sudden nature of Epting's departure had raised eyebrows, said Camille Lewis, a...

How do we live in a culture that rushes by the church and either yawns with boredom or wrinkles its eyebrows with cynicism?

This raised a few eyebrows when my parents married back in the 60s in my father's white ultra middle - class... More

A gathering of people whose main desire is to raise eyebrows.

For generations the Israelites clung, as it were, by their eyebrows to a small section of the hill country of Ephraim amid bitter enemies — Ammonites and Moabites, to the east; the Philistines invading the seacoast lands to the west; the Amorites still possessing a score of strong towns and the farm lands around them.

Their book may in turn raise the eyebrows of some scholars.

«Jesus picked the one term that was really going to raise eyebrows.»

HF: Notre Dame certainly has changed since my freshman year; there have been some administrative decisions that have emerged along the way that make me raise my eyebrows and wonder what direction we are headed in as a university.

Even now, all these years later, when I say the word in my «of - course» tone of voice, it can be met with disbelief or nervous laughter or raised eyebrows and, almost always, surprise.

Dr Janet Smith, on the Catholic World Report website, gave what may be something like an authoritative commentary (worth reading at much greater length than I can quote it here) on the particular example the Pope chose, one which caused a considerable raising of eyebrows.

The New York - based Catholic League raised its eyebrows at a 1998 episode featuring this exchange in the Simpsons» car while driving home from a church service:

Brian's eyebrows nearly hit his hairline when I told him a bit about the whole fall - out of an offensive post, and the subsequent challenging (read: crazy - making) discussion spinning out of control.

I can't help myself, I'm my own mother's daughter: so while I have a chance, I'll hold her and trace her eyebrows with my thumb, I'll sing old Keith Green songs like «Oh, Lord, you're beautiful» into her dark bedroom like a lullaby until she's asleep again.

The gangsta rap legend released a 32 - track gospel project called Bible of Love in late March that has garnered rave reviews from secular media outlets and raised eyebrows from some churchgoers.

The Brooklyn billboard is likely to raise eyebrows among Jews, in part because Orthodox Jews don't write out the name of God, as the billboard does.

The band has thrived in the five boroughs and made it as much a part of their identity as Snoop made Los Angeles a part of his, so eyebrows were raised when they announced they were relocating to Nashville.

When you kept refilling my glass, I asked if you were trying to take advantage of me and you waggled your eyebrows at me: «absolutely.»

they would ask with their eyebrows raised.

Let's see, eyes are different, nose is different, cheeks are different, chins are different, lips are different, eyebrows and forehead are different, and moles are way different.

She was staring at a patch of carpet in front of her, with her eyebrows raised in that half - hypnotized look that warned me to move slowly.

The reason the casting decision raises my eyebrows is because I thought Satan was supposed to be an approachable, attractive, beguiling human specimen.

Give to Caesar what is his, namely, everything there is.I see a lot of eyebrows raised.Let's check the books.

What raised eyebrows about these demands was not their size but the fact that they came from an ethnic group, rather than a nation or state, and a group which was asking that its ethnic identity become the basis for the reparations.

I read it (although I didn't have an early copy claiming ``... the church has no right to exist» which would have raised even my hypokinetic eyebrows) and didn't find it to be heretical.

Why else would we have eyebrows?

Eyebrows serve several functions: To keep dust and dirt from falling into our eyes.

The modern firing of Dale Tallon as normal manager on the Chicago Blackhawks elevated eyebrows around the NHL, earning the club specifically, team president John McDonough scorn for your callous treatment of Tallon, who was moved towards situation of senior advisor because of the club.

You make me laugh and you make me think hard and new, your eyes follow only me when we walk through a crowded room, we can have entire conversations using just our eyebrows and the corner of my mouth, we laugh about how tired we are sometimes.

In the paragraph where I first assumed that the person (referred to as «no one») in John 6:44, 65 DOES NOT HAVE the inherent ability to accept or reject God's call / drawing and then, secondly, assumed that the person (referred to as «no one») in John 6:44, 65 DOES HAVE the inherent ability to accept or reject God's call / drawing is an interpretive approach that I find causes some Christians eyebrows to rise in surprise.

Brian's eyebrows nearly hit his hairline when I told him a bit about the whole fall - out of an offensive post, and the subsequent challenging (read: crazy - making)...

Thank you for my arched eyebrows, I'll give you a high - five and a good - on - ya because we've never had to pluck an eyebrow and that's all on you.

If I say I love my wife, but later I say I want to «use her» to raise my kids, you would rightly raise your eyebrows.

Basically, it's the eyebrows.

He raised eyebrows across the country when he responded to Shane Claiborne's invitation to prayer with a threat of arrest.

There are visual gags (the aforementioned tighty - whiteys, but also Jesse Pinkman's fall - off - the - roof introduction, the cancer doctor's mustard stain and the car wash owner's swear - inducing eyebrows), but also zingers (the banter between Walt and Jesse is instantly electric, the dialogue between Walt and Skyler instantly ingratiating).

(CNN)- A member of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela and follower of Hugo Chavez is raising eyebrows for changing the words of the Lord's Prayer to honor the late president.

Eyebrows were raised because Nunes had served as an advisor to President Trump's campaign, but the investigation falls under the House Intelligence Committee, so officials were content to let it slide.

Shintaro Ishihara — the governor of Tokyo and a devotee of the Shinto religion — raised eyebrows in a press conference when he questioned the disaster and blamed his people for it.

The selection alone might be enough to raise eyebrows in some quarters: can we really learn anything from Friedrich Schleiermacher?McDermott answers with a cautious «yes,» patiently discerning the shape of their central ideas while pointing out minefields as they arise.

Only occasionally does some piece of personal description raise our hopes that it may conceivably be based on a true reminiscence, e.g. that Justus Barsabas (cf. Acts 1:23) was flatfooted, and that Paul was «a man short of stature, thin - haired upon the head, crooked in the legs, well - built, with eyebrows joining, and nose somewhat hooked, full of grace» (Acts of Paul).

(raising her eyebrows and leaning forward).

But when we start loving our enemies, and doing good to those who hate us, and giving to those who want to steal from us, then the eyebrows pop up, the mouth hangs open and the whispers start spreading.

It's a pathway that's been a dismal cul - de-sac since around 1990, which is why the frontal lyrical offense of Cee Lo Green's big hit last year (its music is pretty darn good) scarcely raised our eyebrows.

But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built into character, disappointments have been turned into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.

I see a lot of eyebrows raised.

It sure does raise some eyebrows from other bar patrons though.

One of the crosses we are called to take up and bear for Christ by God's help is fidelity to conviction in spite of lifted eyebrows and the curt or sneering remarks of friends.

When I describe to him my idea that the typical techie is an engineer looking for the rules of the universe, he raises his eyebrows.

Here's my favorite all - purpose prayer that's sure to raise eyebrows at X-Mas dinner or any other time for that matter...

Or are they just calling themselves by his name just to raise eyebrows?