Sentences with phrase «faux pas at»

But it'll save you from making a faux pas at the next block party.

Okay, but what should you do if you're one of those unfortunate souls whose one - time faux pas at work went viral?

I committed a holiday faux pas at my cousin's annual Christmas gathering.

After Harvey's faux pas at the end of 2015, Chabil Mar's marketing manager Larry France heartily recommended that the celebrity host and presenter come visit Placencia and enjoy a delicious cocktail at the resort.

But I guess they must have been a fashion faux pas at some point, because now they're back?

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Perhaps the worst LinkedIn profile pic faux pas is failing to post one at all.

We'll get into more detailed style advice when looking at our top picks, but let's knock one faux pas out right away: Don't try and match your pocket square to your tie.

Made fun of as a fashion faux pas due to the shoe's clunky, clog - like design, Crocs expanded its product line to include 300 varieties of flats, wedges, boots and even golf shoes priced at $ 25 to $ 60.

The much - hyped wearable - faux - pas bombed as a consumer offering — and, at least in the popular imagination, has joined the grand pantheon of flopdom alongside such legendary names as New Coke and the Edsel.

«It's starting to add up after the fourth or fifth faux pas,» says Gerard Francis Corbett, a branding instructor at University of California - Berkeley Extension.

The problem is so pervasive that a Tumblr site, «Selfies at Serious Places» is dedicated to such faux pas.

At least she picked up on the live TV faux pas, and hopefully saved this dad's career.

In fact, Bratton recently ran into Tom Selleck at Elio's and pointed out to his friend, who plays a New York City police commissioner on CBS's «Blue Bloods,» that his character's wearing of a uniform is a procedural and sartorial faux pas.

Prior to the apology, there were reports he had been summoned at the Flagstaff over the faux pas, since many Ghanaians have called for his dismissal over the comments largely considered divisive and irresponsible.

After an intensive course of lessons, I became reasonably incompetent at Italian, which, coupled with a misplaced confidence in my new language skills, led to some interesting faux pas.

Ever since I started working, I have steered clear of sheer shirts, because they require a camisole underneath and, for work, a cardigan or blazer to cover up the bra and cami straps (a bra strap showing at work is a big fashion faux pas, in my opinion).

Gone are the days of Bridget Jones - style rubber tubing — you can now find products that control unsightly bulges and look great at the same time, so there's no excuse for lingerie - related faux pas.

If you haven't noticed, I'm not the best at accessorizing — actually I'm the worst, which is a major blogger faux pas because I have no #armcandy.

And my most eloquent travel guide, at the time, had schooled me before landing in Auckland and Sydney, and I still made some verbal faux - pas.

There's one other common first date faux pas that, surprisingly, isn't as bad as many etiquette experts make out — at least, not if you are dating an English speaker!

Above all though, leave your comedy slogan t - shirt at home: «funny» shirts are considered the ultimate date fashion faux - pas there is, putting off 57 % of NZ singles.4

While it's true you want to give your potential date a good sense of who you are, there are some definite faux pas that you should avoid at all costs.

If there was no one to tell you no, no boundaries or barriers or faux pas or structure or indeed, no one at all, what would you do?

That's interesting, as I never thought of it as being potentially ethically dubious; more - so a professional faux - pas at best (like lying on a resume for example) to being borderline pathetic at worst (it just reeks of narcissism and insecurity).

The film's most glaring, factual faux pas is that while Wiley College did, in fact, participate in the championships finals that year, its opponent was not Harvard at all, but USC.

Unfortunately, the actresses scored a fashion faux pas when they arrived to the Santa Monica ceremony in outfits that were a little too garish, while Elisabeth Moss was at the opposite end of the spectrum in a seriously lacklustre frock.

Red dominated the red carpet at this year's Oscars, but who carried it off in style and which stars made a fashion faux pas?

Laird's inability to restrain himself from his excessive use of profanity and sharing inappropriate details that might be considered «faux pas» at best makes him extremely unlikable.

Granted that the star commits a fair few faux pas in the style department, she is the golden girl in the front row at LFW and has re-ignited our love of the classic trench.

If we hear about them at all in the press, it's usually to illustrate their dangers, with stories of online sexual predators, cyber bullying, or a job application faux pas when a potential employer rescinds a job offer based on embarrassing online photos or comments.

We're still not too excited about the rear camera on a tablet, though at 7 - inches it's less a faux pas that a 10 - incher.

Investors make common mistakes at the best of times, but the risk of committing one of these six faux pas increases when stock markets swing and fear sets in, says Allan Small, senior investment adviser at Allan Small Financial Group a division of HollisWealth.

Here are five faux pas commonly made at dog parks.

For a long time, the subject of marketing has been (at the very least) a faux pas in veterinary circles.

At least a few of those faux pas were scripted.

A faux - pas: nipping (even softly) at the sheep, to get them to move.

«It's not necessarily a faux pas to email a curator to ask for a studio visit without knowing them, but as an artist, I would make sure that my work and the ideas at play in my work resonate with the activities of the curator (exhibitions, writing, etc.) that I'm approaching.

Being aware of the artificiality and role play within fashion, Bircken's use of wool, branches and stones — materials with an inherent air of authenticity — at first seems to be a faux pas.

As the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung's Niklas Maak reports, Germany's newly - appointed cultural minister Bernd Neumann made a faux - pas by announcing that the Hamburger Bahnhof had acquired Andy Warhol's Big Electric Chair for a sum that has been estimated at over $ 5 million ($ 6.3 million).

The Existential Void (2012) takes a jab at the intellectual classicism of the art world, declaring itself a «META pot» and pointing out the art - culture faux pas «Picasso napkin syndrome.»

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS and SCREENINGS The Concordia Biennial: The Art of Teaching, Concordia Gallery, Concordia University, St. Paul, MN, 2016 It's so hard to live without you, Helsingborgs Dagblads Photo Salon, Landskrona Photo Festival, Landskrona, Sweden, 2016 The Golden Hour, See 18 Film Screening Room, MSP International Airport, Minneapolis, MN 2016 - 17 North of the 45th Parallel, DeVos Museum, Marquette, MI, 2016 Experimental Cinema: Pixels, Minneapolis International Film Festival, St. Anthony Main Theater, Minneapolis, MN, 2016 Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition, RSA Gallery, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 2015 This From There, Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, 2015 Photography Since the Millennium, Louisville Photo Biennial, Carnegie Center for Art and History, New Albany, IN, 2015 SPE Combined Caucus Juried Exhibition, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA, 2015 SPE Combined Caucus Juried Exhibition, UCF Fine Arts Gallery, Orlando, FL, 2015 Perspectives, MN State Arts Board, St. Paul, MN, 2014 Faux / Real, Non-Fiction Gallery, Savannah, GA, 2014 Finders and Keepers, Duchesne Academy (participating Fotofest space), Houston, TX, 2014 Acquisitions and Debuts of the Hillstrom Museum of Art, St. Peter, MN, 2013 Art in the Age of Globalization: Outsourced, Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN, 2012 - 2013 What Can not Be Cured Must Be Endured, Paul Robeson Gallery, Newark, NJ, 2012 Terraforming: Contemporary discourse in landscape photography, King Street Gallery, Silver Spring, MD, 2012 Then + Now, Hillstrom Museum, St. Peter, MN, 2012 Intersections, Minneapolis College of Art and Design Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, 2012 EA$ T / WE $ T: A Global Look at Capitalism, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, IN, 2011 Faculty Exhibition, Schaeffer Gallery, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN, 2010 2008 McKnight Fellows Exhibition, Franklin Artworks, Minneapolis, MN, 2010 Re-Generate, Re-Image, Re-Focus: New Directions in Photography, Priscilla Payne Gallery, Bethlehem, PA, 2009 Yummy, Nexus Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, 2007 Visual Noise, UMC Art Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 2007 Imagining Namibia, The Art Center of St. Peter, St. Peter, MN, 2006 Soul Searching, Cyrus M. Running Gallery, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN, 2006 WCA International Video Shorts Festival, Boston, MA, 2006 Cuba Libre, The Art Center of St. Peter, St. Peter, MN, 2004 Faculty Exhibition, Carver Center for Arts and Technology, Baltimore, MD, 2003 SPE Regional Conference Exhibition, Manchester Craftsman's Guild, Pittsburgh, PA, 2002 True Confessions, Charles Theater, Baltimore, MD, 2000 On Sight, The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, 2000 The Photographic Persona, Belknap Gallery, Univ. of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 1999 The Y2K Solution, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1999 AugenMusik (installation / performance), Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, MD, 1999 Emerging Artists, Maryland Federation of Artists, Annapolis, MD, 1999 LaGrange National, LaGrange College, LaGrange, GA, 1998 Choice, Tate Gallery, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 1998 Three Rivers Arts Festival, Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, 1997 She Defies Gravity, Ekhartsberga Gallery, McKees Rocks, PA, 1996 Exposures, Garfield Artworks, Pittsburgh, PA, 1996 Three Rivers Arts Festival, Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, 1995 Arts on Tour, Vine Street Gallery, Sharon, PA, 1994 Manchester Craftsman's Guild Staff Exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA, 1994

As we look back at 2016, it's not hard to pick the biggest news story of the year: the presidential election, from the whiplash poll numbers to the candidates» «faux pas of the week» to the surprising outcome, which threw Democrats for a loop.

The biggest faux pas are: · Companies not having a firewall (up to 45 % from 27 % in 2013) · Failing to change old passwords (down to 24 % from 59 % in 2013) · Not protecting data stored on printers or photocopiers at all (21 %)

And as an added bonus, it avoids the occasional faux pas when one has actually met the person in person before, but just failed to recall it at the moment.

Put aside the fact that relatively few names work for boys but anything at all seems to go for girls nowadays, there are the matters of nicknames, faux pas with initials, unfortunate translations... and then rhyming.

At this point, if the new Macs don't have lightning ports, it would be a serious faux - pas from Apple basically making listening to audio on their own products really complicated let's hope they've thought this through.

Excel at social media and make certain all of your social media profiles stand out from the crowd, yet don't contain any faux pas.

A similar email rules faux pas is addressing the wrong recipient at the start of your email, which Danny Rubin, author of «Wait, How Do I Write This Email?

Ladders asked hiring managers, career coaches and the etiquette gurus at Emily Post for their advice on when to follow up after you've submitted your job application and resume and how to do so without committing a follow - up faux pas.