Sentences with phrase «few words they speak»

The first seven minutes or so of Rams plays out in almost absolute silence, with no music and only a few words spoken.

High - quality preschool improves students» social, cognitive and developmental readiness for kindergarten, putting them on track to long - term success in school.5 The benefits are especially critical for low - income students, who typically hear 30 million fewer words spoken than their wealthier peers by age 2 and face an uphill battle to early literacy and math proficiency throughout their education.6

Babies understand so much more than the few words they speak.

Not exact matches

Opportunities in Greece were few, and so when his older sister later married and immigrated to Canada, he followed at age 16, arriving in Toronto without speaking a word of English.

You can't expect the world to speak English, so it's always helpful to learn a few basic words in the local language of your destination.

Jesus left us relatively few words — a person could memorize them all — and he spoke with such economy and precision that each can be seen as a goad and a nail.

«Speaking a few words on my own behalf,» Cicero states:

Sometimes if they have the strength they pray but, usually they can only speak a few words.

Wishing our words were tactile, we speak of them like textiles: Dressed - up tales are madeout of whole cloth.A fibber fabricatesas if his lie were a linen.Text is cut from Latin: to weave, what tellers do with tales.A good yarn has many threadsand few loose ends.A well - suited phrase becomesa threadbare....

Put an objective observer (I know, there's no such thing) into a community and in a few weeks or months, depending on the complexity of that community, you will be able to describe their political (not a bad word) and social structure, you will uncover their norms and mores, their rules, very often unspoken or only spoken and not written.

In Walmart yesterday, there were farmers in their beat up hats and old boots, clustered in front of that rack of Hallmark cards, their worn hands thumbing through the glossy hearts, looking for a string of words that spoke their own hearts of few words.

But Mark wants us to know that what this looks like is often a matter of speaking a quiet word in a committee meeting, spending time with someone who is incoherent and coming apart at the seams, emptying a bedpan at the hospital and scratching a few desperate, halting words on a legal pad when getting ready for Sunday's sermon.

The wedding celebration sounds like it might have hit a snag when Timberlake's longtime buddy, L.A. real estate agent Justin Huchel, played an eight - and - a-half minute video he'd shot of a group of homeless people — some of whom had clear mental issues and one of whom was incapable of speaking — offering a few words to the multimillionaire couple.

The few who speak out are ignored, or people do not know what to do with the words they hear.

In this first few verses in CH 1, the bible seems to describe the first spoken words of God in Genesis, words like «Let there be light, and light became».

There are few things that annoy me as much as people who get up to speak when they have given little or no thought to how those hearing their words might be in a completely different life - stage and circumstance to them.

We were about to carry out the headboard of the old mahogany bedstead when John suddenly stopped, and, with a few carefully chosen words, spoke about the death of his infant child many years ago.

I shall later write a few more words explaining all this; but right now we must remember that ultimately every human race, every people, every religious, political, and social group has its own style of thinking and speaking.

A more robust character, like Pius XI or John Paul II, not to speak of medieval popes who took on emperors, might have said more in fewer words.

Having spent the past few days listening more and speaking less, I circled those last few words in my notebook and wrote «strongest point» beside them.

Illustrations are shared abundantly: words spoken at the marriage altar, by the judge passing sentence, in the ceremonies of christening and knighting, to name only a few.18 These examples of dynamistic and creative functions of language are the residue of a primative view of the power of speech before words became impoverished.

good do me a favor next time you speak with god tell him to come back around i have a few choice words i would like to have with him... like we is he such a dead beat father and where is all the back child support he owes humanity?

A: «I hoped that these few words which I have spoken about my faith would help you and that my plea would open the eyes of your soul.

In his autobiography Greene may indeed have been hiding his primal horror behind a screen of cool; after all, his first spoken words, a few months after this event, were supposedly «poor dog.»

Some friends were apprehensive that my wearing such a hat savored of an affected singularity: those who spoke with me in a friendly way, I generally informed in a few words, that I believed my wearing it was not in my own will.»

But no; this is not to go over to well with the unbelievers, very few believed Jesus and the disciple's spoke forth as the Holy Spirit gave them the words to speak forth, and God is still the same today and they call themselves Christians but they live in unbelief: They truly think that God has changed His ways:

Plenty of people can speak the words but very few live them — if any!!

We aren't relying solely on the few words recorded that Jesus spoke in 3 years of ministry.

I spoke a few words to some women at a Holy Spirit conference once and one of the ladies really appreciated what I was saying, it was really reaching her, and she asked, where do you get all this stuff?

I actually just moved to Paris, like, a day ago, despite not speaking a word of French (okay... so I know a * few * words.

She spoke of her part in the origin of a particular brand of ice cream, in her own words: «Someone was having a really good time, and after a few glasses of wine, they poured some cabernet over a bowl of ice cream,» and that person was totally not her.

They're always surprised when I speak a few words of Korean and last week, I met some wonderful Korean gals that were pretty surprised to see me filling my shopping basket with chile peppers, fermented shrimp, and garlic - chili paste.

He also spoke about their being a fair few Frenchman in the current squad which would help him to settle, but Coquelin has played a bigger role than that, as an Evening Standard report explains, as the two have kept in contact since those international days and are clearly quite close, so Coquelin has had the chance to put in a lot of good words for the Gunners.

And the few words he does speak are heeded without question.

The other day, a man being interviewed by Gene Ward, New York Daily News sports columnist, spoke a few solemn words in praise of Cus D'Amato, manager of Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson.

Picture this, we don't come out of the gate firing on all cylinders, Wenger speaks of how there wasn't enough time for the first - teamers to build chemistry, several key players aren't even playing because of Wenger's utterly ridiculous policy regarding players who played in the Confed Cup or the under21s and the boo - birds have returned in full flight... if these things were to happen, which is quite possible considering the Groundhog Day mentality of this club, how long do you think it will take for Wenger to recant his earlier statements regarding Europa... I would suggest that it's these sorts of comments from Wenger which are often his undoing... why would any manager worth his weight in salt make such a definitive statement before the season has even started... why would any manager who fashions himself an educated man make such pronouncements before even knowing what his starting 11 will be come Friday, let alone on September 1st... why would any manager who has a tenuous relationship with a great many supporters offer up such a potentially contentious talking point considering how many times his own words have come back to bite him in the ass... I think he does this because he doesn't care what you or I think, in fact he's more than slightly infuriated by the very idea of having to answer to the likes of you and me... that might have been acceptable during his formative years in charge, when the fans were rewarded with an scintillating brand of football and success felt like a forgone conclusion, but this new Wenger led team barely resembles that team of ore... whereas in times past we relished a few words from our seemingly cerebral manager, in recent times those words have been replaced by a myriad of excuses, a plethora of infuriating stories about who he could have signed but didn't and what can only be construed as outright fabrications... it's kind of funny that when we want some answers, like during the whole contract debacle of last season, we can't get an intelligent word out of him, but when we just what him to show his managerial acumen through his actions, we can't seem to get him to shut - up... I beg you to prove me wrong Arsene

And he just came to us few months ago and doesn't speak a word of English!

The staff was very friendly, and most spoke enough English, but were very pleased if you made the effort to speak a few words of Spanish.

Now comes a period of extraordinary growth, as your toddler goes from speaking a few simple words to asking questions, giving directions, and even telling you stories she's made up.

He is a boy of few words (why speak when there are so many to do it for you?)

I would never dream of spanking her, but there were a few harsh words spoken.

About 40 percent of those with autism disorder don't speak at all, and 25 to 30 percent have a few words in their vocabulary at 18 months but lose them later.

Not only has your baby most likely tripled her birth weight, she also is probably walking and speaking a few words.

Of course, we've encouraged our folks to re-write the message in their own words, but almost nobody does (fewer than 10 % of people do, according to vendors I've spoken with before).

Indeed, he knew only a few words of English when he arrived in this country at the age of 20, and throughout his life he spoke with a strong Polish Accent.

When Charles's parents died and Charles said a few words in the church, he wouldn't come up here to the lectern but insisted on speaking outside the sanctuary, from the floor.

In a wide - ranging interview last week, a relaxed version of the typically buttoned - down Negron spoke about his personal reaction to the «unfathomable» tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, growing up with seven brothers in what sounds like an austere household, and the significance of using fewer words and saying them slowly.

No other boxer, no other sportsman for that matter can lay claim to having so many words spoken and written about them over their lifetime, very few books have got to the heart of the contradictions in Ali's life.

But she said Astorino may have picked up a few votes in the Hispanic community because he was the only one who spoke Spanish during the debate — even if it was only a few words.

A lot of my fellow postgrads and postdocs are from much further away than Britain and didn?t speak more than a few words of French before they arrived.