Sentences with phrase «game of telephone»

But I realized quickly that was the worst game of telephone, ever.

Worst of all, people end up playing seemingly endless games of telephone tag trying to figure out why someone is calling them.

My method is like playing a visual game of telephone with myself where the viewer is the last ear.

We've all played that game of telephone when we were children.

Like any childhood game of telephone, her translation of the design loses accuracy while gaining a depth afforded by interpretation.

Lost in the ensuing game of telephone was the fact that in both cases the researchers accept that overall warming is occurring and will continue in the long run.

It's like the world's most boring game of Telephone.

It was like the slowest game of telephone as everybody figured out what happened (with terrible in - stadium cell signal).

Banding together with the folks at Scaleway, OVH and others has allowed us to short circuit a painfully slow game of telephone and provide our customers with as much detail as possible as they try to understand where and how their systems may be vulnerable,» Nathan Goulding, Packet's SVP of engineering explained.

Religion, in any of its various forms, is essentially a very ancient, very elaborate game of telephone.

When an opioid binds to a receptor in the peripheral nervous system, the nerve cells outside the brain, the receptor changes shape and sets in motion a cellular game of telephone that stops pain messages from reaching the brain.

(Kind of like a tiny game of telephone).

«She said somebody stole her Oscar,» Haddish told another party guest, launching a full - blown game of telephone.

Clever page turns, hilarious details, and delightful wordplay abound in the bird world's version of the classic game of Telephone.

She delights in the slips of scale and materiality that happen when translating between media — a digital game of telephone that occurs over repeated rounds of ⌘ Copy and ⌘ Paste.

Painting Between the Lines enacts a visual game of telephone: the original quote as the anchor, the painting as the second step, and the written descriptions of the paintings of the quotes serving as a final (and perhaps unintentional) element in the loop.

It's like a huge game of telephone.

Information given to one spouse without the other spouse present can quickly turn into a contentious game of telephone when information is misinterpreted and then relayed to the other spouse in a manner that compromises the mediator's neutrality.

It's like a bad game of telephone.

Like a giant game of telephone, these academia - born phrases are repeated and passed through the education ecosystem from academics to foundations to advocates to administrators until they are plunked in front of parents at Back - to - School night as well - known concepts.

Media exposure is important, but using a PR firm and journalists to communicate your message to the public can quickly become a game of telephone.

Oral tradition was a self correcting excercise, as opposed to the ridiculous comparison people make to the game of telephone.

While the game of telephone may apply when passing things on through word of mouth... the recorded histories passed down in writings have always been historically accurate, and obviously composed in a deliberate and well - thought - out manner.

The «game of telephone» argument is easily disproved, as ALL ancient societies passed down their histories through writings that were very accurate.

We have to gage cultural contexts, unearth a hermeneutic, parse through the Greek and Hebrew, deal with the anonymous books, the hyperbole, the question of what «God - breathed» actually means, the question of the Gospels» authority over all the other texts, and the fact that each generation has interpreted Scripture from a different slant, passing the message down like a game of telephone.

Ever play a game of telephone?

The governor's office didn't secure the yellow Corvette Cuomo drove across the new Mario Cuomo Bridge until just a few days before the event — the product of a game of telephone that stretched from a Mount Kisco car dealership near the governor's home, to a Long Island restoration shop, to the Bronx - based attorney who actually owns it.

«If it captures the imagination, it's like a game of telephone: In the retelling, it turns into something you didn't originally say.

As in a game of telephone, each time a gene gets passed from one microbe to another, slight differences develop that reflect the DNA dialect of its new host.

Like a game of telephone, Shakespeare's words got lost in translation, resulting in phrases that barely resemble the original, Bruster says.

When they want to start making a shape, one Kilobot flashes out a signal that passes through the swarm like a game of telephone.

News of the outside world (with Marlin's ocean mission humorously transmitted via a game of telephone) is provided by Nigel (Geoffrey Rush), a gossipy pelican who shares the tank gang's dental knowledge of their warden's profession, having observed the dentist and his patients ad nauseum.

Cloverfield 8: It's the end of that game of telephone you started with a group of friends in fourth grade.

Some of this is inevitable: change in education will always be like the child's game of telephone.

In the end, Spillane writes, implementation resembled the children's game of Telephone, in which the standards were whispered from the state capitol to classrooms, only to create a muddled message at the end of the line.

It's like the game of telephone — the original intent can get lost when standards are passed from the Standards writers to textbook publishers, teachers and finally students.

Like Grandpappy's words of wisdom, or garbled messages in a game of telephone, the remembering percentages have been relayed in umpteen variations.

It was Jean - François who taught me this days later, whispering «Je t» aime» through my friends» ears in a game of telephone at a party, a gesture so public I felt as if you were watching us.

There are portions of dialog that either make no sense or feel like you are playing a game of telephone.

«It's like a game of telephone that unfolds through all the senses,» notes Sally Taylor, «and inspires us to see the world through others» eyes.»

Her show's title, «Fwd: The Telephone Game,» already places it in cyberspace, where the game of telephone tag involves the forward command.

In «The Bearden Project,» at the Studio Museum in homage to Romare Bearden, he turned paint cans into a game of telephone.

Let them make it a game of telephone from room to room, the way you did last time, with «Out of Time.»