Sentences with phrase «getting at something»

For him, video is just a way of getting at something more elusive and magical: the mystery of live performance.

With these paintings, the skeleton of the stories the Bostwana - born, New York — based artist presents are more important than his characters — Mokgosi is getting at something deeper than just tales about history.

Most dog owners don't like their dogs digging, however, and in fact, it can be a dangerous behavior especially if it leads to getting at something that could be harmful to them or worse yet, escape.

It's also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be.

While none of his films from that time were religious, per se (besides the provocative The Last Temptation), Scorsese sees much of his work as getting at something spiritual.

Paul is getting at something deeper than the play of cultural distortions.

There's a big difference between a movie that preys on fear for its own ends and a movie that uses fear to get at something deeper, and Christians have a special responsibility to be discerning of that difference.

Sindbæk agrees, adding that this kind of complex mathematical analysis might cut through the text's overt spin to get at something real.

«If a robot learns how to slide objects in the refrigerator aside so it can get at something at the back of the shelf, then it should be able to do it not just in our refrigerator but in your refrigerator, too,» says Srinivasa.

«You start with something very simple, like the spread of a puddle, but you get at something very fundamental about intermolecular forces,» Ruben Juanes says.

«You start with something very simple, like the spread of a puddle, but you get at something very fundamental about intermolecular forces,» Juanes says.

«With The Canyons,» she concludes, «[Schrader] tries to get at something real under all the hard, glossy surfaces, but ends up caught in the divide between the movie that he seems to have wanted to make and the one he did.»

Over at Movieline their piece «Ruby Sparks Blows Up Manic Pixie Dream Girl Myth» gets at something similar:

She gets at something about grief, yes, but also mortality — the pale fragility of the human body and perhaps, though she is loath to concede it, the delicate impermanence of the soul.

«El Critico» is a clever, fun comedy that gets at something about how critics look at cinema and how the archetypes that we love to dismiss in films can sometimes invade our home lives as well.

Perhaps because its subject has been marinating for a solid decade - plus longer, I, Tonya gets at something thornier and more interesting.

His film is less about Dean than the push and pull of two artists using these sessions to try to get at something they can't quite articulate — to create a monument, to capture as best they can a moment that will be long gone so quickly and never return.

And with this study, Selman and Elizabeth hope to get at something deeper too as they observe how students wrestle with the ethical decisions the characters make and how the students apply that thinking to challenges they may face in their own lives.

That's a fair point too however I was trying to get at something else.

I was trying to get at something — I didn't know what until it was manifest.»

Here the artists speak across art history and social history in order to get at something about home that is so different, so appealing.»

Conner wanted to get at something beyond what some claim was his «invention of Music Video» (especially the sort that was premiered on early MTV).

If you try too hard to get at something, you almost push it away.»

It was trying to get at something that might not have been captured by the rest of the factors, like for instance, where you have someone, maybe, who has more income, but all of that income is going to medical expenses.

Not exact matches

While at times I get frustrated, it has become something we definitely negotiate with each other on.

But a micro-manager won't delegate something unless the person is actually better than they are at the task — 120 % better — which means that nothing ever really gets delegated off your desk.

He recalled how he and his family got into town for the first time late at night, and because of something that went wrong in the move, they all went to a late showing at the theater to kill time.

Even if Canada doesn't start dropping payloads of cash itself — something Cooper says he does not foresee in the next three years, at least — the ripple effect of a central bank explicitly targeting higher inflation and adopting formerly verboten measures to get it would be felt on these shores in the form of increased global volatility.

Not so at RFRK, which has increased both its employee retention (in the high - turnover food - service industry, no less) and its rep as an employer of choice (the firm recently got 350 applications for an admin position) by making its people feel something very powerful: that their work matters.

They ended up at Celebration 6 1/2 years ago when they got off the road and started a family, but the drive to do something in the arts continued.

Sorry, but unless you've got a perfect driving record and have never — not once — done something unexpected or stupid while driving, you don't have the right to direct an obscenity at anybody else.

If he gets critical coverage, then it's obvious that he was right about the untrustworthy liberal media — something he routinely criticizes at his rallies — and he still wins.

Be creative, rather than say something jarring such as, «Can we get back to the task at hand?»

Prime members can get a little extra something when they choose free no - rush shipping at checkout.

People love to get things for free, but they feel obligated at the end to give something in return.

«And you wonder where he gets all of the time and energy and discipline to do it because human nature says that after you've been good at something for a very long time, you typically either get distracted or your intensity or focus wanes.

This is something that businessmen and stay at home moms are all getting in on.

«You've got to enjoy going to work and when you're passionate about something, when you enjoy it, you're going to be better at it.

«I always look at investing in businesses where I have a competitive advantage, and smoking it is not a competitive advantage, then it's not something that I'd get into.

«It was just something that I was making in my kitchen because I didn't like sugar,» says Woolverton, whose company, Halo Top Creamery, has landed at No. 5 on Inc.'s 2017 list of the fastest - growing private companies in the U.S. «It wasn't until later, when I got an actual $ 20 ice cream maker, that I was like, «Oh, wow, there's something here.»»

But doing something exciting outside of work «to rebalance the boredom of 9 - to - 5» will only get you so far, said Maite Baron, chief executive officer at The Corporate Escape, a London - based career - transition consultancy that helps disillusioned employees become business owners, in an email.

The r - process goes something like this: As neutron stars move toward each other, a tiny bit of their material gets shot into space at incredible speeds.

«You just don't know what's going to happen when you get out there and do something like this,» said Paul Argenti, professor of corporate communications at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

We're getting guys who do this over and over again, so if you look at the number of companies that have been bought in M&A over the last 20 years, it's something like 1,500.

The company is giving press a sneak peek at the upcoming service at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, and after a brief tour of what Hulu's got thus far, there are reasons to believe it's on to something.

At least then she can feel like she got something done and is back in control.

«When you look at why people are still getting hacked or breached, I think a big contributor to that is either not knowing if you were patched or if you were patched and you were secure at one point, but something happened in operations that caused you not to be patched again,» Mong said.

When we were kids, we learned that we couldn't get good at something unless we practiced and practiced.

«If you're competing in a way that destroys value, or if it at all feels like something's got ta give, then that competition has become unhealthy.»

But if something is disappointing at the other end of the scale, I'm likelier to think, «Oh well, I guess you get what you pay for!»