Sentences with phrase «giving long lectures»

Instead of listening to your message, your child is more likely to be thinking about how much he dislikes listening to you talk when you give him a long lecture.

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At the end of the ten hours, I came in and he made me give him two pennies which was my contribution to the social security and he gave me two one Dollar bills and a long lecture about the evils of Democrats and the welfare state and the lack of self - reliance and it went on and on and on, so I had the right antecedents too.

If you use this jargon everyone becomes totally confused, unless you give an enormously long lecture.

Neither an evening with Bultmann in a Wiesbaden Weinhaus nor dinner with Tillich when he gave the Gifford Lectures in Aberdeen, nor that long walk with Brunner through the streets of Zurich, nor periodic chats with Barth in his Basel home shook my conviction that scriptural theism holds a logic absent from recent modern theology.

Somehow I doubt you have been doing this as long as I have or you would have got my point instead of giving me a condescending lecture on what I do and teach.

2016 Suzi Gage is honored for her generous public engagement activities that center on evidence - based approaches with the potential to build long - term critical thinking skills in her audiences.Gage writes a science blog for the Guardian newspaper's website, and frequently gives public lectures and talks.

Not long after her discovery, Christiano was giving a lecture at Harvard University when a dermatologist approached to tell her about two sisters in Acerno, a mountaintop village outside Naples, Italy.

The program was specifically designed to provide an intermediate alternative both to 6 - month or year - long sabbaticals, which can be disruptive to the head of an active laboratory, and short visits to give a lecture, which on average do not leave enough time for thoughtful discussions.

While the film is seemingly accessible as a portrait of an artist who seems particularly attuned to his own creative process, and particularly adept at describing this attunement (Cave has given several long - form lectures on the peculiar metaphysics of songcraft), it's unlikely that many who aren't already whole - hog Bad Seeds fans would be able to stomach much of Cave's self - styled pomposity.

On the other hand, Alison Kent described a more «traditional» INSET course where she and her colleagues were subjected to a series of boring PowerPoint slides with a long lecture from a consultant who listed a large number of tips and tricks to improve whole - school behaviour which included avoiding sanctions, giving more chances, and using more praise.

The story goes over 24 hours and starts with Langdon being flown by private jet to Washington to give a lecture as a favour to his long - time friend (and Mason), Peter Solomon.

Developer Lionhead's head of studio Peter Moluneyx and Microsoft Games Studio's studio design director Josh Atkins will be giving an hour - long lecture on the subject — titled «The Complex Challenges of Intuitive Design» — at the Game Developers Conference next month where the validity of one «long - established game mechanic» in particular will challenged.

Paolo Marino (Print Media» 17) participated in a month - long residency at Penn State University, giving an artist lecture and curating an exhibition of prints.

(Please take the time to watch the 2003 lecture Smalley gave at Columbia University; this talk shaped my own reporting, helping result in my first long piece, in 2006, on the glaring clean - energy research gap.)

After former Prime Minister Tony Abbott gave the group's annual lecture in October, it was the turn of one of Australia's longest - serving deniers to empty another bucket of bunkum.

For most people, taking an online defensive driving course meant spending long hours in a classroom while an instructor gave a lecture on how to drive safely.

Rather than having Long Beach students sit through 8 hour boring lectures about driving safety, why not give them the information via a medium they already gravitate towards: the Internet!