Sentences with phrase «glaze over»

When reading papers, it helps me to have a writing task so that I am being an active reader instead of letting my eyes glaze over mountains of text only to forget everything I just read.

Mention the environment or climate change, and people's eyes tend to glaze over.

If you don't like seeing eyes glaze over, you should avoid jargon.

You may have a 30 - minute slot scheduled with Dr. Smith on interview day, but if you can't engage your interviewer for half an hour — if her eyes glaze over halfway through — you won't get the offer.

Their eyes glaze over, their breathing turns slow and shallow, they don't respond to light taps, and a male will let his delicate ligula — the sex organ at the tip of one arm — dangle perilously.

After an hour or 90 minutes of this, our eyes can glaze over.

People's eyes begin to glaze over...

and mind begins to glaze over with «who is who?»

I appreciate that readers» eyes tend to glaze over stories on governmental finance, but this one speaks more to governmental dynamics.

The lawmaker said even his eyes glaze over when it comes to navigating U.S. Census data, and grows frustrated when he can not answers to questions posed by local government officials and constituents.

Ask any of them to do the simplest arithmetic and their eyes glaze over.

I have the same attitude to football that most voters have towards politics: I become slightly more interested in it every four years or so, but in between World Cups, my eyes tend to glaze over.

With knots of uncomfortable feelings rankling on the inside, their eyes glaze over, and they stop exploring their world.

I glaze over the spelling because half the graduate students and professionals I know are expats and don't use American spellings either.

This course is designed to deliver all the ins - and - outs of planning for, managing and caring for your baby as well as strategic + functional information that most other prenatal classes glaze over.

The children's eyes glaze over, and they're no longer enjoying what they're doing, but there's something keeping them going at the same old thing.

I'd like to run this little scenario by them to watch their eyes glaze over and point out to them that this is only 15 minutes of my day.

Drizzle glaze over pies.

Carry on much longer and the eyes start to glaze over and they zone out.

However, if you take a moment to learn what type of seat you need before you shop, your eyes are less likely to glaze over and you'll make the best decision.

When you see his eyes glaze over, lay him in the crib.

While the cake is warm, use a pastry brush to brush the glaze over the top.

Whenever I have tried to talk to my mother about my search for a forever love interest (a wife), her eyes glaze over and it is like she can't wait to end the conversation which is only a one sided deal anyway.

Because it's my experience that the second you show friends, colleagues and the like, these kind of stats, they just glaze over.

Pour the brown sugar glaze over the top and then use a pastry brush to make sure it covers the entire surface of the ham.

Drizzle glaze over the breads.

Carefully turn out the cake onto a serving platter and spoon the glaze over the top of the cake.

Remove from oven, skim some of the fat off the top, and spoon the balsamic glaze over the top.

Or just pour glaze over top of cake and smooth with a butter knife.

I made the filling with the addition of the powdered sugar meant for the glaze (no wonder the paste looks odd) and no glaze over it afterwards.

Spoon the glaze over the top of the meat and serve.

Use a pastry brush to brush the champagne glaze over the top of the cake.

Pour a bit of glaze over each cooled cupcake.

Spoon remaining glaze over.

Pour glaze over brownies and top with walnuts, if using.

You can just pour the glaze over and it sets.

Pour the glaze over the top of the cake, allowing excess to run down the sides.

Drizzle glaze over Scones, and sprinkle with almonds.

Heat until the sauce forms a glaze over the chicken.

Pour 3/4 of glaze over top of cake.

Top with pork; pour reserved glaze over pork.

Heat until the sauce forms a glaze over the shrimp and vegetables.

Pour glaze over cake and spread it across the top and over the edges with an offset spatula.

Spoon a generous amount of the glaze over the top of each muffin.

Spoon reduced glaze over lamb.

Reduce wine to a glaze, remove star anise and pour glaze over pluots; rest for 1 hour.

Drizzle the glaze over the cinnamon rolls while still warm and serve right away.

Using a spoon, drizzle glaze over cookies.

Pour the glaze over the warm cake and let sit until cake absorbs glaze completely.

Pour the glaze over the hot buns and sprinkle with the pecans.