Sentences with phrase «hackles when»

It was this portrait which raised most hackles when Sensation opened at London's Royal Academy in London two years ago.

I'm never quite clear of the line between «arousal» and «over arousal,» but I do find it interesting that so many dogs never raise their hackles when excited.

Torpedo raised his hackles when he was excited / stressed out about something.

Peter raises eyebrows and hackles when he proclaims that «we can't adopt our way out of the problem,» referring to the needless killing of shelter animals.

Many dogs will raise their hackles when they first enter a new situation.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan raised some hackles when he told a gathering of state education superintendents on Nov. 15 that fresh complaints about the Common Core State Standards were mostly from «white suburban moms» upset that their children weren't as «brilliant as they thought they were.»

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan raised some hackles when he told a gathering of state education superintendents on November 15 that fresh complaints about the Common Core State Standards were mostly from white suburban moms upset that their children weren't as brilliant as they thought they were.

I can't make that choice for anyone else either, but it does raise my hackles when I hear arguments that seem to assume that I think me having a bad time is a worse thing then the child I love and long for dying.

Not exact matches

There will be moments, to be sure, in the coming days and months when those on either side of this transfer of power will have their hackles raised.

When we turn to social science, however, the whole issue of modeling begins to raise people's hackles.

But they are growing enough to indicate an inevitable future when issues like papacy, episcopacy and presbyterianism will not raise Christian hackles as they now do.

Egan raised hackles among audience members when he claimed 39 seniors died on the waiting list for the in - home services under McCoy's watch.

Then, adding a comment he predicted would raise hackles, Moss said, «I have found that when an actor is no longer able to compete on the stage, they somehow think they can translate their name recognition to the ballot box.

Unlike the Veyron coupe, which provides an eerie and outlandish virtual - reality experience when pushed beyond 200 mph, the Grand Sport raises hackles at a mere 100 mph.

I read a blog recently that was full of nasty misconceptions about romance writers and it raised my hackles, big time, but I didn't comment when I realized the writer was a newbie and depressed after a bunch of rejections.

She knows me well enough to trust that I knew something was wrong and we needed to get him and was convinced when she saw the hackles up and a «SHAKE OFF».

The hackles, or the fur along the top of the neck, typically stands up when a dog feels threatened.

At five months your dog was a social butterfly with nothing but wiggles and wags when greeting people, but by eight months of age he has become defensive and lacking in confidence: he barks and backs off, or he snaps and lunges with hackles raised.

The hackles thing I learned early on... Ducky raises hers at her tail end when she's running the fence line with our neighbor's little pup.

I remember when Haley was young and her hackles would raise around her tail.

Of course, when she sees a squirrel to chase, it's hard to tell if those hackles are raised in excitement or aggression cuz she would probably try to tear one up from limb to limb if she ever caught it.

On the subject of hackles; I understand that it is considered a sign of arousal, and not necessarily an indication of aggressiveness, since some dogs will piloerect when playing or eating.

As I think about it, I've seen hackles up mostly during play or when a dog is barking at visitors or another dog.

That dog never growled or put his hackles up when he met me.

So when you read Idso's work, did your skeptical hackles get raised because he described conflicting evidence in the context of calling it propaganda?

When a scientist gets his hackles up over some published finding, usually the response is to test the results him / herself.

Last July, when he testified before a Senate Committee examining climate change, Pielke even raised the hackles of President Obama's science adviser, John Holdren.

When a buyer lowballs you or says they will need to replace your prized 1970s vintage shag carpet with something «more modern,» try not to raise your hackles.