Sentences with word «hobbyhorse»

Several trial schemes do exist — in most cases in the form of experimental projects or as the personal hobbyhorse of a junior doctor — but there is no general trend that would allow one to conclude that new approaches are becoming visible or generally accepted.

This new sport of hobbyhorse riding blends rider and mount, and it is this hybridization and fusion that Husain became interested in.

Both the Trump and Trudeau governments have their pet hobbyhorses, and both are antithetical to actual free trade.

Jeff Jacoby is riding one of my favorite hobbyhorses.

The story also shows that charter schools are much more than a right - wing hobbyhorse — that Democrats, too, are capable of using them to buck the system.

Keyed by Hutchins's clay - headed hobbyhorse, most of the work in the show embraces domestic life, but tentatively and with trepidation.

One of them is the video «hobbyhorse revolution», I mentioned before.

For example, in my current show «Rider, Path, and Vehicle» a video on the internet about girls hobbyhorse riding inspired me, and parallel to that I read a lot of Sufi literature.

for this particular hobbyhorse of his.

The places that were hammering away on the hockey stick hobbyhorse don't have any followup, that I can find, since the 2005 data and charts hit the news recently showing continued increase in temperature.

So - called «revenue - neutral» carbon pricing — whereby the proceeds are used to fund tax cuts — has long been a cherished hobbyhorse of free - market economists and the odd Republican who favors climate action.

I'm indebted to others for the first; the second is my own hobbyhorse.

The current system has not been responsive enough to efforts to transform it, but it has no mechanism or capacity to separate the wheat from the chaff, no means for determining what is a good idea and what is some individual» s pet hobbyhorse.

I doubt that hobbyhorse riding could have developed into such a high level of competition if those girls didn't run blogs, or post their exploits on Facebook or Instagram.

There is clearly some concern amongst Canada's bankers that the NDP's newfound status as official opposition will now amplify the politicians» criticisms of the banking system — should the party remount their hobbyhorses.

By the end of Mr. Thiel's speech on Thursday night, it's possible he will have succeeded in showing off an ideology that is rarely encountered in public — the hands - off - my - stuff, techno - libertarian vision that is a hobbyhorse of Mr. Thiel and a few other Silicon Valley bigwigs.

Rocking gently as a child's hobbyhorse, with his nose tucked down and his ears pricked forward, the elderly chestnut gelding trotted quickly around the muddy ring.

Get on your hobbyhorse and tell us all about it!

It's not so much a satirical view as a perception that most people are naturally obsessive — the hobbyhorse theory of humanity.

Scanlon's hobbyhorse is the movie's lighting, very purposefully designed as it was to narrate the drama on a subconscious level — it's really the topical alpha and omega for Scanlon, who monopolizes the conversation.

Again, annoying at first, but it becomes kind of fun, and bounding around in such a hobbyhorse was actually an appropriate check to your ambitions with the 4Runner's 270 - horsepower V6 in this inescapably tall and heavy (4,750 - pound claimed curb weight) vehicle.

Charleston was my father's ministry, his hobbyhorse, his quiet obsession, and the great love of his life.

He carved a hobbyhorse that Princess Mary rode through the ballroom at Buckingham Palace.

It wasn't like his other gifts — the basket of candied cherries, the hobbyhorse, the toy drum — not a gift for a child at all.

Husain came upon a video link of a hobbyhorse riding competition a number of months back and became fascinated by the activity, which is quite popular in Scandinavia.

The most prominent image, however, is that of the hobbyhorse rider: a young woman in sports clothes atop a stick with a horse head, who runs and jumps as if she were part of the horse.

We spoke with the artist about her current show «Rider, Path, and Vehicle» at the brand new location of PSM Gallery that is filled with an installation of paintings covering layers of influences from Sufi Liturature, comics, hobbyhorse riding, Native Americans» spiritual relation to nature and furry subculture.

A hobbyhorse in that sense, is accessible to anyone and doesn't require a lot of money or years of training.

He has hobbyhorses and is the more likely to launch into debate to defend positions he's staked out before.

james — sorry, this is a bit of a hobbyhorse of mine, but Crichton's mealymouthed denials notwithstanding, you're wrong.

This fact underlies my work as an expert, focusing on two aspects of numbers: first, that they are appropriate to the situation, and second — a hobbyhorse of mine — ensuring that advice about financial risk has an array of numbers attached so that the recipient can appreciate the risk (and can focus their attention on the material issues).

You should also be cautious about implementing all suggested changes, as each reviewer has a curse of knowledge of their own, as well as «hobbyhorses, blind spots, and axes to grind».