Sentences with phrase «humbugs in»

Plenty of anthias and humbugs in the shallows.

Not exact matches

Whilst there may be greed, humbug or arrogance in the increasingly frequent experiments of teenagers, there is more often just confusion and «a sweet love blasted in the bud.»
The Christian heroism (and perhaps it is rarely to be seen) is to venture wholly to be oneself, as an individual man, this definite individual man, alone before the face of God, alone in this tremendous exertion and this tremendous responsibility; but it is not Christian heroism to be humbugged by the pure idea of humanity or to play the game of marveling at world - history.
That Thoreau was a humbug who is only kept in print by his capacity to capture the passing fancies of impressionable adolescents is neither here nor there to the editors of the Times, who apparently feel entitled to indulge their own impulse to throw an adolescent snit in protest against a nation that appreciates them insufficiently.
most of them German expressionists, were gathered in a large - scale traveling exhibition designed to illustrate what he termed the «degenerate Jew - boy» tendencies of those so - called «artists» who wished to inflict their «humbug» on the German people.
Humbugs are the newest addition to Holly's Lollies confectionery family, made using traditional methods right here in the UK.
The faux «loyalty» that Wenger claims, in humbug style, to show, is ONLY to his own power, salary and his inability to do anything else outside football, which at 68, most people of his age have to accept.
Arsenal fc would happily give Wenger the extra # 70,000 a week rather than giving it to Sanchez and In all the while that Mr Humbug is still in charge at the club, There's little point in worrying about our star players leaving, since wenger has obviously forgotten what to do with them, anywaIn all the while that Mr Humbug is still in charge at the club, There's little point in worrying about our star players leaving, since wenger has obviously forgotten what to do with them, anywain charge at the club, There's little point in worrying about our star players leaving, since wenger has obviously forgotten what to do with them, anywain worrying about our star players leaving, since wenger has obviously forgotten what to do with them, anyway.
Lord Heseltine is a frightful old humbug who divided the Conservative party more than anybody else in our modern history and a period of silence on his part would be welcome.»
The holiday spirit is taking a beating in one Connecticut town — where neighbors are saying bah, humbug to a dazzling display of Christmas lights that draws thousands of gawkers and raises cash for sick kids.
Science, they might say, is a great disturber of pretence and guise, it shouts scorn and cocks a snook at the humbug and the moral cant that we see around us, and inside us, and it says to us: reality is this way, over here, in this direction.
Previously - common fish species in the area like the black - and - white striped humbug damselfish and green chromis had almost «completely» disappeared, said Marshall.
Im already known as a bah - humbugging buzzkill for insisting on clearing away wrapping paper in between rounds of gift - opening every Christmas.
And I work in a supermarket so that explains my bah humbug behavior!
But defining your values and using them to guide what you expect from your holiday (and life in general) will certainly up your happiness game, and it'll be much easier to make merry even when circumstances make you feel like bah - humbug.
This might be bah humbug time in some circles but, at EliteSingles, we just can't help it; we truly believe that Christmas can be the most romantic time of the year.
Most notable is a «humbug» - spouting miser (Christopher Plummer, digging in with crusty brio) who will inspire the character of Ebenezer Scrooge, that «Christmas Carol» engine himself.
In this splendidly scrambled story, the Scrooge - ish network head is a humbug of the highest order: He bullies his selfless secretary (Alfre Woodard); he rejects his only brother (Brian Doyle Murray) and, indicative of his mean - spirited ways, he fires a longtime employee (Bobcat Goldthwait) on Christmas Eve, ostensibly to save a Christmas bonus.
But he struggles with his vision for the sake of his wife Charity (Michelle Williams) and their two daughters, first in near - poverty and later in success as he attempts to stick it to high - society naysayers who don't appreciate his «primitive circus of humbug
It's tough to stifle a laugh when Dicks comes upon a miserly old man in a cemetery who mutters a grumpy «humbug» to him as he passes, especially as Stevens» eyes widen in an exaggerated «Eureka!»
It feels slightly humbug to point out that all native characters are in service to the white characters (just like during our colonial past!).
From sharpening his teeth on Buffy the Vampire Slayer to playing merry hell with horror conventions in The Cabin in the Woods (as writer) to making the sparkiest dialogue in his previous Marvel outing, Avengers Assemble, Whedon's wit is bracing and knowing enough to undercut all humbug.
Living in a cave atop the nearby Mt. Crumpit is the Grinch (Carrey), the fuzzy green ball o» bah humbug that attempts to rob the Whos of their holiday cheer by stealing all of their presents.
The role of Dickens's father John, twice imprisoned for debt and the model for Mr Micawber in David Copperfield, falls to Jonathan Pryce, in a sentimental turn that's intentionally the antithesis to Plummer's expert humbugging.
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That gave con artists or carnival barkers like P.T. Barnum — whose spectacular career as the Prince of Humbugs is portrayed by Hugh Jackman in the recent blockbuster musical film — a golden opportunity to swoop in to make you feel better while they take your money or steal your soul or your vote.
Both men sweep into her life, testing her faith, and stirring up desire and confusion in equal measure.If she can just get through this humbug holiday without another heartache!In the spirit of Hallmark mo...
My past publishing credits include: «Wonderful» — a short story sold to «Blah Magazine» in 1999 and «Amazing» — an award - winning article sold to «Humbug Publishing» in 2000.
Sorry (not) if one sounds like a bah humbug but crikey some of the squares on my instagram feed are recommending images to me of homes beamed in from the other...
The Australian Government speaks so much humbug about greenhouse policies and the Kyoto Protocol that one could be excused for thinking that it operates in a parallel universe in which the normal rules of logic and evidence do not apply.
Australians don't do loud mouthed self - aggrandizing — such as webby excels in — or puffed up humbug like mosh.
~ On Friday the ongoing posturing and showboating from senatorial humbugs over the nomination of a new CIA director prompted Mark to re-air a timely episode of The Mark Steyn Show in which he interviewed the man who waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Dr James Mitchell.
Read it all in the New York Times; For an opposing view, read David Katz in Huffington Post, who says «The notion that sugar is evil and the only dietary consideration that matters is, in a word, humbug
The (a) diagram should be contrasted with a very similar graph published by Peter Humbug, in his January 2011 Physics Today article.
Jim Cripwell says: May 18, 2013 at 6:33 am «Baa Humbug says» Alert me when you get to climate sensitivity of zero and I'll pay attention» You may be interested in my extremely simplistic approach to this issue.
This claim has been most recently been made in the much publicised featured article in the Jan 2011 issue of Physics Today, by Peter Humbug; climate modeller supreme.
The PT article contains some totally surprising claims; but then Peter Humbug is a Professor of Geophysical Sciences; and not just any Professor, but THE Louis Block Professor, at the University of Chicago, so I would take everything he says as gospel; even thoguh I don't undertand much of it; such as the earth heating to 800,000 K in a billion years, if it had no means of ridding itself of the energy it gets from the sun.
As I was walking toward the door to leave, two couples walked into the store and one of the men saw the sign I was holding and scolded me in a Bah - Humbug sort of way way, «It's not even Halloween yet!
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