Sentences with phrase «in a huff about»

My mother, of all people, called me in a huff about the OkCupid article in the NY Times, OKCupid Plays With Love in User Experiments.

The fact that Rise of the Tomb Raider is getting a Season Pass isn't much to get in a huff about.

(Actually in these contexts e.g. Wilks [1995], it is presumed that the RE statistic is necessarily less than the r2 statistic — a point we made in MM05a, but which seems to be ignored in the huffing about the supposed primacy of the RE statistic.)

Not exact matches

I would like to see Perry and Bachmann both huff and puff about God and the Bible until they are blue in the face.

Why do we wish to be huffing and puffing about that hypocrisy when the other one, the hypocrisy of saying that Al Qaeda is our enemy, a terrorist organization, while we will support their «freedom fighters» in Syria or Egypt.

So when the public - address announcer, who is about half the age of Max's uniform (the one with the question mark on the back), blows the introduction to the Rock Around the Clock number, Max stalks off the field in a huff.

Another disjointed performance in the middle with flamini flapping around and Ramsey running about like an headless chicken, giroud huffing and puffing going about his usual wedding with the opposition defender, silly flicks and lamppost acts.

A more likely scenario now is that we might very well as soon as this year fall out of the top 4, lose key players like Sanchez and Ozil and probably Bellerin and other special players, see Wenger quit in a huff, replace him with an inexperienced manager and spend years and years dreaming about getting back to a top 4 spot.

And for those who are constantly bashing him about his lack of impact in games, maybe you should watch the Newcastle game again and see how much impact a player like Ozil would have had, a player who can keep possession, drag opposition players out of position and requires constant attention from the opposition to stop him from delivering that one killer pass even if he seems to be having a bad game [I recall Ronaldinho had a relatively quiet game in the 2006 champions league final game, he did just one thing all game, he delivered that pass to Eto'o that got Lehmann sent off, he wasn't huffing and puffing for 90 minutes].

The discussion online seems to be focusing on sugar per se and my feelings about it — as if I just couldn't countenance the number of sugar grams in HISD breakfasts for one more minute, threw up my hands and marched off the committee in a huff.

I hope this is about more than Labour huff verses Tory money; I think Ashcroft has done the blogging world a disservice by buying PoliticsHome and immersing it in controversy needlessly.

That's one reason why the techniques I talk about in the Fitness Doctrine Newsletter have you spending more time huffing an puffing than lying on your back doing sit - ups.

I run a brand in the UK and I also write about other responsible fashion brands for the huff post simply because there are some insanely talented people out there doing such cool things and they deserve some attention.

But the premise that carried the first film (and the original Japanese trilogy and mini-series)-- the idea of a media - borne STD (or drug addiction), transformed here into something carried aloft by the virulence of peer pressure — is instantly discarded along with its deadline gimmick in favour of about two hours of garbage involving killer deer, a somnambulantly - possessed kid (if demonic possession renders your nine - year - old docile as a fawn, that's a trade - off some might be willing to make), and poor Naomi Watts huffing and puffing and delivering awful, repetitive monologues at her catatonic kid.

He eventually leaves in a huff after answering the question of what brought him to the event with a joke about mushrooms and fungi.

But as we start to huff and puff about it, let's bear a few things in mind.

OnStar people huff and puff about 911 Assist probably being less safe, but so far they've come up with zero evidence that many Bluetooth phones lose their connections in crashes, and OnStar crash notification is only as good as your most recent monthly payment.

The Mitsubishi Eclipse was the dream car of just about every gas - huffing, pimply faced high school kid in the 1990s.

About 15 years ago, when the original Lexus RX appeared, I wrote in a huff, «If you think the Hamptons are «the country,» then this is your «off - road» vehicle.»

Just flounce off in a huff, and I'll have no choice but to file you away under «Internet loudmouth: may have a point, but is kind of a childish dick about».

Ania and I went to buy bread and in one block's distance we saw about 15 tales of insanity, drug abuse and poverty: a homeless man with one leg shooting up on the pavement; an old women dragging 50 filthy plastic bags, vomiting into the sewer grate; five tranny hookers sitting in a hotel stairwell, wearing nothing but g - strings, making cat calls at the passing traffic; a crackhead walking in circles, talking out loud to no one in front of a fruit stand; little boys, none older than 11, all huffing shoe glue out of black plastic bags to get a 10 - minute high; and a group of plump ladies sorting through garbage in the street, looking for old produce that can be re-bagged and re-sold at discount prices.

«The trustees, even in the way they resigned, make it so much about themselves and their egos and leaving in a huff that we haven't been able to get a real accounting of the situation,» Gollan said.

John had got in a bit of a huff about being «outed» by Steve.

There's been much huffing and puffing about this, but even Wahl and Ammann conceded that Mann needed the bristlecones to «get» his result in the early portion.

However, and more to the point, both of these structures in fact represent stochastic trends, so I have no clue what all the huffing and puffing is about (well, I do have a clue, but it has nothing to do with science).

Since people are huffing and puffing about ex-prosecutors and ex-defense attorneys being on the Supreme Court (or even as a judges in general), can anyone supply some statistics?

Even though Mr. Suburble occasionally huffs and puffs about a «crowded room», I am decidedly in favour of the coziness....

He stomped up to the barn / stage in a huff to discover about 10 people swaying in the dirt at 4 am while the DJ lay passed out over the mixing whatsit DJs do their thing over.