Sentences with phrase «in gossip about»

And when we get together, we can definitely bring up that time what's - her - name flirted with my boyfriend after cheerleading practice, or indulge in gossip about lives of people we both knew back then, or laugh about nights filled with too much wine.

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Lousy financials don't kill morale, it's the whispering gossip about what might be in the financials that kills morale.

Every workplace will have a certain amount of gossiping, but if one of your employees enjoys reporting bad news about you, others in your company, or even the competition, that's destructive behavior and you need to do something about it.

According to emails revealed in 2016 by Gawker, former State Department official Philippe Reines gossiped with reporters about Rosen's behavior, saying he was removed from the State Department bureau after he allegedly harassed another employee there.

His hubris, on full display as he preens and gossips and makes catty remarks about Trump's spray tan and hand size, quite possibly put this man he considers a dangerous buffoon in office.

In order to maintain a cohesive team, do not spread gossip, cause another to feel like an outcast, or grumble about petty things.

Pishevar alleged in the lawsuit that they orchestrated «a malicious smear campaign, apparently designed to incite false, defamatory, and highly damaging chatter and gossip about Mr. Pishevar.»

While not all gossip is bad — one can share secrets about wonderful things like a suspected pregnancy or job promotion — Epstein points out that «useful gossip is, in the minds of most people, not what gossip is really about,» and so the majority of the book focuses on the more naughty kind of tattling, the kind that makes your heart beat faster when the subject of ridicule comes around the corner.

In fact, one Yale study suggests that those not participating in the lunch - line prattle may be missing out on crucial information about people's trustworthiness; to refuse to engage in gossip at all can be» unhealthy and abnormal.&raquIn fact, one Yale study suggests that those not participating in the lunch - line prattle may be missing out on crucial information about people's trustworthiness; to refuse to engage in gossip at all can be» unhealthy and abnormal.&raquin the lunch - line prattle may be missing out on crucial information about people's trustworthiness; to refuse to engage in gossip at all can be» unhealthy and abnormal.&raquin gossip at all can be» unhealthy and abnormal.»

Because as much as Gossip the book is about the popularization of back - fence talk and the search for a reason why one of the world's most compelling pastimes is so pleasurable, it's also about admitting that people just can't keep secrets; they don't want to, and we might as well embrace the fact that they'll keep fewer and fewer in the future unless we collectively settle on some new etiquette.

When San Francisco - based designer Jennifer Bennett wrote a blog post about the fashions on TV's Gossip Girl, she didn't expect her product line to end up starring in several episodes.

In other words, gossiping about someone helps you retrieve the information you have on them.

By the flip of a coin, some participants read that Barbara began engaging in small nasty behaviors, such as gossiping about others or cutting in line.

We all may laugh or gossip about Zirtual's demise, but how confident are you in your own financial SaaS metric calculations?

Even here in the real world, there's no shortage of gossip about the CEO and the underling, shunted to a dreary regional outpost under mysterious circumstances.

Get all the latest gossip about who fancies who in political Berlin at Damien McGuinness» latest Stammtisch with political hearthrobs co-host Jeremy Cliffe, Elisabeth Niejahr and Charlotte Potts.

I tend to fall more towards the practical in this situation and rather than gossip about it will continue to focus on making Online Marketing Blog a useful resource to our clients, our team at TopRank and anyone else in the search marketing industry that finds it useful.

They seem to be masters at taking a normal conversation and slipping in «information» about someone, which is really gossip.

In discussing the ramifications of this, Bion observed that effective groups often develop elaborate structures, designed to keep their sophisticated goals from being derailed by more primal group activities like gossiping about members and vilifying non-members.»

I would also acknowledge that Julie speaking up in this forum did in fact mediate several apologies from two or three people who independently gossiped about her.

But after being on the receiving end of celebrity gossip from tabloids, she had an interesting tweet in response to social media trolls perpetuating rumors: Listen to worship music, pray and worry about yourself.

Possibly you have just voiced your complaints to a supportive ear (gossip) about specific musicians in your church community who are out - of - date.

When they curse you, and gossip about you, and spread vile rumors about you, say good things about them in return.

Explain where God is in the parents that are told to reject their ho mo se xu al children, or in the huge sanctuary full of people that spend their time gossiping about and insulting one another.

There are other sins described that are not God's best that in modern culture have been accepted, divorce, adultery gossiping etc. it doesn't change what God says about these things either.

Standing in the supermarket checkout I never fail to be amazed by the number of magazines dedicated to gossip about the famous and infamous.

You should not gossip about or slander anyone in the church, or try to take other people with you.

They gossip, they group for power, they speak of Gods» love to the right and to the left say untrue words about each other in an attempt to wound.

How would you respond if you heard that the lady down the street who always spreads gossip about you got in a car accident and is in the hospital?

How would you respond if you heard that the lady down the street who spreads gossip about you slipped on some ice and is in the hospital?

I walked into a church one and saw allot of gold and silver all over the place in the church and outside the church was a dunkin donuts and there was a homeless man that used to come in all the time no one used to help this homeless man and most of the people that went to this dunkin donuts were from the church the older people used to talk bad about the homeless man and they would continue to talk about the man behind the homeless mans back when they would go to the church, to me that right there is part of the seven deadly sins Gossip allot of churches do this.

Feelings of regret, anger and disbelief collide in one single moment of realization: How could this person slander and gossip about me?

I've known Jesus for as long as I've known my name, and still I use other people like capital to advance my own interest, still I gossip to make myself feel important, still I curse my brothers and sisters in one breath and sing praise songs in the next, still I sit in church with arms folded and cynicism coursing through my bloodstream, still I talk a big game about caring for the poor without doing much to change my own habits, still I indulge in food I'm not hungry for and jewelry I don't need, still I obsess over what people say about me on the internet, still I forget my own privilege, still I talk more than I listen and complain more than I thank, still I commit acts of evil, still I make a great commenter on Christianity and a lousy practitioner of it.

Until then your «opinion» is worthless for no more than idle debate on here, or in your favorite meeting place where you sit and gossip about how perfect your world is and how God himself has placed you on that mountain to dictate his rules to the world because your so clean of any sin.

I'm afraid your right about the creeds, The Lords prayer and sometimes the ten commandments plus the rest of the liturgy, we speak out as fast as possible so we can get home a bit earlier, or get to talking the latest bit of juicy gossip as we sit and drink coffee after the service in our plush cafe areas.

Taking as his text, «Speak evil of no man» (Titus 3:2), Tillotson goes on interestingly enough about the sins of gossip and slander, and concludes with this: «I foresee what will be said, because I have heard it so often said in the like case, that there is not a word of Jesus Christ in all this.

Pastor Tim Challies has argued that «thinking biblically» about the SGM lawsuit — which alleges that the leadership of SGM covered up the abuse of children by discouraging parents from reporting abuse to authorities and requiring victims to forgive their abusers in person — means keeping quiet about it in order to avoid «gossip.»

For all that fretting about how the Millennial generation is too busy tweeting, texting, blogging and catching up on episodes of Gossip Girl to have time for books, new studies find that they're actually doing the most reading in America.

Because, in the end, it's not just about how damaging gossip can be to us and the world around us.

Or maybe instead of your neighbor, you have said this about an in - law, the church gossip, or a rude deacon.

It is because of prayer meetings that we feel justified in spreading gossip about others while calling it «sharing a prayer request.»

Josh Duggar, 27, the eldest child in the Duggar family of 19 Kids and Counting, apologized for acting «inexcusably» after InTouch, a gossip website, revealed that he had «forcibly fondled» 5 girls, all minors, when he was about 15 years old.

Another way to ask this is, «What was your response the last time you were in the presence of a person who gossiped about someone else?»

A Modest Defense of Gossip, Rudeness, and Other Bad Habits by Emrys Westacott Princeton, 304 pages, $ 26.95 In The Virtues of Our Vices, Emrys Westacott eschews academic theorizing about hypothetical life - and - death moral dilemmas (such as the «trolley problem»)....

I also noticed that right after Paul talks about homosexuality in Romans 1:26, he refers to greed, envy, arrogance, and gossip as sins punishable by spiritual death.

It's really unfortunate that voters in the South — and Evangelical voters in particular — continue to get their ideas about Mormons from gossip and hearsay.

When I imagined what it would be like to give generously without wondering what is in it for me, to give up my grudges and learn to diffuse hatred with love, to stop judging other people once and for all, to care for the poor and seek out the downtrodden, to finally believe that stuff can't make me happy, to give up my urge to gossip and manipulate, to worry less about what other people think, to refuse to retaliate no matter the cost, to be capable of forgiving to the point of death, to live as Jesus lived and love as Jesus loved, one word came to my mind: liberation.

Third, I am not interested in giving you ammunition to a) gossip to others about and b) use as psychological blackmail against me.

You are willing to spread lies about her - gossip wench that you have proven to be all because she believes in joining the 21st century.

A true muslim's nature is to be quiet and humble and avoid involving themselves in gossip or «backbiting»... meaning negative talk about ANYONE... which maybe explains the perceived silence by mainstream muslims.