Sentences with phrase «in sketchy»

«It's one thing to negligently forget your employer's keys while at Starbucks; it's quite another to deliberately hand over the keys in a sketchy part of town to some hoodlums and provide them a map to the employer's office.»

Like, what Aleksandr Kogan was doing, basically using the platform to gather a bunch of information, sell it or share it in some sketchy way.

(I admit that I tried this a few times, and while it did not escalate the situation, it did result in some sketchy looking folks laughing at my earnestness.

Dumas's intense portrait of her daughter, The Painter (1994)-- with its ghostly, unfinished face and feet — is all the more powerful in its sketchy rawness, as is de Kooning's Woman, I (1950 — 51), which hangs next to it on the Breuer's fourth floor.

Rendered in a sketchy, expressive manner on a bubblegum pink background, nude female figures center the chaotic composition and command the viewer's attention.

But new can also have its downside: Construction noise, service issues, and / or locations in sketchy or «upcoming» neighborhoods.

But new can also have its downside: Construction noise, service issues, and / or locations in sketchy or «upcoming» neighborhoods unfamiliar to cab or car drivers.

Either your US debit card didn't work at all, or the international fees were so high you had to pull out hundreds of dollars at a time, thus creating the same cash heavy anxiety while staying in a sketchy hostel or on crowded European streets.

If I feel like a place isn't clean or in a sketchy part of town it totally kills my vibe.

Try to arrive to your destination during the day to avoid being alone in any sketchy areas at night alone.

Kaimi was on his board nearby; the guys never left us alone in sketchy swells.

It goes without saying that you shouldn't go out and buy a stock that's praised in a sketchy e-mail, but some people do, and scammers make millions of dollars off of unsuspecting investors.

The couple decides to buy a house that even though it is in the sketchy neighborhood, they can't turn it down for the great price.

After - school hours spent in sketchy arcades building up the courage to «quarter up» then promptly giving up a double perfect loss when I did.

While Ree is our lead and in every scene, we're as interested in the sketchy world around her as we are in her herself.

Lodged somewhere between Ben Kingsley's prestige projects and his penchant for crude comedy, Sexy Beast casts the veteran actor as Don Logan, a bona fide sociopath who ultimately forces retired ex-con Gal (Ray Winstone) to take part in a sketchy London heist.

She conveys a winning combination of country - honed gumption and deeply abiding faith in this sketchy yet heartfelt biopic based on her son John Carter Cash's memoir.

It's no shock those rival models, who've done time in sketchy LA motels and seedy backroom offices, these desperate statues of beauty, will go to extremes to excise that which hogs the spotlight and Jesse proves that very hog.

It's thoughtful but only in a sketchy way.

But over time, details in the sketchy proofs have been filled in and Shannon's intuitive insights stand confirmed.

Players are also bringing harm to themselves, whether by venturing out late at night, winding up in sketchy areas or just not paying attention to their surroundings.

Location in a sketchy area or having a gun on the premises of a childcare or preschool would be deal - breakers for most parents.

They spend their days scootering around parking lots, chatting up the other bands, riding questionable attractions in sketchy roadside amusement parks.

And I've landed at the island airport in sketchy weather — scariest few minutes of my life.

I was once lost in the sketchy part of town with nothing but a bag of frozen peas and ate nearly the whole thing out of probably fear.

Finally, in this sketchy list of movements toward optimism, the civil rights movement can not be left out.

I should think that this fits Bergson's view in spite of his ingenious argument that we can not foresee the future of an art tradition — an argument that applies to predicting even in some sketchy detail what artworks will be like in the future.

In these sketchy comments I have tried to indicate that constructive postmodernism of the Whiteheadian variety implies a program for public life, as well as that of individuals, that is quite different from the one that our modernist leaders are pursuing.

Ministers also and the laity of the Church will know what is expected of those who hold this office For the present it is possible only to feel after and to describe in sketchy outline what this new conception is, a conception that we may believe is at least as much gift of grace as consequence of sin and perhaps more something produced by historic forces under divine government than the creature of human pride and fickleness.

I'm embedding Twitter feeds below for several subjects that I'll try to keep tracking in that sketchier format.

Not exact matches

Bragging might feel sketchy, but there's increasing evidence to support banging your own gong in a professional context.

Details are sketchy, but sources close to both companies confirmed to Fortune the gist of the announcement to be made in San Francisco next Thursday by Amazon (amzn) Web Services Chief Executive Andy Jassy.

The distribution of cannabis was still stuck in the old street - dealer folkways of pot brokers, burner cell phones, and sketchy handoffs of drugs and cash.

«Most people have done a ton of sketchy business deals, especially in the entertainment space.

With a lower top marginal tax rate you'd induce high income earners who would otherwise engage in all sorts of sketchy (and expensive to implement) schemes to avoid taxes to just pay up and leave it at that.

Facebook's apology come in the form of full - page ads across the major newspaper in circulation, including The New York Times, but it's not clear whether this is helping to ease public unrest over its sketchy data collection.

Even by the standards of the commodity business (and the commodity trading business in particular) Glencore is known for its appetite for political and legal risk, and its willingness to deal with sketchy counterparties.

A new study finds the nation's public pension plans are in worse shape that originally thought due to sketchy accounting practices.

Today's report is one of the first to shed light on the machinations taking place in the shadows: a sketchy digital economy where fake accounts known as bots, some modeled on real users, are bought and sold — the lifeblood of a booming trade in influence and deception.

He hung out with 12 blue - collar dudes for three years and partied with the most sketchy people in society, people who I'm almost positive told jokes crass enough to make your pastor shudder.

His doubts and fears go much deeper than just sketchy evidence, he had something nagging at his conscientiousness that was an echo his days in Seminary.

The BBC's online article, and the brief accompanying video that was presumably aired on the network, were both a bit sketchy in their account of the arguments made by the two sides.

No role in the specification of initial aim is given to the consequent nature, save in a very sketchy way in the late addition of the «fourth phase» (V. 2.7).

But frankly, all the pastors ought to be doing in the first place is being a servant and a slave to others — that's what a pastor is anyway, at least what sketchy little bits of «pastor» roles can be made out in the NT, as it's scarcely mentioned — not necessarily standing up there and teaching everyone two or three times a week, running the show, and acting like some kind of CEO.

I continue to believe that this is possible, even if I have wholly failed in my premature and all too sketchy attempt.

Peter Limper is right to point out, in his perceptive review of MP, that my handling of that theme in the latter part of the book is too sketchy (PS 6:214 - 20).

Our knowledge of Jerusalem and Judaism in the second century is at best sketchy.

The Gospel of Mark also presupposed the conditions of life in Palestine in Jesus» day: but the book could be understood by readers with only the scantiest and sketchiest knowledge of things Palestinian.

The result would be some very sketchy notes about two petty kingdoms that show up occasionally in inscriptions from the ninth century BC and afterwards.

In sum, while we probably have as much information about Jesus as any other historical figure of his time, the information is sketchy and, above all, filtered through the minds and the culture of the early Christian community.