Sentences with phrase «in this funk for»

Hong Kong winter had me in a funk for a little while.

I was in a funk for most of it and kind of crabby, which I'm sure is partly due to the transitional weather that seems to drag on when spring is tantalizingly close.

With over-consumption, many debts will get compromised, lenders may be in a funk for a time, but there should be cleaner ways of clearing away and paying off the overindebtedness.

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For example, Dubner finds out why the mattress industry is booming when people buy few mattresses in their lifetime, and why «the American economy is a funk — but not for the reasons you think.&raqFor example, Dubner finds out why the mattress industry is booming when people buy few mattresses in their lifetime, and why «the American economy is a funk — but not for the reasons you think.&raqfor the reasons you think.»

Finally, a few days into my funk, one of my housemates recited Psalm 86:5 as our verse before our evening meal: «For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.»

I went through quite a reading funk with books, so to have two good reads in a row is for sure a marvelous thing.

I really need to get back to the fitter me and I have lots of incentives this year to do it, but I feel in such a funk about sorting things out and I find myself reaching for the comforting food.

Lucky for them, Captain Apuli has led many of Teams in the past and knows how to get his Team out of a funk.

If they don't get out of this funk, I could see the push for a playoff spot taking a whole lot longer than necessary, and making it in as a WC2 is not totally out of the question.

No one knows it, but part of the reason for the Giants going south after the All - Star break is that whenever my 20 - year - old son, Sean, sees them in person, they lose and go into a long funk.

At a rally for Mr. Liu at the Apollo Theater last month, Mr. Seabrook all but stole the show, swaggering on stage to piped - in funk music and declaring, with a preacher's cadence, that all of Mr. Liu's Democratic rivals were «phony characters» that the comptroller «could not lose» to.

American soul - influenced funk group that formed in the early 1970s Cameo performed live on stage for the first time in Nigeria with the veteran artist King Sunny Ade ending the show in grand style.

«I was in a funk after this for a good bit.»

FUNK: To observe these gamma rays in space, you need a special telescope and you need a detector on the telescope that is sensitive to gamma rays with the energy predicted for this process.

If I don't have that for a week, I start to get more agitated and impatient; I get in a funk,» Duff told Health.

I need to be spoken aggressively to in order to get out of my funks an this podcast does that perfectly for me.

For the few weeks leading up to the eclipse, I had been feeling like I was in a serious funk.

This past month has been full of amazing discoveries for me in the form of your post, discovering The Naked Face Project, reading The Clothes Make the Girl, and generally reading, reading, reading to help get my 48 - year old self out of a funk.

Young boys want some funk style elemant in everything and such bold and daring outfit is an easy pick for them.

I then threw in my favorite pave leopard print ring from Express for some added funk!

I'm realizing though that I'm in a bit of blogging funk and in thinking about it all I can come up with is a fear that the remix creates a sort of in - group of bloggers visiting other remixers (and I'll temporarily lose some of my usual audience) It's like preaching to the choir or writers who only write for other writers.

I've been in a funk where I lost my passion for what it was I was doing.

I spent the weekend in beautiful Santa Barbara with some lovely friends, and we had such a fun time hiking, playing tennis, exploring the «funk zone» (essentially a mecca for fish tacos and craft breweries), and soaking up the southern California sun.

I also go check out different coffee shops if I'm feeling in a funk (it is so easy to go DAYS without leaving your house) and want a change of scenery, even if it's only for an hour or two to just have a cup of coffee go through emails.

«Bare Bones A luxury scarf / shawl for the obsessively passionate, with a vibe of downtown funk, and believes in the power of possibility.

I've been in funk ever since we almost missed our flight had to take a 50 euro Uber got back, so I'm off to stuff my face with some wine and a sad American excuse for pan au chocolat.

I need something to train for because I have been in an exercise funk!

We can get you out of the funk, and that's what the tips in this guide are for.

«Look for the lesson in what you're going through,» she told someone who felt down about life in general, «and recognize that you are probably being prepared for greater things and realize that this funk is keeping you from achieving those things.

You don't have to like it but dealing with it in a positive manner will keep you from getting into a dating funk or giving up on finding an awesome older woman for casual encounters or a long - term relationship.

when i finished the game it left me in a funk looking for my next adventure.

Snapping out of his funk, he pays the confused cashier, walks to his car, and hallucinates his ex-lover Laura (Mary Beth Hurt) sitting in the back seat waiting for him.

This time out, a selection of John Denver and Creedence Clearwater Revival tracks sub in for Sinatra to complement another slick, sparsely deployed funk score by Cliff Martinez.

Electronic dance stars Daft Punk have reteamed with funk legend Nile Rodgers to create a short film for his first Chic album in over two decades.The...

To hear Williams and Forsythe tell it, the making of the film was a dream come true, after which they continued with their careers and saw from the sidelines the heartbreak that followed the production: the death of Hayden in 1983 from a heroin overdose, the mutilation of the film for U.S. distribution, which threw director Sergio Leone into an understandable funk, and more.

In fact, James Brown was so unique he developed a new genre called «funk» that has literally become an ingredient for much of the music we hear today.

by Walter Chaw Yôko Kanno's soundtrack for Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (hereafter Cowboy Bebop) is a jubilant a blend of funk, jazz, blues, soul, and punk that soars even though it's a pale shadow of the «bebop» innovated by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Bud Powell (and Kenny Clarke and Max Roach) in Minton's Playhouse in the early 1940s.

The plot is literally non-existent for most of the running length, leaving long sequences for side antics like watching Jon Favreau (Swingers, Made) get stoned, or in seeing George Clinton and the P - Funk All - Stars jam a few funk tunes.

Selznick simply isn't that good of a screenwriter, constantly having his characters write something down, show it to the screen and then say it out loud in a maddening dollop of redundancy, and Haynes often gives those sequences a bizarre 70's exploitation feel with afros aplenty and a glaringly terrible funk soundtrack that makes you pine for the silent era all the more.

Doesn't matter, as in the place of all that stuff about internment camps that so beautifully complicated the 1984 flick is the drama of Mr. Han née Miyagi (Jackie Chan) losing control of his car on a dark and stormy night (because just as every chink knows kung fu, none of them can drive — Han totals a car in the film while it's parked in his living room), thus opening the door for a ragamuffin to come calling like some funked - up changeling.

In a period movie that uses sound and music to distinguish its eras, Haynes leaned on key pop songs to establish tone — for the»70s, he cues up David Bowie's «Space Oddity,» Esther Phillips's «All the Way Down,» Rose Royce's «Sunrise,» Sweet's «Fox on the Run,» and a spectacular deployment of Eumir Deodato's 1973 jazz - funk take on Richard Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra.

Director Sagal (Night Gallery, Girl Happy), working with the script by the Corringtons (Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Boxcar Bertha), brings Matheson's story to the 1970s, complete with hip jazz - funk soundtrack, blaxploitation elements, and hippie jargon and tie - ins.

This could have been accomplished by making a couple of the «action» sequences significantly more exciting, or a few of the pivotal character moments more convincing, in order to help break audiences out of the repetitive funk the storyline wallows in for the majority of the proceedings.

* Amendment 20th July 2017 - I have changed the name of the artist for uptown funk - I must have left in last year's name when I was overwriting the slides!

rather than get mired down in a blue funk for a few days engaging in «Well, if we'd done this instead of that,»» she says.

MOLLY FUNK (@mollyfunk): We should be communicating in the most comfortable language for the families AND providing supports for the adults in English development and understanding of American school.

Adding some funk to its entry - level offering in the country, Toyota India has launched the Etios Liva special edition for this festive season with prices starting at Rs. 5.76 lakhs (ex-showroom, Delhi).

I'm not too proud to admit my brain is still in that post-publication funk, a funk aided by the fact my work computer (a really nice Asus ROG less than 7 months old) had to be sent back to ASUS for warranty work.

Many, many writer friends — especially indie authors — have mentioned the need to refill the creative well, take a break, or even just «be in a funk» for a while.

Even if the domestic US economy is in a funk, it is possible for sectors that serve other countries that are growing to do well.