Sentences with phrase «in this gossip of»

He's a little bit the same in relation to other players that are involved in this gossip of the transfer market.»

For more than a week, Paterson has been under intense pressure to respond to rumors about him that have played out not in the gossip of political insiders but on the front pages of the New York tabloids.

Story: After being forced out of New York due to various infidelities, Mrs. Erlyne (Helen Hunt) travels to the coast of Italy, where she gets caught up in the gossip of the region's upper class clientele by disrupting the marriage of Robert Windermere and his wife Meg (Scarlett Johansson), while trying to fend off the advances of the lovelorn Lord Augustus (Tom Wilkinson).

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None of this is to say anyone is justified in behaving like a high school bully; successful gossips know their audience and use their powers for good.

We even gossip in writing — fifteen per cent of emails are gossip according to research by Georgia Tech.

But before you give the fire - away command to your unsuspecting employees, keep in mind that there are actually two kinds of gossip, and only one of them is useful.

Office gossip, like nearly every social interaction, in or out of the office, follows a pretty basic formula.

In 2013, you gave a TED Talk in Vancouver on the social value of gossip and also the attached stigmIn 2013, you gave a TED Talk in Vancouver on the social value of gossip and also the attached stigmin Vancouver on the social value of gossip and also the attached stigma.

There has been academic research that speaks to the value of gossip in our society.

Some of Canada's bloodiest corporate battles have involved family members duking it out in epic rifts that enriched lawyers and filled the business pages with juicy corporate gossip.

Managers that participate in gossip create an environment of mistrust and fear, preventing open dialogue.

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.

Don't participate in gossiping which can be hard to resist, depending on the subject of the conversation.

Example: Four women were fired in New Hampshire in 2007 «in part for gossiping and discussing rumors of an improper relationship between the town administrator and another employee that residents now agree were not true.»

Last week, in a bit of juicy tech gossip, Business Insider leaked an internal memo from Y Combinator founder Paul Graham in which he urged his incubator's start - ups to stay away from Google Ventures.

This kind of salary transparency quells the gossip mill and exaggerations over who is making what, and leads to «greater justice» in compensation.

Verdict: It's probably not advisable in terms of the gossip that will occur.

Some researchers suggest that gossip not only gives people a better idea of what's going on around them in their social circles and at work, but also helps people feel more involved in events.

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.

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.

And then there's the increasing role of social media in propagating gossip, «sometimes accompanied by photographs of their authors, drunk or naked or in other forms of moral dishabille.»

His notorious claims to fame in the media and gossip pages, were of course the $ 15,000 umbrella stand and $ 6,000 shower curtain that he and his now ex-wife had adorned throughout their apartment.

But in July 2013, screenshots of an explicit conversation between Weiner and a 22 - year - old woman surfaced on a gossip website.

Two years later, in the midst of Weiner's second run for New York City mayor, screenshots of an explicit conversation between Weiner and a 22 - year - old woman surfaced on a gossip website.

Given that Facebook helps keep us connected but can also expose us to many social stressors, like envy and gossip, the researchers, led by Eric Vanman at the University of Queensland, expected to find a Facebook break would be associated with a drop in life - satisfaction, but also a reduction in stress levels.

You and your team will begin to see improved communications and better team performance in the absence of gossip and ghosts.

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.

And, considering that nearly half of employers (44 percent) studied (in a 2015 Careerbuilder survey of more than 2,000 U.S. hiring and HR managers) said they would think twice before moving an employee who gossips up the ranks, such office chitchat does more harm than good, right?

The more transparent a company is, the less of a need there is to speculate and participate in office gossip.

A company's leadership often plays a substantial role in the creation (and elimination) of workplace gossip; thus, it's largely up to employers to get rid of the negative effects of everyday small talk.

In fact, the BambooHR study found that 18 percent of employees surveyed thought workplace gossip enhanced their overall performance.

Wallowing in talk of other people's misdeeds or misfortunes may end up hurting their feelings if the gossip ever finds its way to them, but gossiping is guaranteed to make you look negative and spiteful every time.

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.

There was wrestling history, videos of Hogan yukking it up with Howard Stern and, most notably, howGawker — a 12 - year - old news and gossip website in New York City — does journalism differently from legacy media.

The powerful Cyberspace Administration — the ultimate authority over what is online in China — also shut down dozens of blogs and social media accounts for covering celebrity news and gossip that month.

The Smoking Gun's William Bastone posted a photo of Trump and Daniels together during a celebrity golf tournament in 2006, and an author at the gossip website the Dirty had posted a thinly sourced item alleging the affair back in 2011.

In the wake of the New York Times's explosive report alleging that megaproducer and Miramax co-founder Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed and assaulted dozens of women over decades as one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, there's been one overwhelming reaction from industry insiders and dedicated celebrity gossip readers: FinallIn the wake of the New York Times's explosive report alleging that megaproducer and Miramax co-founder Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed and assaulted dozens of women over decades as one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, there's been one overwhelming reaction from industry insiders and dedicated celebrity gossip readers: Finallin Hollywood, there's been one overwhelming reaction from industry insiders and dedicated celebrity gossip readers: Finally.

Georgette Blau, 34, is president of On Location Tours in Midtown Manhattan, which gives bus tours of New York locations from popular movies and television shows like «Sex and the City,» «Gossip Girl» and «Confessions of a Shopaholic.»

Uganda is proposing a tax on social media use in a bid to curb gossip online and to raise billions of shillings in government revenue.

It has become a staple of pop culture, appearing in everything from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and «Gossip Girl» to «The Sopranos.»

The Gawker Media founder and C.E.O.'s opponent: celebrated professional wrestler Hulk Hogan (real name: Terry Bollea), who sued Denton and Gawker in 2012 after the gossip blog published a supercut of his sex tape and refused to take it down.

The currency news was edged out by entertainment gossip, crime, the explosion in the harbour city of Tianjin and a NASA robot cruising the planet Mars transmitting an image of what looked like a woman, the website showed.

We have distracted them with talk of bank bail - ins and other financial gossip to keep their thinking off of what is actually a much more profound and necessary outcome: government bail - ins.

Otherwise, I would suggest you to move to showbiz blogs (where gossips and rumors dominate) or gaming sites (where children make use of their spare time) and leave us all adults here in peace.

All I'm trying to say here is that when I'm told to love God with my whole heart, soul and mind, and to love my neighbor as myself, and to forgive others unconditionally, and to love my wife unconditionally, and to be kind and compassionate to others and to love my en emies and to take care of orphans and to feed the hungry and not to li e or to e nvy or be boastful or arro gant or hypoc ritical or a gossip or proud, and when I'm told that God demonstrated his love for us in that while we were still in s in, Christ di ed for us, I realize that these things have no relevance to the grie vances I find in» religion.»

All of us like a personal world — we revel in gossip, in the Nixon of the bedroom and the White House chapel.

This is why gossip is included in the Pauline list of evils.

• Murasaki Shikibu, The Diary of Lady Murasaki: Needless to say, The Tale of Genji is the greatest literary achievement of the glorious Heian period of Japanese high culture, and one of the greatest novels ever written, and so I win no points for needless obscurity here, but having recommended Lady Sarashina's journal above, I would be remiss in failing to recommend Lady Murasaki's equally (but very differently) lovely collection of vignettes and meditations and acute observations (and gossip).

In my view, this means First Things was in this instance no better than an intellectualized version of a gossip magazine at a grocery store checkouIn my view, this means First Things was in this instance no better than an intellectualized version of a gossip magazine at a grocery store checkouin this instance no better than an intellectualized version of a gossip magazine at a grocery store checkout.

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.»