Sentences with phrase «jerk from»

Your antagonist is there - that jerk from the other department.

Indeed, it begins to seem more like a knee - jerk from people who simply knew they were going to find something in the science Chevron presented to disagree with.

There's also tilt controls included, but like usual they're just a pointless gimmick added to goof around with, and while they work OK, (since the speed is still determined by holding down the A button, meaning you thankfully can't suddenly jerk it from one side to another) I can't help but feel an option to stop the pausing would have been more appreciated.

One thing that struck out to me as interesting in the sneak peek was that Liz now considers Bruce Patman, the rich boy jerk from the original novels, to be her best friend.

There is a small jerk from 1st to 2nd gear only; the other shifts are fine.

Ant - Man is such a profoundly generic and dull film, but it manages to jerk itself from its cinematic slumber in fits and starts, and in nearly every case, Luis is at the center of it all when it happens.

Toby Kebbell (aka the jerk from «Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes «-RRB- is joining Felicity Jones, Liam Neeson and Sigourney Weaver in Juan Antonio Bayona «s «A Monster Calls.»

Basically, that meant that at a time, Cooper was seen as the nice guy from Alias then the jerk from Wedding Crashers and then the good looking smart alec from The Hangover.

Good sense of humor highly intuitive with a unique personality around me long enough I'll grow on you I can be smart ass or a Lil jerk from time to time.

I held out my nacho cheese Dorito, and the jerk from Texas dribbled a few drops on the edge (oh, he wouldn't let anyone touch his bottle).

The other boys nodded solemnly, and the jerk from Texas locked his eyes on me as he shook the bottle and then slowly unscrewed it.

«So he, you know, he's famous for being a bit of a jerk from time to time, and I think that was part of the package deal.

In Sport — a medium - aggressive (paddle - shifting) option among its four drive modes — it jolts and jerks from first to second and from second to third gear.

Johnson was in the midst of a media scrum post-race when Biffle jerked him from behind to confront the five - time champion.

Kids who are learning to walk are called «toddlers» because that's exactly what they do — they toddle, keeping their legs wide apart and seeming to hesitate between each step, jerking from side to side as they move one foot forward, then the next.

The air filled tires provide good suspension and prevent the jerks from reaching the kids even when they are strolled on bumpy roads.

Hockey fans want to see their favorite players gliding effortlessly across the ice, not spastically jerking from end to end.

Moonlighting playwright Martin McDonagh quickly yanked a trapdoor on his gallows humor — jerking from wry cringe comedy to a surreal congregation of blinded skinheads, fat Americans and midgets on drug benders before a violent, solemn climactic parable about purgatory.

It's a style that slashes the action into tiny, 3 - second segments that make it impossible to follow what's happening, with the perspective jerking from here to there for no discernible reason, other than to disguise the stunt players and whatever computer - graphic shots may have been inserted to fill them out.

Because of the jerking from the shifting of the transmission it can easily result in an accident.

Mollel feels his head jerked from side to side, up and down.

They will help you weed out the jerks from the good guys.

The great suspensions absorb the jerks from jarring terrain.

Not exact matches

We yank our hands away from hot stoves, leap in panicked jerks out of the path of on - coming traffic as the freak - out motorist careens wildly through traffic to avoid us.

The easy, knee - jerk alternative (banning phones) demoralizes good employees who need to check their phones periodically due to pressing family or health issues or as an appropriate break from work.

Following this advice will not only prevent you from coming off like a jerk, but actually make you memorable.

For instance, Robbins and Finley suggest various approaches for dealing with a «team jerk» (that is, a crew member with essential knowledge but no social skills), including ways to gently ease the offending party elsewhere: «Set him apart from the core team, as a valued resource member... Give him an office in a separate building, or on a separate continent, even.

Dr. Gary Namie, president of workplace - bullying consulting firm Work Doctor and co-author of the new book The Bully - Free Workplace: Stop Jerks, Snakes, Weasels, and Snakes from Killing Your Organization, says there are three workplace trends that should make you wonder whether you're terrorizing your staff.

The popular mood in Russia appears to be different from the government's knee - jerk reaction, however.

Inches from the decoy car, I let out a shriek as the automatic brake kicks in, jerking the Fusion to a sudden halt.

Christopher Pissarides, a professor of economics at the London School of Economics, said Trump was having a «knee - jerk reaction» to certain groups of Americans who did not benefit from the past several decades of open trade.

Tariffs «really jerked the rug out from under us at a critical time in our growth.»

Snapchat co-founder and self - described «jerk,» Evan Spiegel has been a shameless frat boy from the start, and there are leaked emails to prove it.

Unfortunately, if you believe that the rich are jerks, you will subconsciously block yourself from becoming rich simply because you don't want to be a jerk.

Of course, managing to wring the most value from your unhappy customers requires you to master the knee jerk defensiveness in the face of criticism that nearly all of us suffer from and actually listen to what this angry or upset person is telling you.

De drew directly from his experience at the NSA when explaining that knee - jerk reactions to share too much and too little information with the public are dangerous.

It is an extraordinary document, 124 slides in all, covering everything from its salaries (it pays employees what it believes a competitor trying to poach them would) to why it rejects «brilliant jerks» («cost to effective teamwork is too high»).

The company's restaurants feature a variety of menu items, including its Buffalo, New York - style chicken wings spun in one of its signature sauces from sweet to screamin» hot, sweet BBQ, teriyaki, mild, parmesan garlic, medium, honey BBQ, spicy garlic, jammin» jalapeno, asian zing, caribbean jerk, thai curry, hot BBQ, hot, mango habanero, wild and blazin, signature seasonings, including buffalo, desert heat, chipotle BBQ, and salt and vinegar, a wide variety of food items, including sharable appetizers, wild flatbreads, specialty hamburgers and sandwiches, wraps, buffalito soft tacos, and salads, and a full bar, which offers an extensive selection of domestic, imported, and craft beers on tap, as well as bottled beers, wine and liquor.

«From my father I had learned that most great mathematicians were nasty guys and total jerks (check out Isaac Newton... extra nasty guy), but when I read the Fermat - Pascal letters, you could see that Fermat was an exception to the stereotype... truly a noble person.

This keeps you from making hasty decisions based on knee - jerk reactions to standard business hiccups.

But Pollard doesn't see much long - term planning going on, but rather a «knee - jerk reaction» in the industry «because of how fast the bottom's been pulled out from underneath them.»

A good way to combat these kinds of knee - jerk decisions is to slow down thinking and separate fact from fiction.

From Bet: Finally, if a woman IS an irresponsible jerk with no regard for the consequences of her actions, why would you want her raising a baby anyway?

-- From an atheist who spent her years asking God to reveal himself, and got nothing but silence, to you, an arrogant jerk.

So today, America's conservatives need less of the Reagan-esque optimism and the knee - jerk patriotism and more of the hard wisdom about democracy one gains from political philosophy, and from a more realistic assessment of our own history.

Fine demands from your vicious, vindictive jerk of a sky fairy like these:

It is important to note that Jahi's digits did not «jerk» or «twitch» during the movement, as one would expect from an involuntary action.

Typical knee - jerk response from a jerk.

I can see how the knee jerk reaction is to «prevent people from doing X.», but taking away peoples freedom to live their lives they way they want isn't the answer.

The author believes that Wesley can support Wesleyan evangelicals and free them from their tendency to knee - jerk conservatism, moralism, and negativism.