Sentences with phrase «jumpy at»

It is a mild statement, devoid of venom, yet investors get jumpy at the idea of heightened scrutiny.

The transmission can be jumpy at times of lower speeds.

Then there's the torsion beam rear suspension that didn't cope with bumps very well for a rear that's downright jumpy at times.

The Audi S1 needed this all - wheel drive platform to become a proper model, but engineering costs needed to produce it cause Volkswagen to get a little jumpy at the thought.

Veteran U.S. stars Beth Daniel, Betsy King and Patty Sheehan were all jumpy at The Greenbrier, and Mochrie was painfully aware that as perhaps the best woman player in the world going into the 1992 event, she had succumbed to pressure and fatigue and failed to win a point.

Not exact matches

The S&P 500 has moved at least 1 percent on nine of the past 12 trading days, an unusual clustering of jumpy action.

First, these are jumpy, monthly numbers, so you want to look at the longer - term trend, and second, the bit about prices falling is particularly weird.

We've all experienced lecturers with jumpy trigger fingers, racing through PowerPoint slides at a rate of knots.

You're right, just looking at these photos and I get jumpy feelings in my stomach.

Fascinating but often frustrating, this Australian co-production rips along at a frenetic pace with edge - of - seat thrills as the action hots up, but loses its sizzle by a jumpy, clumsy screenplay and direction

Avoid it at all costs, unless you get a kick out of films with horribly jumpy storylines and poor acting.

Some of the horror is handled well, with one or two creepy moments and the director might come into his own at some point, but it's mainly just jumpy moments (lame) and besides the characters are so daft you can't get into it.

While Anna Paquin's performance was jumpy and uneven at times, she was able to carry the film and keep interest as a main character.

Harrelson is at his most menacing here, and even has Dafoe's character a bit jumpy.

Bryan Bertino's 2008 horror movie The Strangers managed to make a home - invasion story extra spooky thanks to the way it avoided unnecessary effects and jumpy musical cues, and this trailer for Johannes Roberts» sequel (The Strangers: Prey At Night) takes a similarly direct approach to scares.

He impresses, bringing depth to what at first glance is nothing more than a jumpy, rebellious smartass.

With abrupt cuts in music, jumpy editing that includes needless insertions of old images and footage, and random fading to black, the film feels a bit all over the place at times.

In a jumpy, disorienting sequence, we see Dre at the wheel, his cretinous buddy Kevin (J. Michael Trautmann) beside him, and two terrified college girls, Carly and Lena, in the back seat, Lena bleeding from a Kevin - induced gun wound.

It works best when you're flat - out and rolling quickly from one direction to the other, where it's positive and amazingly direct, but it feels really jumpy and unnatural at lower speeds.

The revised steering is much heavier than I remember, especially at idle and low speed, but it's also less jumpy and more linear in its response, so you feel much more connected to this SLR than the standard car.

At higher speeds such as freeway driving, the Spark can feel jumpy.

At least with gold, you have jewelers demanding it to turn it into jewelry, and a broader pool of people who are somewhat less jumpy about what the proper exchange rate between gold and dollars should be.

An adolescent dog can be rowdier, mouthier, jumpier, and more obnoxious than at any other time in his life.

For example, at the end of a play date at the dog park, i begin to put her leash on and tug her away to leave and she almost always gets vocal, jumpy, snappy, and all around aggressive with the other dog until we are a couple feet away and then she is 100 % fine again.

Dogs that are tense, jumpy, or nervous urinators, and dogs that hide when company comes or growl at other dogs on walks definitely need structure.

There is a suite of behaviour problems that can seemingly be solved through management, but at great cost to the dog's quality of life: play issues, aggressive guarding of chew items, and jumpy and mouthy dogs, to name a few.

As long as it does nt try to startle you for cheap scares liek doom 3, as Im a not jumpy person at all.

If you long ago gave up on him as a one - idea artist, based on overexposure to his «Elegy to the Spanish Republic» series, have a look at this jumpy, mettlesome early stuff.

And because we often think of our business as our baby, it's easy to see the path from being a baby at start up to a jumpy adolescent to a confident, sassy young adult.

That isn't to say that those monitors are useless for everything, but a really low refresh rate, say 30hz, is going to get really annoying over time as things will be very jumpy and jittery on the screen — and those cheaper monitors are pretty much useless for most PC gaming, at least when they are running at the higher resolution.

Moving between tracks, albums and songs is a frustratingly slow and jumpy experience and the quality emitted from the internal speaker and the bundled in headphones is poor at best.

Jumpy lower quality video from cell phone cameras and basic point and shoot cameras will only serve to distract buyers or to cause them to not bother looking at the marketing for more than a few seconds which is not enough to get their attention.