Sentences with phrase «kind of a hard sell»

«I think on minimum wage, it's kind of a hard sell in the Senate.

When a trashy paperback costs as much as a monthly subscription to Netflix, it's kind of a hard sell.

The Carson camp, on the other hand declined to use Cambridge's embeds, despite what one campaign consultant called a «kind of hard sell» by Cambridge.

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The winter months are hard on my banana addiction — I can't get them to ripen fast enough and the stores sell green ones I should probably just buy way more than I need so that they can ripen at home, but I haven't figured out how many that'll take, or what kind of intervals I should buy them in.

Kind of makes this dish taste a little bit like dessert rather than Brussels sprouts, at least that was my intention even though I'm not sure my kids were quite sold (it's really hard to hide Brussels sprouts from kids!).

This makes it hard for headline writers, says Mr Easton, and politicians, who, unfortunately, usually need some kind of narrative to sell us when they adopt a particular policy or strategy.

It's kind of funny how items that were considered an absolute no - go just some seasons ago suddenly are sold out everywhere — just like this S.Oliver shirt I'm wearing today and which kind of played hard to get.

By now, just about every electronic device capable of doing so has been infected with a three - match game of one kind or another and it's not hard to understand why, because simply put «it sells».

Those reshoots were deemed necessary after video surfaced of Lawley making racist remarks, and it's sure hard to sell a topical movie like this one with that kind of cloud hanging over the film.

As far as the whole commercial goes, it's not the kind of hard - sell ad that we've come to expect from Super Bowl commercials.

Coffee table books and art books are kind of worthless on the Kindle, and they're harder to sell online than in a physical store, where people can pick them up and thumb through them.

Without any kind of strategy, it will be much harder for you to sell books, get yourself noticed as an author, or gain any real readers and long - time fans.

Without any kind of strategy, it will make it harder for you to sell books or gain any real readers and long - time fans.

Partly because most of the people who are «selling» this kind of information are just looking to get their greasy hands into your pocket and relieve you of your hard earned cash...

That looks really cool but it's hard to trust any kind of reviews uploaded by the company that sells them.

I'm an equities kind of guy, and I've done fairly well with it (15 % + return for the past 10 years — lucked out in the great depression of 08 - 09 because that's when I was able to snatch up stocks at bargain levels because that's when my career formerly started), so it'll be a hard sell, but I'll look into it.

kind of devalues the game if you think the only selling point is how hard it is.

This applies mostly to the roulette kind of Loot Boxes that try really hard to sell you on.

Hockney has become more prolific in recent years and plus, most of the early works belong either to museums or, Barker says, to the «kinds of collectors who you'd be hard pushed to persuade to sell.

I think the key for me to that success (can't speak for everyone else though) is that there's no real hard sell, hence my cynical git defences aren't triggered and I go...» well, that hugh guy, he sounds kind of cool, and hey why not try that wine he keeps talking about».

I think there was a bit of a rush, especially in the mid 2000s, on climate change to try to cast it as an emergency that needed to be dealt with with a kind of urgency that's really hard to sell to people — and especially to politicians.

Of course, we have lives to live and have come to trust those voices that sound compelling and sensible to us on TV and in the popular media, but do keep in mind that there's a difference between rhetoric and reality and the more rhetorical and appealing it seems to one's emotions, especially as delivered by those for whom science is a kind of performance as we have today with science journalists (they are afterall selling the controversy more than the hard facts), the more likely it requires the reader or viewer or listener to examine it more closely for the precision of its language, logic and scientific interpretatioOf course, we have lives to live and have come to trust those voices that sound compelling and sensible to us on TV and in the popular media, but do keep in mind that there's a difference between rhetoric and reality and the more rhetorical and appealing it seems to one's emotions, especially as delivered by those for whom science is a kind of performance as we have today with science journalists (they are afterall selling the controversy more than the hard facts), the more likely it requires the reader or viewer or listener to examine it more closely for the precision of its language, logic and scientific interpretatioof performance as we have today with science journalists (they are afterall selling the controversy more than the hard facts), the more likely it requires the reader or viewer or listener to examine it more closely for the precision of its language, logic and scientific interpretatioof its language, logic and scientific interpretation.

A used device sold directly by the original owner to another owner comes with no guarantees of any kind, and any assurances given by the seller that the device works great and has been well taken care of have to be taken with a grain of salt - after all, who's going to be able to sell you a gadget after telling you that it's basically been rode hard and put away wet?

Hard to predict what kind of decision would be taken about it if it happens that the Volt loses money at first and the government is under pressure to sell its stake and recoup at least the $ 50 billion it put in.

Quentin Riegel, deputy general counsel of the National Association of Manufacturers, another client, says Levy «was not the kind of guy who made a hard sell to try to get work.

If you have a poor credit score, you will find that it is much harder to get the kind of Manteca renters insurance prices that you want, and some companies will not even be willing to sell you their policies.

Such a move could also make internal restructuring easier, and set the stage for sell - offs of less successful components of the business, simplifying all of those processes and limiting the number of people who have influences over those kinds of hard decisions.

It's also hard to imagine future iterations of PlayStation and Xbox consoles selling games on a disc versus some kind of Netflix - like format similar to GeForce NOW.

Sending this kind of letter does not mean that you are trying to hard sell yourself to the company.

I'm like Josh, I'm a hard sell for this kind of stuff.

«I was selling some new homes for a smaller builder... and they were very cute homes but they were tucked away so it was kind of hard to get a lot of action back there,» she explains.

I need more bathroom storage and Home Goods sells this kind of thing that is hard to find other places.