Sentences with phrase «less frightening»

One of the interventions designed to enhance behavioral and biological regulation in young children at risk for parental neglect is the Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch - up (ABC) intervention.25, 27 This 10 - week program helps parents become more synchronous and nurturing as well as less frightening.

If you face your fears, they will become less frightening.

I will admit that I flashed back to some old George Orwell and Utopia / Dystopia novels when I first read about the Ajusto program, but the more that I think about it the less frightening it is.

An honest plaintiff can recover at moderate cost, and the defendants will see justice being done, and be able to represent themselves in a less frightening proceeding.

This is actually about the same data in the Mann hockey stick chart — it only looks less frightening here (or more frightening in Mann) due to the miracle of scaling.

Veteran science writer Cherry and award - winning photographer Braasch team up to make climate change less frightening by showing children how to empower themselves as «citizen scientists.»

In general, science tries to explain the world, and the better something is understood, the less frightening it becomes.

But the only mention of these words in the IPCC report are in the section «Anthropogenic warming could lead to some impacts that are abrupt or irreversible, depending upon the rate and magnitude of the climate change», which reveals a far less frightening and urgent picture than such accounts suggests:

Second — and this is the real kicker — it was Frank Luntz, a Republican strategist, who convinced Republicans to switch phrases because the term «climate change» is less frightening, and therefore easier to downplay.

In the report, compiled in 2000, Luntz advised that the phrase «global warming» should be replaced with the «less frightening» term «climate change».

«Climate change» was less frightening in his view than «global warming» As one focus group participant noted, climate change «sounds like you're going from Pittsburgh to Fort Lauderdale.»

We wonder why we were not advised to prepare to adapt to crash curtailing CO2 emissions, which sounds to us considerably less frightening.

First he describes research by Paul Slovic, Baruch Fischhoff and others that has shown how emotional responses to the world, — «fear factors,» as Ropeik calls them — make risks feel more or less frightening than science and statistics say would be rational.

«We wonder why we were not advised to prepare to adapt to crash curtailing CO2 emissions which sounds to us considerably less frightening» (than the «train wreck» of 4oC warming).»

From http://www.ewg.org/briefings/luntzmemo/: [Republican communications guru Frank] Luntz advises that, «Climate change» is less frightening than «global warming.»

But yes, sequelized survival - horror does kill the mood and make the games less frightening.

Regardless, I suspect even those who play co-op from the start — especially with friends — will find it a bit less frightening than playing solo simply because of the companionship factor.

Digitally simulated violence quickly becomes less frightening after you've died and restarted the level a few dozen times.

One giant, monster of a crab stands surrounded by three smaller — but no less frightening — mud crabs on Krabi's shoreline, just a short walk from the main town centre.

Things quickly become less frightening once you step up to face them.

If You Chicken Out: The appropriately titled X-Scream is only slightly less frightening, propelling riders headfirst 27 feet over the edge of the building in a roller - coaster car, and dangling them in a weightless state before retracting the car and then repeating the whole thing at a steeper angle.

However, with a little bit of knowledge, you can make the situation safer for your pet and less frightening for you.

The more comfortable a animal is with being touched, the less frightening a vet visit will be.

Much less frightening, is it?

Thankfully, the credit bureaus make this less frightening by providing credit score protection to mortgage rate shoppers nationwide.

The realities of the marketplace may be very different when compared with the forecasts — and a lot less frightening.

BEA 2013 boasted a «Digital Discovery Zone,» but for every business aimed at revolutionizing delivery to consumers, there were two whose purpose boiled down to making the digital landscape less frightening for hidebound publishers.

Less frightening than the killers themselves are the intellectually arid and institutionally paranoid communities that incubate them.

Like the Challenger SRT Hellcat the R8 Competition tops out at 199 - mph, but unlike the Dodge its standard all - wheel drive system makes getting there a lot less frightening - and its carbon ceramic brakes mean you won't set the front wheels on fire when it's time to slow things down to a more reasonable rate of travel.

Now into my second year as a blended - learning history teacher — meaning I have a group of students in my classroom every other day, assigning them to work online, at home, on the «off» days — I've found the scary parts less frightening than most fear, with far greater benefits than I expected....

Both are drawn to the head gangster of South Boston, played by Jack Nicholson (in a performance that starts restrained and becomes weirder and more «Jack» as the film's sense of paranoid hysteria increases), and both have legit cops as potential father figures: DiCaprio has the ideal good father in Martin Sheen, Damon has amoral (and hilarious) company man Alec Baldwin, in a less frightening variation on his great Glengarry Glen Ross performance.

Slowly a cast and crew were assembled that made the entire enterprise rather less frightening.

Forrest Whitaker nearly scared me to death yet nothing was less frightening than the snake effects on the plane.

Unfortunately, the result is that it makes the film less frightening instead of more frightening.

Its pleasures are familiar and its frightening bits less frightening than before, but Insidious: Chapter 3 still does right by a series that's served as proof that, in horror, less can be more.

Luckily, it's much simpler and less frightening, with the actual appearance of many internet online relationship dating?

Edouard Bourgeois, head sommelier of Café Boulud, has this to say on rosé's rapid rise: «The color makes wine appear more accessible and less frightening.»

That means spending time with less frightening or less anxiety - producing activities, situations, people, movies, games and other stimuli.

You'll feel better if you spend time engaging in less frightening or anxiety - producing activities, situations, movies, or games, and more time doing relaxing things, such as gentle walks, watching sunsets, and listening to calming music.

This simple act can be massively powerful: when you no longer hide from your feelings and instead greet them at the door, they are much less frightening.

New Scientist clearly does not espouse Bjørn Lomborg's Viewfinder soundbite when he calls for «a more reasoned, more constructive, and less frightening dialogue» on global warming (27 June, p 25).

If we could convincingly demonstrate hallucinogens alter these receptors, then we can find other compounds that have similar mechanisms but are less frightening.»

Shostak also brought up a less frightening but perhaps more existentially dreadful possibility about some future first contact: what if we finally hear from aliens broadcasting their presence as sentient beings, and the big announcement is their understanding of well - known mathematical phenomena such as the Fibonacci sequence.

When flying, take your child to the bathroom at the airport before you board the plane, and bring along familiar stuffed animals or other favorite objects that may make public or hotel bathrooms less frightening.

It makes the thought of a new baby in the house less frightening.

I think knowing that made the pain in my first labor less frightening early on.

Depending on their ages and maturity level, visiting the hospital, meeting the nursing and physician staffs, or accompanying their sick sibling to the clinic for treatments can help make the situation less frightening and more understandable.

Now that so much data is available to make the unexplained less frightening... and that the historical record has shown that most church doctrine was made up and that even the Jesus birth story / son of god born of a woman etc etc has been recycled in numerous different religions for over 4000 years... preaching Faith in a fairy tale is a losing proposition.

Small rooms, even prisons are less frightening to some people than windswept, open places.

Religion, contrary to what many people believe, was not created to explain death and make it less frightening, but to create social order, to instill a sense of having some greater power to answer to in the end.