Sentences with phrase «like a child playing»

It is like a child playing in a mud puddle thinking that is what «real» fun is all about when right around the corner is an ocean side swimming pool.

The truth is that there is nothing going on between his ears, like a child playing in the playground no awareness what so ever.

When I look at our players beside City's team we look like children playing men.

Synthetic biologists are a lot like children playing with Lego.

Singer's direction comes across like a child playing with an adult gadget too afraid to hold it long for fear of breaking it.

Few filmmakers deconstruct robberies with the childlike glee of Soderbergh, and here he's like a child playing with a brand - spanking new train set, laying down the tracks and watching the engine go around and around in circles and calling out «choo!

The hyperactive steering would never relax enough for you to measure out appropriate corrections, so corners became serrated and you'd saw at the wheel like a child playing at being a rally driver.

Mario games have a palpable level of attention put into even the simplest movement mechanics that makes just truly «playing» — not for the goal but like a child playing with toys - really fun.

The effect of both works is tremulous and edgily defiant, like a child playing make - believe.

I am a teensy human, and having a watch that actually properly fits me without looking like a child playing dress up would be amazing.

Over time this makes the gun registry look like childs play.

Not exact matches

Like Amazon, they've learned to execute their strategy on the basis of what won't change over the next 10 years — children playing and learning from compelling block toys — as opposed to what will change.

Brooks released a statement saying he would only «play five shows or none at all,» explaining that to «choose which shows to do and which shows not to do, would be like asking to choose one child over another.»

Even if you feel your home is safe, it's important not to fall prey to certain blind spots, like thinking that you don't have to worry about a certain room because your children do not play there or simply thinking that your children know not to climb onto furniture.

But he'll be the first to say that he couldn't have gotten where he is today without overcoming some hurdles — many of which make selling shirts out of a dorm room look like child's play.

Under IFRS, temporary resuscitation of weak companies through timely acquisitions has become like child's play.

Likins says he remembers playing with the video games and trying out bikes with his brothers at Toys R Us, and liked continuing that with his child.

It was recently reported that the Google Play Store hosted more than 3,000 Android apps that improperly collected data from children, and it looks like that has opened the floodgates for inquiries into what Google knows about us.

Next Move Executive Director Tricia Rosenbaum spoke about the importance of play, especially for the children and families served by Next Move, and the enormous impact a project like this could have on a community.

The living room is where George listens to music while Khanna reads, and where their three children like to play the piano or a game of chess.

«Their generous philanthropic efforts have enabled Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children to fund cutting edge pediatric research, purchase life - saving equipment and fund pediatric programs like Child Life, where we provide therapy through medical play, visual arts, dance, music and more,» continued Nantais.

you sound like children being angry at your parents for not letting you play in the street and you have no conception about death by automoblie..

«Cosmic struggle» sounds like a video game that middle - class children play.

«The last two weeks have been about as grim and hopeless as any of us can remember,» Lamott wrote, listing events like the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster in Ukraine, Palestinian children killed by rocket fire while playing football on the beach and protests against young refugees showing up at the U.S. border.»

He sounds like a little kid who's playing house with 4 women for short term gratification, but doesn't consider or acknowledge the long term affects on the children or on society.

Thats like saying a mother hates her children for not letting them play in the streets.

The baby carriage, the stroller, the children's books and play rug — like burs that cling to your clothes after a forest walk, they were all reminders of our past.

When adults begin justifying decisions by «playing the God card,» their kids will pick up on it, especially when it is used in serious decisions that have a big impact on the child - like divorce or relocation.

Like how a child can play one parent against the other, etc...

The God we encounter there is the God in whom we live and move and have our being, the God who rejoices over His children with signing, the God who spreads Her wings over Her children like an eagle over her chicks, the God who loved the world enough to experience all of its pain alongside of us, the God who — as Nadia Bolz - Weber puts it — «would rather die than be in the sin accounting business anymore,» the God who loves to watch us play.

is, I suggest, like asking, why teachers have pupils, statesmen citizens, composers musicians to play their compositions, painters canvasses to paint, friendly persons other persons or animal pets to enjoy; or why people want children as well as adults around them.

Laughter and love... like innocent children at play.

It isn't long before somebody is asked to organize activities for the children, snacks for the children, then somebody doesn't like the subject matter of the adult study, somebody says it's going on too long, too short, and where's the music, we need somebody to play guitar, and who's going to organize the prayer at the end, and why do the children interrupt us all the time when we're trying to talk to God?

Some of the children liked to play hacky sack.

For two decades, the critically acclaimed actor has sought roles that challenge big ideas and present complicated characters like 12 Years a Slave (for which he was nominated for a best actor Oscar), Mary Magdalene (he plays Peter), Children of Men, Amistad and dozens of others.

The sun rose like an irritated eye; wives cooked rice pancakes; children went to play at tag in dusty fields or caught frogs by the banks of the Euphrates; while the men took to the brick kilns, potters» wheels, and plows; lovers arose to make love once again; and old men at the gate weighed claims and vows.

Outside of her house with so many children laughing like light and playing with hope, Grandma Em and I know exactly what to do: we hold on to each other, enfold and encircle each other, and we keep turning to see each other.

But the ordinary things they long for, and the things that they find funny, and the infinite variety of things they dream of, and the games they play, and animals they wish they could have, and things they like to eat, and clothes they wish they could afford to buy, are not as different as the world seems to believe from what most other children in this land enjoy, or dream of, or desire.

Indeed, Newton ends up with a four substance metaphysic (space, time, minds, bodies) which makes Descartes» problems look like child's play.

the earth just like the «tops» you played with as a child will eventually slow down that the earth will spend a day with one side facing the sun... however by the time that happens humans would have been dead for a few billion years.

When your playing a silly game with a bat and ball you bring him out, you thank him when you move a pig skin across a line, you stamp his name on my currency, you tell my children about him in our public schools, you trot him out like a prized pig at a fair anytime something good or bad or even mediocre happens, and even when you stub your toe.

If you give these people power that will look like child's play in the great hall of torture and abuse history.

Listen I keep seeing bumper stickers like «you can't be both Catholic and pro-choice» these are not reflective of my faith, theser are slogans made for propaganda, I have 2 beautiful children and I have never been on a position where abortion could even play a part, but it is a legal option to the public at large; this being said even the bible calls for us to be good citizens, and to obey the law, I believe that this is a matter that belongs with the family and not the state; no matter how we criminalize abortion, they will not stop, but people will go under - ground and more fatalities will occur, I rather see the government placing incentives on more conseling for these expectant mothers and more outreach done at church levels, to reduce the debate to a single slogan is dangerous and will not accomplish the ultimately goal of preventing abortions my two humble cents

Our children would play together on the floor and watch movies curled up on the couch, piled on each other like puppies.

... Parenthood, I believed, would certainly spell the end of our nightly candlelit sandalwood - scented bubble baths complete with silly bath toys, where we played like children in a deliciously adult incarnation.»

One can indeed say that there is no wholly bad man — each has somewhere some good in him — like that atrocious Chinese bandit leader, who relentlessly slaughtered thousands, but nevertheless played heartily with children as though he were himself an innocent child.

These criteria were employed in choosing the well adjusted children: Plays well with other children, appears to be a happy child, has reasonable control over his emotions, can be depended on, is achieving somewhere near his capacity, is able to think for himself, is kind and helpful to teachers and classmates, is liked and respected by his peers.)

Rauf described the center to be built two blocks from the former site of the World Trade Center towers - destroyed by terrorist - hijacked commercial jets on September 11, 2001 - as a «shared space for community activities, like a swimming pool, classrooms and a play space for children.»

But whichever way you choose, don't be like the children who complain that people won't play their games.

The reason we all liked Play - Doh as children is because we believed we could create anything we wanted.