Sentences with phrase «like biting our tongue»

At times, it may seem like biting our tongue is the most difficult thing to do, but you can prevail.

Engaging in constructive, pro-relationship behaviors — like biting your tongue when your partner snaps at you, or discussing difficult issues in a calm and constructive manner — are effortful acts that require greater self - control compared to more selfish or destructive behaviors.3 Unfortunately, self - control is a limited resource that becomes depleted through use, making further acts of self - control all the more difficult.4 Self - control is like a muscle that can become fatigued over time, or a gas tank that is eventually emptied.

Not exact matches

Colin Busby, a senior policy analyst at the C.D. Howe Institute, seems to bite his tongue, but he likes where Bridgepoint is going.

We would have liked to have fought back at times when we bit our tongue.

Perhaps one could argue that, in so far as certain light waves get to the retina and are there processed, etc., in a sensethe eye does become coloured; but the damage has already been done: the Aristotelian theory sounds a bit too much like the theory of bitter humours infecting the tongue.

Typically, Reformed / Calvinistic churches are a bit stiff and formal, singing mostly hymns, wearing suits, and not allowing things like tongues or healings.

Suppressing your thoughts or biting your tongue may seem like an acceptable short - term solution, but ultimately it will not work.

The years go by and I become more and more aware of my pioneer lineage, I understand the pull west better, I feel suffocated without a bit of a space, without an early morning walk beside the yarrow patch, I need the north, and I need the west in a way that veers towards the mystical, which is just fine to a Holy Spirit adoring tongue talker like me.

It's also a bit of a tongue - in - cheek pitch for The Lasting Supper that I'm passionate about and care about deeply because it is really helping people explore and exercise their spiritual freedom and independence with others of like mind.

Amazing sweet smooth flavor, but more on the subtle side, I expected a richer flavor, but it is a bit dull, so you have to add more than few drops to get the desirable vanilla flavor, the good side is that it not bitter, but rather sweet, and doesn't cause tongue numbness like some other types I used, I used it for chees cake and the flavor is just right, my only complain would be the small container for the price, as I said it is not robust, you will get through the bottle in no time if you like vanilla as my family do

Mountain pepper berries have an oily, mineral - like, turpentine aroma and when even minute grains of the ground fruits are tasted, an initial sweet, fruity flavor is quickly followed by an intense, biting, tongue - numbing and eye - watering heat that continues to build and will not subside for some minutes.

Modern scientific research shows that salting the eggplant is not actually removing most of the bitter compounds, but the added salt at least decreases the human tongue's perception of bitterness, very much like how adding a little bit of salt to bad coffee improves the taste.

They dissolve on your tongue with each bite, like a good shortbread should, in my opinion, and the chocolate helps round everything out.

When Elana Amsterdam recently asked if I would like to review a copy of her new cookbook, Gluten - Free Cupcakes: 50 Irresistible Recipes Made with Almond and Coconut Flour, I felt extremely honored and a tad bit flabbergasted... a bit like Porky Pig; tripping over my tongue in attempt to utter a simple phrase.

All you've done is go back to a historical past, pick out the bad bits that make you feel good, bandy about the idiotic comments that just fall off Mourinhos tongue «specialist in failure» and agree with the likes of Mourinho that we are no good as a club.

I don't really feel like I'm an evangelist for AP, but I will admit that there are times when I watch someone pushing a shrieking infant in a stroller and bite my tongue rather than say «y ’ know, if you just held them, they'd stop crying...».

I have tried my best to bite my tongue on the whole breast v bottle debate as I do not like arguments and, unfortunately, baby feeding seems to cause A LOT of arguments.

Cut bread in strips or use meltables like cheese curls that she can hold on her own, and encourage placement on the sides of her mouth, not in the middle, so she has to bite down on it and learn to lateralize her tongue to move food back and forth in her mouth to chew.

If your baby is latched correctly, the tongue will act like a barrier and it is impossible that the baby bites you.

For the past few weeks, I've been biting my tongue to keep from sounding like the Great Green Halloween Grinch.

Whether it was the seriousness of the subject, or Cameron's reluctant acceptance that 30 of those who voted against his plans belonged to his party, or just a battle of who could behave like the better statesman, Cameron had been biting his tongue.

I keep trying to bite my tongue on the terrible implications for budgets like defence of the party's NHS spendathon pledge.

That's why our reviewers really liked the Yonico Matched Tongue and Groove Router Bit Set.

The bats» grooved tongues appear to never separate from the liquid nectar, acting a bit like a conveyor belt to transport the food up the tongue and straight into the animals» mouths.

«Lamprey are eel - like parasites that use their tooth - like organs and raspy tongue to latch onto fish and suck out the blood, while hagfish scavenge by taking bites out of dead matter,» he says.

Like I was just numb to these sensations and so I added some hypothalamus - pituitary extract in in a supplement form, just put a little bit on my tongue and then all of a sudden all these receptor sites were woken up.

I think with a fairy tale like Hansel and Gretel there's a little bit of a tongue - in - cheek element to it.

It's a simple love story between a man and his machine, playing out almost like a straightforward romance, but with a tongue - in - cheek style that gives the audience a wink to tell them it's meant to be a little bit hokey.

It has a tongue - in - cheek voiceover from Michael Gambon a bit like Sam Elliott's one in the earlier movie.

Scored by another tongue - bath of a score by James Horner (bring a squeegee and a change of clothes, you'll feel like you've taken a swim in a spittoon), Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius is every bit as episodic, derivative, patronizing, and bloated as Horner's compositions — the man, by himself, defining a genre of picture perhaps fatally damaged by his very intrusion.

Unfortunately, headstrong Emily proves unable to bite her tongue when visitors like the local pastor (Miles Richardson) or even a potential suitor (Stefan Menaul) come a callin».

Unfortunately, a lot of people felt like Tarantino's portion, «Death Proof,» was dialogue - heavy and a bit anticlimactic after Robert Rodriguez's tongue - in - cheek zombie flick, «Planet Terror.»

Adept talents for entertaining, tongue - in - cheek scenarios, Wingard and Barrett exert equal levels of over-the-top bits with their latest endeavor, but with a sharper mix of subversive commentary and tightly plotted thrills that feels like an homage to the off - the - cuff glory days of John Carpenter.

Love itself is a bit like that: you can describe your beloved until the tongue tires and still, in truth, fail to get at the particular quality that has captured you.

As I am a children's book author, I'll bite my tongue on what I'd like to say, and just suggest that you're not being the person Mister Rogers would want you to be.

We all have friends like that and I bite my tongue as I listen to them explain the flat - earth theory one more time.

Do you bite your tongue and politely return a cat that they treat like a toss away piece of garbage?

When things like Duke Nukem 3D surfaced they added a bit more realism to the genre but then also added some over the top kills on space aliens, some great tongue in cheek humour and of corse some bad ass attitude.

Like I've said in other (less spiteful comments), I really feel that we should bite our tongues until we see more than 3 seconds of gameplay footage.

She makes all these allusions to subcultures, art history, and pop culture in a way that reads as tongue - in - cheek but also a bit like a tribute to how much weirder others» work can seem compared to one's own.

By using his mother tongue and an indispensable measure of humour, his works appear to offer bite - sized responses to human experiences like failure and success.

Applying this to your career goals could end up sounding something like: «I will not be late for work», «I will stop mumbling in interviews», «I will stop biting my tongue in meetings», «I will stop putting off my work to the last minute», «I will stop missing deadlines» or «I will stop putting things off.»

I'll be the first to admit that as much as I'd like to think I could stay calm and relaxed in even the toughest of scenarios with co-workers, there were times where I had to calm myself down, bite my tongue, and turn to others for support.

Group therapy provides a space for you to try being more assertive or feeling what it's like to bite your tongue and not share something instantly.