Sentences with phrase «like bystander»

I feel like a bystander in the therapy and momentarily inadequate.

He didn't assert himself on the game, and was almost like a bystander for the whole ninety minutes.

I'd sometimes correct people, but I quickly learned that the questions were less out of concern and more akin to gawking, kind of like bystanders passing an accident.

Not exact matches

Smith says less - lethal weapons like stun guns could help police diffuse a tense situation without escalating violence, and keep a suspect alive, without endangering bystanders with gunfire.

That's like trying to justify an apathetic bystander or even a murderer.

We commonly assume that because we Gentiles no longer have problems with the validity of the Jewish laws and customs (like kosher food and sacred festivals) we are really bystanders watching Paul demolish the fastidiousness of the Jews.

because i am not typically a tin - foil - hat kinda guy, but didn't this footage look an awful lot like the wwe «promos» cut backstage when entertainers wrestlers and their crews wreak havoc and cause chaos, inflicting pain and emotional torment on innocent bystanders / uninvolved wrestlers?

It's like having some regular bystander and a firefighter by a burning building.

Always waiting, looking to see what happens and falling behind like some passive bystander.

Bystanders also may experience what is known as the bystander effect which occurs when people witness an event like bullying when a large group of people are around.

Pushing was probably the best feeling because I felt like I was working with my labor and not a bystander.

Because I was so relaxed it was like my body was «taking over» and I was the bystander.

To compound the problem, antibiotics don't just kill bad bugs — like a huge scythe, they also cut down innocent bystanders.

Like dancers swirling on the dance floor with bystanders looking on, protons and neutrons that have briefly paired up in the nucleus have higher - average momentum, leaving less for non-paired nucleons.

And now, portable defibrillators, or AEDs, are available in many public spaces (like sports arenas, gyms, malls, and restaurants) for bystanders to use.

Sometimes cholesterol is a good guy — but like an innocent bystander found at the scene of the crime, it is blamed as the primary cause incorrectly.

Traditional methods can backfire, but ideas like teaching bystanders to intervene

Nor does it go well for bystanders like Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman, never better), hounded for fifteen years for stealing a loaf of bread and more interested in atoning for his sins than mixing it up with the local dragoons.

Caught in the crossfire are bystanders like Christine (Samantha Morton), John's fiancee.

Ex-photographer and future seafarer Tristan (Chris Sarandon, «Fright Night») is an amiable, trustworthy type that Isolda immediately takes a liking to, but he's a mere bystander in this town compared to the local bullies who run the show.

HALLOWEEN H20: 20 YEARS LATERDirector: Steve MinerStarring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Josh Hartnett, Adam Arkin, Michelle Williams, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Adam Hann - Byrd, Joseph Gordon - Levitt, LL Cool J Like the title suggests, twenty years have passed since that fateful night where masked killer Michael Myers went on a killing rampage involving some babysitters, nurses, doctors, and other innocent bystanders as he made his way toward Laurie Strode (Curtis).

But it also fascinated me to play somebody like this who is being a bystander.

This film takes the viewer out of their comfort zone and makes them feel like an uncomfortable bystander in this strange world.

Exuding genuine menace even while going for the melodrama, Russell is like a shock to the system as he revs up the action by giving an innocent bystander (Rose McGowan in prissy blonde mode) the ride of her life, as it were, as a prelude to the evening's main event.

These kids are supposed to be the poles around which the final conflict of the story «that is already written down» by creepy puppetmaster Mr. Tiny (Michael Cerveris) revolves, but they feel like unlucky bystanders picked at random to fill the roles.

There is a pistol - packing store clerk, an angry Ed driving off to abandon H.I. and then coming back to get him, a speeding police car turning up at the store, a pack of neighbourhood dogs chasing H.I, and much more, all accompanied by the Banjo of Ben Freed and yodelling courtesy of John R. Crowder, and punctuated by the sounds of screaming bystanders and gunshot blasts that seem amplified to sound like cannons.

I really liked watching the characters go from innocent bystanders to desperate survivors.

Feelings of tremendous, overwhelming, Titanic - like levels of love, too, where the only way to really represent how much you love this boy (or that one — no, this one) is by standing on the corpses of your loved ones and a few thousand bystanders.

True to its title, conceit, and mindless video - game source material, the film has no shortage of death and destruction, as three supersized mutant animals stampede through civilization like bulls in a china shop, knocking down buildings and gobbling up bystanders.

The audience, as a result, feels like it's standing right there next to them at ground zero, a bystander to the city - leveling bouts.

Watch him eat breakfast like a regular dad and then shoot an innocent bystander dead in the street a few minutes later.

The filmmakers barely even try to draw comedy from the ugliness of lines like that and «In culinary news, the roasted white skin of innocent bystanders is fast becoming a soul - food staple» — one of those wacky decontextualized news snippets that were clearly added in post-production, like far too many of the film's gags.

Never before have people been so connected, but this networked community can facilitate the rapid spread of harassment and widens the audience of bystanders, making it possible to victimise someone with a simple «like».

Steps to Respect schools also saw gains in bullying prevention factors like positive bystander behavior and student climate.

Mahoney immediately dispatches DeMarco to New York to assist prosecutor Justine Porter, but with five bystanders willing to testify against the killer?rich - boy Toby Rosenthal?the case seems like a slam - dunk.

And as a bystander with children and pets, I'd like to add that the reason anti-pit bull groups are gaining favor and becoming more widely known is because the attacks by pit bulls and their owners are happening all over the country at an alarming rate.

Sometimes innocent bystanders can get caught in the crossfire as well, like children.

Targeting specific enemies is still a major headache, one that resulted in the accidental injuring of bystanders and otherwise friendly characters far more often than I would like, thereby causing quite a few problems.

What you will see in your son's game, if this iteration of GTA is anything like its predecessors, is incredible interactive violence aimed at police officers (whom you can shoot in the head and see the blood spray), innocent bystanders (whom you can run over with your car just for the heck of it), and of course the plentiful female prostitutes you can have sex with and then filet with a knife or stomp with your feet in order to get your money back.

In the sections that you have to swim through, it feels like you are a bystander watching these adventurers swim in an aquarium.

Much like the battle mechanics, the capture methods give the impression of being a bystander watching what was happening instead of a player impacting the outcome.

For example, the Warriors» Union Rep will transform every bystander in the following worlds into warriors, which is kind of risky, because you will have an incredibly amount of attack power, but because no other type of unit will appear after, you will have no extra lives (the philosophers), no items (only the slaves can carry items), and your mob will look like this:

That's quite disappointing, as it makes you feel like a mere bystander in the course of events instead of an active participant.

On this felicitous occasion I would like to express the wish that ARTnews, as a knowledgeable and interested bystander, take an occasional look at the architectural scene.

From the editor's desk of the Bystander, Morris crusaded against forces, like the Klu Klux Klan, that terrorized and oppressed black communities in Iowa.

While this is a fairly clear statement, when faced with strong opposition and even just an appearance of controversy, even more clarity might be necessary to be as convincing to bystanders as one might like.

Your success is not tied to how well your colleagues and bystanders write about your work, in terms like «Lovely modelling algorithm used here.»

I have an even crazier idea: recognize that family law disputes are like health care problems — they can strike anyone, whether they did anything to deserve them or not, and they have an impact not only on the patient or party but also on innocent bystanders who are connected to them.

The American criminal justice system is like a poorly maintained conveyor belt to prison that keeps injuring innocent bystanders.

Pretty much every other smart lock has some sort of snazzy modern design going on, but to an uninitiated bystander, Kevo looks like any other lock.