Sentences with phrase «like holding your breath»

I hope that Guerrero does the right thing for the program and lets Mora go, but hoping for him to do the smart thing is a little like holding your breath.

«It's almost like they hold their breath under the water,» she says.

You may feel like holding your breath, but don't allow yourself to do so!

Approaching the sculpture is a bizarre experience: such heavy, daily machinery in a violent suspense of animation seems threatening, like holding your breath around a slumbering lion.

Not exact matches

The water flosser's reservoir holds 90 + seconds - worth of water, and you can add a bit of mouthwash if you'd like for extra breath freshening.

But don't hold your breath for robots that think like people.

But I won't hold my breath ---- cause all you emergents makes statements like the above with only your opinion to back it up.

Whenever the sweet drive is stopped and held, our breath wells up like the rush

But I do want to take the work of my hands right now, today, whether it's a book I'm writing or a floor I'm sweeping or a phone call I'm making or a meal I'm cooking and I want to hold it all in my hand, in my spirit with a breath of prayer and intention, like we are all a fragile universe needing love in this moment.

She may wish she had been more like my friend Ruth, more ready to lean down and press her cheek against her mother's and hold her hand for those last few breaths.

[7] Newman would like the local bishops to act in the same way, but he was not holding his breath.

I'd also like to say that will cease once the weather turns cooler, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

I feel like I've been waiting with bated breath - but I can hold out alittle longer (begrudgingly).

After months spent indoors, the appearance of warmer weather feels like releasing a breath I didn't realize I was holding.

Like I said before, I desperately hope that I'm proved wrong, but based on the overabundance of historical evidence I'm certainly not holding my breath

I am sure that he will give a couple of youngsters like Nelson, Nketiah or Willock a chance to play if given the chance, but I am hoping for some impressive performances from our reserves to prove they deserve promotion for our League games, but after our last few underwhelming Europa League displays I won't be holding my breath....

Some in the Rangers camp would like to sign Bob Horner to play third and move Steve Buechele to second, but Horner had better not hold his breath waiting for a call...

That's when your striker HOLDS IT UP, to allow players to run beyond him, Welbeck is good and has been a breath of fresh air but he to often plays like a winger and occupies space on the flanks which crowds players out.

In the old days the Arsenal board would have helped him like in the case of Ray Kennedy and others but times have changed, now that we have money orientated owners, sadly I won't be holding my breath

Ian Kennedy is looking like he might turn it around, but I'm not holding my breath.

When the Aquamaids» Claire Barton is asked to provide an insight into synchronized swimming, she offers this comparison: «It's like running a mile while holding your breath for half the time,» Barton said.

A lot of us are hoping that the boss uses the January transfer window to add to his options up front but despite the Arsenal transfer rumours linking us with the likes of Aubameyang and Chicharito, I do not think we4 should be holding our breaths.

He seems like he might wean before Ava did, but I'm not holding my breath.

Digital acoustical cry analyses captures qualities like frequency, energy, and signal - to - noise ratio and show that a pain cry has a different pattern from other cries (it's high - pitched, loud, and sudden, with some breath - holding).

Similarly, if you have a conflict with your child at home and you go into another room and take ten deep breaths — that's a seven second inhale, seven second hold your breath, seven second exhale — and you think positively while you're doing that, like «How can I best handle that situation, how important is this to me, how can I make this work without fighting,» you'll have a much better chance of resolving this situation effectively.

I almost feel like I shouldn't even move or breath so I don't remind him I'm holding him.

A doctor can determine whether it was in fact a breath - holding spell or another medical condition that looks like one.

I felt like I was holding my breath the whole time.

I too was holding my breath reading it like, «me too!

Hold your breath, as this type also comes with hand brake which is absolutely like icing on the cake.

Along with familiar gases like carbon dioxide, nitrogen and oxygen, each breath holds a vaporized record of the foods you've eaten, the places you've been, the drugs you've taken, the pollutants you've encountered and the general operation of your internal organs.

IF YOU HAVE SEEN the recent Hollywood blockbuster Inception, a movie that does to dreaming what The Matrix did for virtual reality, you may have been holding your breath as Ariadne, an architecture student, folded the streets of Paris over herself like a blanket.

Tipton says that in water temperatures of about 50 degrees Fahrenheit, people can only manage to hold their breath for an average of 5 seconds before they reflexively open their mouths, sucking in something like 65 ounces of water, or the equivalent of a 2 liter bottle of soda.

«Whether you're doing something like shuffling cards in your hand — that's thousands of hours of practicing over and over — or learning how to hold your breath, which is also countless hours of practicing, you're doing something that science imagines not to be possible — something that you don't think is possible.

So, perhaps like you, I hold my breath as long as possible when a truck or bus burps dark black fumes on the sidewalk — and I will not visit Beijing without a gas mask!

Hold whatever version of the posture you like for 5 — 15 breaths.

You are allowing yourself to roll with it and transform one stitch of breath at a time as your skin, like leather softens and holds your circuitious and rolling breath... «Be the ball»....

I try to just have a nice comfortable hold and a nice slow breath out, but count for a bit so you know what it feels like and then go back, reach for the feeling versus the counting number.

When I activate my Transversus Abdominus (TA), should it feel like I am holding my breath?

Second, I felt like I was holding my breath the entire time.

There is a time and place for proper breath holding, like when you are maxing out your deadlift, but if you are suffering from back or neck tightness, hernias, abdominal separation or pelvic floor issues, you really need to take a closer look at how you manage pressure in your core and why that mis - utilization of pressure is causing issues.

Good form also includes using proper breathing techniques like fighting the urge to hold your breath during strenuous exercises.

However, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for more studies, since research on natural health products like these are both few and far between.

It's taken some time and a decent amount of trial and error to devise a strategy for myself to not feel like I'm holding my breath waiting for the weather to get warmer, but actually (somewhat) thriving in the winter.

I basically held my breath until it arrived because you never know how pants like this are going to fit.

The more likely response sounds something like, «Oh God, oh God, oh God, I hope... (Hold breath.

Well, Breath of Death suffers from the same ailment, with only two differences - you need to use a different Key (ENTER, in this case), and holding it doesn't work, so you need to be hitting it like a maniac in combat sequences.

We'll be discussing 1995 at length in the July Smackdown so I'll save most of my comments for then but my biggest nail - biter and raucous - cheering and breath - holding was for Elisabeth Shue in Leaving Las Vegas (who was my personal choice for the Oscar that year) since there were basically seven women with what seemed like actual traction for five spots.

Light glides in purples and greens, bubbles hang like glass sculpture, and, for the length of a held breath, viewers (that is, the few who actually saw the movie before it was pulled from theaters) find themselves in the kind of idealized cartoon fantasy Jem could have been.

Every generation also needs movies like this to give them faith that there really can be good movies about people just standing around and talking — look no further than the 2004 sequel and start holding your breath for a third installment that is reportedly due in 2013.