Sentences with phrase «like ineffectual»

Acknowledge that expectations of parents and parenting have risen and therefore, what seems like ineffectual or problematic parenting today, may have constituted reasonable parenting during their childrearing years

Like the ineffectual walking sticks lying abandoned on the ground, the viewer is left clutching half of the story.

This year's approach seems to be to say, «oh yes, the policies are really awful, but we did tell the Tories how bad they were» just makes them sound like some ineffectual agitprop outfit.

Generally pleased with the disposability of my toddler daughter's diaper waste (knotted like ineffectual sausage in the diaper pail), I reluctantly tried the cloth option.

, Warren and the committee didn't have authority to administer any real punishment, which made Warren look like an ineffectual grandstander at first.

As my colleague Rick Newman pointed out, Warren and the committee didn't have authority to administer any real punishment, which made Warren look like an ineffectual grandstander at first.

Not exact matches

The gospel's sweetness, for example, is suspect; it looks too much like its caricatures: irresolution and readiness to compromise — often profitably — with the established disorders; the kind of popularity that easily camouflages betrayal; a certain interior, narcissistic complacency — the secret self - vindication of the ineffectual weakling.

But just like last time, my vote, sadly, seems to be have reduced (like Pete's) to an ineffectual protest.

Many pundits have been saying that the Spaniard has been extremely ineffectual this season despite playing every minute of every League game in this campaign, but with an obvious lack of backups since the sales of Matthieu Debuchy (who has been playing like a genius since joining St Etienne) and Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain (who forced his move to Liverpool), the only option Wenger had was to give his place to Calum Chambers.

And if his showing in Galatasaray hasn't placed him in line for a starts over the likes of Welbeck then there's surely no doubt he has to be on the bench over the likes of the ineffectual Joel Campbell.

His shooting accuracy is actually really good - shockingly on a par with what Henry's was & what Aguero's is now - but in every other area he has failed to improve & wont create shooting openings for himself in the way an Sanchez will for example - nothing like it, so this renders his finishing / shot accuracy ineffectual.

Just like the first goal the blame lies with the ineffectual double pivot.

Perhaps the visual display would be like a car's tachometer — it would measure ineffectual use of CO2.

Ironically, such a limited choice of exercise means you automatically cut out superfluous and ineffectual exercises like triceps kick backs and crunches.

You'll probably get more enjoyment out of this as a Superman fan than the previous outing and there's a lot of Batman to like (especially, if, like yours truly, you kind of hate Batman and enjoy seeing him be an ineffectual idiot in places).

In fact, all the actors feel like nothing more than accouterments for Cruz: Mark Feuerstein, as the dull but well - intentioned TV producer who falls hard for Isabella, is so ineffectual he barely registers on the screen next to her.

Wichita superficially resembles some John Ford westerns because of Earp (a character in Ford's My Darling Clementine and Cheyenne Autumn), because the romantic interest is played by Vera Miles (who would later turn up in The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance) and because the town has a newspaper run by an idealistic but ineffectual drunk (like Edmond O'Brien in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance).

The 5.1 mix, in Dolby Digital and DTS options on the same platter, is loud (particularly in DTS) yet ineffectual, though it does sport a few room - rattling moments, like the lassoing of the moon; as with most comedy soundtracks, it's monophonic in nature for large chunks of the running time.

Turning the disc over fires up that ridiculous anti-piracy PSA (always ineffectual, it feels like extreme hubris on a movie like The Ringer), and the film is burned herein in all its pan-and-scan glory — an option strictly for the would - be Jeffys out there.

Like sparks thrown off by a fire, these complaints by themselves are ineffectual.

Range Rovers sold like hot cakes, and yet BL scandalously undertook virtually no development of its cash cow until Michael Edwards separated Land Rover out of the ineffectual BL behemoth in 1979.

And ii) Trump as President really could happen (for much the same reasons as the Brexit vote), but now the market (like the GOP) already seems to be moving on to bargaining (& acceptance)... And anyway, a) East Coast - West Coast shame at the idea of a Trump presidency shouldn't precipitate an actual market decline, b) a President who likely ends up isolated from Congress is sure to be pretty ineffectual (as Obama's proved), c) if Trump manages to get anything done, it would probably be stimulative for the market, and d) if Hillary wins... yawn, plus ca change!

While she does this, she variously draws on panels inset into Hex - Washroom — she swaps these out periodically for others hung like paintings on a nearby wall — and pulls on her pulleys to slowly tip over her washroom structures, as if they were clunky, rather ineffectual balls themselves.

Indeed, they are looking more and more like bumbling, ineffectual whiners.

Nobody likes being ignored when walking into a store or dealing with employees who are ineffectual at solving customer's problems.