Sentences with phrase «like treading water»

And so what felt a bit like treading water to a relatively successful if not franchise - forwarding degree when this game was played as a companion to «Assassin's Creed III» now feels like less in the long shadow of «Black Flag.»

Keeping your empire alive feels like treading water — build two colonies, max out their defenses, and then they get destroyed almost immediately.

And even though the fact the dog has already lost its consciousness, it looks like its treading water, regardless, there's no water.

I won't give anything away but if you're aware of the story about Ralston, it's almost like treading water until your told what you already know.

Whether is home instruction or group lessons, toddlers on up can learn the basics, like treading water and floating, quite easily.

Being the mom of two little ones with autism, feels like treading water with weights on.

The plan was to slowly grow and use the earnings to fund a larger operation, but in reality, a space that is too small to generate substantial profits is like treading water until you are too tired to stay afloat and you go under.

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If you're like many businesses, you may feel like you are constantly treading water in a freezing lake.

Personally, at best the club has felt like it has been treading water for years, but now there is a real realisation that we have lost so much ground to the bigger European clubs that we look like minnows compared to the likes of Barcs, Bayern etc..

It's not that the Ducks are always explosive or always «on» (though to be sure, they sometimes do have games like that); it's that they successfully tread water until they find an advantage to exploit, then exploit the living hell out of it.

It's come to feel like Cyborg was treading water for the last 5 - 7 years waiting for a suitable challenge to show up, with more action regarding ethics, weight, twitter meats, org politics and the occasional #runningmanchallenge than actual in - ring beyond - the - asswhooping interestingness.

We're looking to offload Gibbs, who's been treading water for at least a year now, and Kolasinac looks like he fits the bill.

Otherwise he may be left to tread water and exhaust patience like Van Gaal whose own foundations still far from firm after almost two years in the job.

It's painful to see the club looking like it is treading water in trying to be a big club in Europe when the infrastructure should be there for it to flourish.

Leeds are at the point where it doesn't look like relegation or the playoffs will occur, so the team is seeming to tread water while Bolton are on a mission to stay in the Championship.

Making something feels like a real achievement in a world where I often feel I'm treading water.

Then you can decide with your husband how you want to tread water through the next few weeks until M goes back to her old sleeping ways (and I won't promise she'll just abruptly go back to the way she was like mine did, but she'll definitely drift back to normal).

It sounded much more practical than Byrne's assertion that Labour must «move on decisively from the New Labour package, but remain on centre ground,» which came across a little bit like a suggestion that Labour must appear to move on, while actually continuing to tread the same water as 1997.

«While flying the robot feels as if it is treading water; while swimming it feels like it is surrounded by molasses.

It started to really feel like I was treading water.

Instead of diving into the deep end like La Ciénaga with fine - tuned, ensemble characterizations and clenched - fist resolve regarding legacies of racism and economic inequality, it cautiously treads water, uncertain if it should take the plunge.

Dumbledore is, along with Lord Voldemort, the greatest wizard in the land, a wise leader and a strong warrior who commands great loyalty and respect from all walks of magical life, yet there is none of this command in Gambon's performance, and many times it feels like he's treading water - filling the suit until the next scene, and that's a damned shame.

«Silver Surfer» # 4 feels like a comic that just spent an issue treading water.

But while most seem content temporarily trying out life in the director's chair, there are a few that like to tread into more unfamiliar waters — even if that involves leaving the movie business altogether.

I'm not a fan of reset films in general, I don't like paying to watch a film that should start when it ends, nor any film that narratively treads water to set up a next entry.

Just felt like another tread - water film for Carrell.

Neither a full - fledged new beginning but also far from treading water, the movie feels like a celebration, of friendship, collaboration and all that is silly and glorious in the human spirit.

The first half feels more like it's treading water than giving any insight towards its main character, and the twisty conclusion is more of a head - scratcher than a satisfying payoff.

However, he never quite manages to maintain the necessary levels of suspense, and, by the time the excitement should be peaking in the final act, the film feels like it is treading water.

It's expanded, but it also feels like it's treading water.

Denzel Washington and Andrew Garfield may survive tepid reviews for «Roman J. Israel, Esq.» and «Breathe,» respectively, but Jake Gyllenhaal feels like he's on stronger ground with, uh, «Stronger»; David Gordon Green's latest was very well - received for a film that treads familiar water.

It's one thing progressing a story, it's another to make the audience feel like they are treading water until the next big thing.

It felt like he had run his course and was treading water, albeit in an entirely pleasant fashion.

It's just that this time, some of the international cross cutting and blurry flashbacks feel like the series treading water instead of actual forward momentum.

He does throw in some nice jokes and witty retorts, but more often than not Sidewalks of New York feels like it is treading water.

But their shaved tread means that they respond to rain like the devil does to holy water.

I was using it a lot between small bursts of charging sessions, so it felt like my battery was constantly treading water at about 50 %.

I'm no expert, but after having tried out all these to some extent both now and during my recent grad school affair, I can say one thing: all of it can make you feel like an elephant treading water....

Bridgeman, and agencies like it, provide copyright clearance and advice on all of these issues, so you are not treading the waters alone.

If you're in your 40s, you probably feel like you're treading water.

Credit card balances with high interest rates can often make it feel like you're treading water when you make your minimum monthly credit card payment.

Many stocks, like IBM, tread water because of the buyback.

Zamano (ZMNO: ID): Tsk tsk, I should be bloody delirious about my 2014 gain here... But it basically occurred in a single post-investment write - up surge last May, so it feels like old news, with the share price treading water since (well short of my fair value target)!

I am using collars right now plus I have a fair amount of cash as my purchasing criteria have not been hit so it seems like things are treading water right now.

For the rest of the year, CRH's business was left treading water (vs. steady progress in 2011), and the stock looked like it would hit my target on a number of occasions.

Nothing worries pet parents more than seeing their otherwise healthy and rambunctious dog suddenly fall, twitch, and tread water like crazy even though it's on solid ground.

Many dogs also exhibit the characteristic water - treading behavior wherein your dog will be acting like it is paddling in water.

There's no denying that Ascension feels like a series treading water with a distinct lack of new ideas or epic set pieces, but series fans will still enjoy it thanks to the frantic combat and gory finishers.

Smaller studios, like SSG and Broadsword, are going to continue to tread water with interesting expansions and updates for their games that won't quite recapture former glory.

MotoGP 17 could be seen as a last hurrah for Milestone's ageing game engine, but even with new modes and technical improvements, it feels more like they're treading water while waiting to revitalise the series next year with Unreal Engine 4.