Sentences with phrase «like unruly»

This is the first of three articles on understanding complexity, and how our energy, economic and ecological systems, like unruly children, tend to defy our attempts to change them.

Ken Johnson: «Her pictures might be read as allegories of consciousness: mindscapes dominated by large, relatively slow - moving ideas — the big women — with nattering, peripheral thoughts, fantasies and anxieties carrying on like unruly children in the background.

The carbon paper leaves accidental smudges, like unruly children, and she incises the lines, like an adult setting limits.

Along your journey other curve balls are thrown at you like unruly teenagers, and you must deal with them accordingly.

Others, such as researchers from Harvard, think that obesity «stresses out» the cells like an unruly pimple in high school.

I feel like I waste a lot of minutes and hours when I let my thoughts run on like unruly kids.

That there may be some who need compulsion, some who, if they were free - footed, would riot in selfish pleasures like unruly beasts, is doubtless true; but a man must prove precisely that he is not of this number by the fact that he knows how to speak with dread and trembling; and out of reverence for the great one is bound to speak, lest it be forgotten for fear of the ill effect, which surely will fail to eventuate when a man talks in such a way that one knows it for the great, knows its terror — and apart from the terror one does not know the great at all.

No one likes an unruly, undisciplined, and impolite dog.

Not exact matches

Apparently, pick - up artists — men who make a sport out of trying to pick up women — have become such a problem at Toronto's Eaton Centre, the mall must now sweep them away like a flock of unruly pigeons.

Fast - food employees have been the butt of jokes for decades, and with good reason — with annual turnover for the industry topping as much as 50 percent, running a shift can be like monitoring an unruly detention hall.

And while this looks (obviously) like some kind of post-apocalyptic scenario, apparently Oklahoma is used to getting an unruly number of quakes: In 2014, Oklahoma recorded around 5,415 earthquakes, and stats for 2015 are still coming together — but the number is likely higher.

Gregory applies this analogy: The arrogant person is something like an unbroken horse, a wild, unruly animal that first must be stroked gently and only later controlled with aversive reinforcement.

But like life in general, sex seems to defy our attempts to be good; in both masturbation and in sexual partnership, unruly, wild, and unpredictable parts of ourselves often emerge.

The «christian view» goes something like this, «there is a benevolent sky daddy who made some arbitrary rules that include condoning slavery and stoning unruly children to death, and if I don't follow these rules, I burn in hell for all eternity... unless I ask for forgiveness at some point before I die, then all is forgiven and I live in heaven for all eternity, even if I'm a baby rapist!».

The child emerges like the grapes in the poem — unruly, bent on its own wild course.

The nine were rude, unruly and acted like... well, cavemen.

There we go again, shut up this hypocritical rightwingers.Only at election time do rear their ugly heads up to be seen and heard.It's time to unleash the CRACKKIN, the monster that the IRS people use on unruly religious groups, exemption is like a death sentence to these groups.Most of these religious leaders are wolves in sheeps clothing, selling their political poison to anyone in their flocks.They push the envelope on the seperation of church and state issue, seeing how far they can go.Pastors and ministers would never speak politics like this years ago, that was taaboo.Now people like Robertson, Graham, and the rest, flaunt their ideaology both religious and political at every event.They don't care about the legal consequences, they have LAWYERS, perishioners pay for that.

As long as a «righteous man», as Jesus supposedly called him, like Lot can offer an unruly crown his virgin daughters so that they can have their way with them there is no way that I would ever take advice from these moldy books or anyone that follows these Bronze Age fairy tales.

Except for the disappearance of a sometimes unruly Afro, Brown even looks like he did 20 years ago.

It is great for larger areas like the legs, underarms and in men for facial hair such as beards, but not so great for unruly eyebrows.

Now, candy canes are used for much more than quieting unruly kids — like prepping cocktails, popcorn and other sweet treats.

These people have very little understanding of what it's like to control a class of unruly teenagers, run a small business, deal with personnel management issues or directly tackle any one of the thousands of other issues that the rest of us in the real world deal with in our ordinary everyday lives.

To those who complain of unruly British classrooms, it must seem like heaven.

It works like a charm to soften, moisturize, and smooth out my unruly hair, but doesn't weigh my hair down at all!

However it is wise to listen to the parents, and very many of these see a connection between concentrated carbohydrate intake like sweets and unruly states.

Brow gel is always optional, but if your brows tend to get unruly — or if you like a more polished — finished look, brush a clear brow gel (for shine and hold) or a tinted brow gel (for a thicker, bolder finish, plus a dose of shine) through your brows, using short strokes to pull the hairs up and over.

I have very unruly brows that are a bit too thin and don't like to behave.

I especially like to apply it as a midday refresher to rehydrate and smooth out unruly tendrils.»

Not only am I boxed into this jacket, but I feel like I'm also boxed into this unruly heat wave in LA.

I like your safety protection against scammers and unruly ones.But please take note i saw a banned member came back as horsewhisperer70 by the photos.

Throughout their search to find Doug, they run into all sorts of Vegas mainstays like two police officers who have been waiting for an opportunity to get back at the unruly tourists who have made their lives hell.

It's easy to forget that Julianne Moore, Scoot McNairy, Michelle Dockery, Nate Parker, Corey Stoll and Lupita Nyong» o are all in the film as well, but when you've got Neeson doing things like bribing unruly passengers with free international flights to save the day, there's just no way anyone else can come close to stealing the spotlight.

It's a complete transformation of her tactics in more ways than one — reptilian, truly terrifying, unruly and unhinged, just like this piece of grand Grand Guignol.

If The Last Jedi were a person, it would be a gap - toothed child with a grin like an intergalactic sunrise — part of its charm is the unruly cowlick sticking up on its head.

If you've been pining for the return of unruly, politically charged provocations like Wild in the Streets and Putney Swope, Boots Riley is here to make your moviegoing year.

Like Lean on Pete, Arnold's film follows a rootless teenager in search of some form of familial belonging — in her case, with a gang of likewise aimless youths hawking magazine subscriptions across the midwest — but is supersized and expressively unruly where Haigh's is contained and watchful.

My students» unruly ways made it seem like all I did each day was put out one brush fire after another.

Like the fabled Wild West town, it is unruly and disordered,» he wrote in 2006.

Like the fabled Wild West town, it is unruly and chaotic.

Kids are not failing because they are unmotivated or unruly, but because they often suffer from what Weissbourd called «quiet» problems: sleep depravation, vision problems, and external responsibilities like childcare.

Neighborhood public schools serving complexes like Woodside Houses thus didn't have to contend with unruly adolescents; they had already been weeded out by the Housing Authority.

Not only does it deliver SUV - like utility and a maximum cargo capacity of 1,990 litres, it does so without the unruly ride.

But it does a remarkable job of taking the edge off unruly pavement and the like.

http://russellblake.com/everything-youve-read-about-hachette-vs-amazon-is-wrong/ He refers to Amazon as a tyrant and companies like Hatchette as defenders of literature against the unruly hordes (us.)

-- or maybe not like worms but like a million little podules, each a tiny city of cancer, each with an unruly, sprawling, environmentally careless citizenry with no zoning laws whatsoever.

Like always, I raise completely valid points and have to ensure the flaming torches and pitchforks from the unruly.

-LSB-...] There are several good resources on what makes for a good ebook cover — I like this list at Unruly Guides.

Just like an adolescent human, an adolescent site can be a bit unruly and unpredictable.

From unruly behavior like jumping up on people or eating poop, to mounting, dominance is thought to be the root of all bad behavior.

Aussies thrive when they have an active purpose like controlling a herd of unruly sheep or pleasing their owners in daily training sessions.