Sentences with phrase «little blank slates»

When you superimpose on all of these little blank slates the powerful external forces at work to promote poor eating choices — coupled with the fact that processed, unhealthful foods are generally delicious — it's surprising indeed if any child chooses the brown rice over the pizza slice.

That doesn't mean they are born little blank slates ready to be written on.

Not exact matches

Unfinished combos are like blank slates, with a little planning and cans of paint you can be a couple of hours away from something amazing.

Moretz sometimes seems like a blank slate, given that the wallflower nature of the character gives her little to do in her own scenes, but she manages to inject Carrie with a wide eyed sense of longing.

«Over the years we've continually changed little pieces of the formula and oftentimes it's just to affect a problem in one or two school districts, but too many times when you fix one problem in one place it causes a problem somewhere else,» he said, adding he wants to start with a blank slate and go «in any direction that the evidence leads us.»

While young puppies, for the most part, are blank slates with little or no behavioral or training problems, it seems like at some point or another, some issues just seem to pop out of nowhere.

Anyways, we had dog therapy twice a week and I went each time, but they kept bringing these dopey, blank slate labs and hyperactive little dogs that just made my heartbreaking separation from my own guys that much worse.

She gains more personality during cutscenes and as she interacts more with the supporting cast — they too take some time to grow on you — but she reverts to being a blank slate a little too often.

They are a blank slate onto which a viewer can project as much or as little psychological trauma as they want.

«Little brushstrokes on a blank slate cause our mind to formulate and collect an explanation.

The Origin or Falcon cases have just the right amount of room for the parts that are included, with a little space for expansion, rather than being a blank slate with room for a large number of components.

Some theorists insist that a newborn is a blank slate and you, as the parent, write their story, while others claim that who a child becomes is a complete result of genetics and there is little, if anything, that a parent can do to change this predisposition.

«I think it might be helpful for people to envision their own décor if they had a little bit more of a blank slate.

It's a completely blank slate and it'll probably stay that way until we turn it into a room for our little one next year.