Sentences with phrase «mean tricks on»

The ego plays a lot of mean tricks on people, and no one is more susceptible than the new writer.

While you're fighting off a host of physical and emotional side effects of cutting out sugar, your body is going to play a mean trick on you by kicking in sugar cravings hard.

Josh Brolin's Lt. Det. Christian «Bigfoot» Bjornsen emerges as another product of bogeyman / mythological figure: the stoic representative of law and order who, at one point, plays a mean trick on Doc by making him think Shasta's been found dead, while at another he's seen as henpecked and small as his wife (Delaina Mitchell) berates Doc for the shrink bills he's inspired.

Avoid long introductions, they are unnecessary here and can play a mean trick on you.

Not exact matches

Then again, the sub - $ 60,000 price tag on our tricked - out tester means that even if Alfa cut some corners, the savings were passed along.

Focusing on results is not a Jedi mind trick meant to deceive.

I've been experimenting on living way below my means and trick myself into getting that hunger again, but it's not really working.

I find many people obsess about a single number as if it had some real meaning, and tie themselves in knots to prove they have the «wealth» they have decided on (counting illiquid assets like homes being a common sneaky trick).

The Law society, in other words, has given «guidance» to its members as to how to draft wills in a way which circumvents English legal principles as they have always been accepted: and it envisages that this might even mean taking on the English law in court to see if their wily little legal tricks have been successful: a perfect example of an attempt to make the letter of the law prevail over its spirit: Christians will remember that, according to St Paul (2 Corinthians 3:6), «the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life».

What my metaphor means to indicate is that just as we all experience changes, welcome and unwelcome, in our lives, the wise position to take is to relate to it all as if there was someone playing tricks on us.

Of course, there are things we can be unified on with people who do not follow Jesus, for Paul wrote that our struggle is not against flesh and blood, which means that if we find ourselves struggling with flesh and blood, we have been tricked into fighting the wrong thing.

I would have no means of knowing whether this persecution was in fact simply a confidence trick on the part of others, universally pretending sorrow in order to win power over me.

Today this «5 minute cake» really did the trick and meant that I could have a 10 minute time - out before rushing off the do the next thing on my list... so much to do today... busy busy busy, I will reveal all very soon!

We even processed the jars, which meant that we had Pickled Watermelon Rind on hand for years to trot out as a party trick.

At Ships Coffee Shop in Culver City, that meant including statements such as «We don't use substitutes or resort to any tricks in food preparation, such as meat tenderizer or strong condiments» on the back of its 1971 menu.

I mean, I was of the generation that went trick - or - treating on our way home from school, stopped in to scramble to do any little bit of homework that any witchy teachers dared to assign on Halloween, then it was back out with my friends to keep filling our bags with treats.

It means that Arsenal will at last have a trick star playing on the left wing and no Cm and no Fals striker.

Putting all of this on Mayweather would mean we're excusing the guys who taught him the trick, and that seems a bit disingenuous IMO.

Harry Kane's hat - trick at APOEL in the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday night means that Tottenham Hotspur have taken maximum points from their opening two games, joint with Real Madrid and six points ahead of Borussia Dortmund in Group H.

BetFred are doing their popular Double Delight and Hat - trick Heaven promotion for this game, meaning if you're player scores the game's first goal and goes on to score again, they will double your odds if he scores twice and treble them if he bags three!

The fact Chelsea played a day earlier should mean they hold the aces in the fitness department, but Steven Gerrard played only 45 minutes whilst vastly improving his confidence levels with a sublime 13 minute hat - trick as Fernando Torres watched on from the comfort of the Anfield stands.

If after a day you don't at least see some improvement on the stain, then that means that the sun most likely will not do the trick.

That's a mean trick to play on someone!

«Obsessive» means that OCD is playing tricks on the mind to make worries seem bigger and more important than they really are.

Of course, vegetables are going to be on the list of the best foods for kids, but that doesn't mean tricking your kids into eating them or trying to force your kids to eat brussels sprouts, broccoli, and spinach.

By now we had moved to Bedford, a cruel trick for life to play on one who loves the hills perhaps, but it meant we had new areas to explore.

sorry on being deceived i meant: you said business leaders were tricked by the Tories.

But the burgeoning emphasis on technology development means that career development isn't just about teaching old neuroscientists new tricks; it's also about educating engineers, physicists, and computer scientists in the basics of neuroscience.

There is more anxiety about ethics, for instance, which means that psychologists have less fun playing tricks on people.

That is a coincidence rather than something that had deep meaning rather then, «Boy, God has really played a trick on us».

In addition, the «free range» label doesn't really mean that all of those brands have raised their chickens on a sunny meadow — that little trick is called advertising.

Well, it turns out you can actually trick your body into getting muscle soreness by doing a lot of reps or focusing on forced negatives, for example, and that means DOMS are not a good measure of the success of your workout.

Studies suggest that artificial sweeteners like saccharin (Sweet»N Low, SugarTwin), aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal), and sucralose (Splenda) trick the brain into forgetting that sweetness means extra calories, making people more likely to over do it on sweet treats.

What this means is that you can't eat just «clean foods» and ignore calories, you can't supplement your way out of a bad diet, and you can't use some special timing tricks to enable you to binge eat on the evenings.

It's a mean trick your eyes play on you.

And even though the heat isn't oppressive just yet, that doesn't mean you can't get a jump on this season's newest stay - cool styling trick: off - the - shoulder everything.

On the skincare front I'm trying to religiously stick to a consistent routine which includes products I already talked about a lot recently, but the one true helpers this month have been the Peter Thomas Roth Max Complexion Correction Pads (# 24.95): to me summer means oily acne prone skin which is never too much fun, and this BHAs soaked pads really did the trick for me this month to keep my acne at bay and my skin looking as matte as possible.

The other issue is that certain scurrilous people or groups use online dating for unethical means like tricking lonely people out of their money convincing married people to cheat on their spouses while the site's owners make a tidy profit (* cough * ashley-madison.com * cough *)

Our latest video reveals some tips and trick on how to get the most out of your online dating experience... and by «the most» we obviously mean a hot date.

There are the all - too - ornate means of Kevin avoiding detection, again relying on clips from old films - a trick that was already old hat before the first film tried it.

This cleverly - concealed trick is only the first of many mind - bending twists which ensue, as the well - meaning doctor gradually ends up hopelessly ensnared with a criminal element intent on taking her for all she's worth.

Total Run Time: Approximately 60 minutes, Stereo / Mono Audio Additional Bonus Materials: Deleted Scene / Grim Grinning Ghost Anatomy of a Scene / Friday the 31st Fun Facts / pop - on video commentary for selected segments Photo Gallery / Behind - The - Scenes of Bad Seed Storyboards / Ding Dong Three Audio Tracks: 5.1, 2.0, Commentary Three Subtitle Tracks: French, Spanish, English Soundtrack Listing: Tales of Halloween Main Title - Lalo Schifrin Sweet Tooth - Christopher Drake The Night Billy Raised Hell - Bobby Johnston Trick - Joseph Bishara The Weak and the Wicked - Austin Wintory Grim Grinning Ghost - Christian Henson Ding Dong - Sean Spillane This Means War - Michael Sean Colin Friday the 31st - Joseph Bishara Limbchoppalooza!

While the Direct is focused on 3DS news, with no information about NX or mobile titles to be announced, that doesn't mean the Big N doesn't have a trick or two up their sleeves.

This morning's Nintendo Direct was meant to be focused exclusively on 3DS titles, but, as always, Nintendo had a few tricks ready to go right in the middle of the direct.

Gertrud renounces external eventfulness in order to cultivate internal or imaginative eventfulness» — and using the (constant - and - never - moving as a way to allow viewers to focus on acting and the body rather than on technical formalist tricks, in fact, the shots are the longest technically allowable before the invention of digital shooting) camera merely as a functional recording - device rather than as an originator of instant meaning and knowledge as in Hollywood, this film remains the best summation of the truism that a longwinded presentation of several actors merely speaking for ten - minutes - a-scene while the camera does not move and no artificial and manipulative «cinematic language» is involved, in other words, the dreaded «merely filmed non-cinematic literature and theatre,» not only has a much greater capacity to teach than any Hollywood mode of filmmaking but is more dramatic than any car chase.

While this means a lot of hacking and slashing, it almost means dropping stalactite on its head or tricking it into standing on an erupting lava flow.

He reinforces that message throughout the school year by teaching cognitive strategies alongside core content, such as explicit instruction on the organizational skills that students will need to complete a research project, and tricks for puzzling out the meaning of unfamiliar terms.

Vocabulary tricks: Effects of instruction in morphology and context on fifth grade students» ability to derive and infer word meaning.

Those same modern EFI tricks mean the Camaro's big 6.2 - liter V8 is perfectly content puttering along in traffic, and huge torque reserves allow the car to be left in fourth gear for just about any driving over 15 mph; at the same time, a sixth gear means the SS cruises at 80 mph on the highway turning fewer than 2,000 rpm, so there's a tremendous amount of flexibility in the powertrain.

Just because Halloween falls on a Monday this year doesn't mean the trick - or - treaters are going to stay inside.