Sentences with phrase «mere suggestions of»

The focus and precision of these small patches and plots fades as the eye works toward the edges of the canvas, akin to what the human eye does when focusing on one area of landscape: The edges blur and become mere suggestions of forms.

Winds are still whipping, snow is still falling upstate and in Chicago, blooms are still only mere suggestions of buds, and the sun's warmth is not yet fully baked.

Considering all the guff women have bravely endured over the years, it seems to me that any man who feels threatened by a powerful woman, can't take criticism from a woman, or can't tolerate the merest suggestion of female superiority is just being wussy.

In fact he was ignored completely and the mere suggestion of him being up there was ridiculed and laughed at even by our very own fans.

Is it Henry who flopped at a whole Champion League final, and jumping up at suggestion, mere suggestion of being given the role like a kid get a candi bar, that is worth listening to.

If Weigl was available, there would be many clubs interested in the player, which would cause an auction - like bidding system for the player, which I am sure Mourinho and United would be keen to avoid, so the mere suggestion of United's interest in the play could cause another diversion with United having a clear run at whoever they see as the player to solve the midfield problem.

It's obvious those relationships were abusive, period; cheating was the least of their problems and there wasn't even any cheating involved, just the mere suggestion of an affair was enough to send someone over the edge.

She is well rounded and emotionally adjusted during the day, but breaks down at the mere suggestion of bedtime.

We're so accustomed to using oil - free moisturizers and makeup, that the mere suggestion of using an oil sounds horrifying.

Harper's Bazaar, a magazine aimed at upper - class women, backed up the claim by featuring the first razor ad, which proclaimed, «Fashion says evening gowns must be sleeveless or made with the mere suggestion of gauzy sleeves of tulle or lace.

Given its lack of melodrama, its deliberate pacing, its mere suggestion of emotional challenges, Haigh's film comes across as too controlled to arouse more than a modicum of audience regard outside of an appreciatopm for characterizations of two real pros.

As they say, an athlete's legs are the first to go, and while the Altima's suspension feels fine on the freeway, its knees buckle at the mere suggestion of cornering forces.

I know from experience that you're tempted to drink and eat more, thanks to the mere suggestion of a bite to eat or quick drink when perhaps you didn't actually need one.

As time progressed, the Hall faded away until it became a mere suggestion of a dome.

And before the great and the good of the art world throw up their hands in horror at the mere suggestion of dispersing his legacy, the Charity Commission decreed in 1995 that the Turner bequest was free of Turner's conditions, and there was no obligation to keep them together.

Within this exhibition, Belanger constructs a stark diorama, offering the mere suggestion of a space.

While the talks were ultimately unsuccessful, the mere suggestion of a bigger player in the market has prompted wider debate about litigation boutiques and size — how big is too big?

«The mere suggestion of a Google ban shrank the market significantly.

If you feel insulted by the mere suggestion of buying a 2016 - released Windows 10 Mobile device that's been effectively left in the lurch in terms of software support, perhaps Amazon can interest you in the Android - powered sequel to the Idol 4S the US retailer just started selling last month.

First, the mere suggestion of individual therapy feels like more shame — more you're - not - good - enough.

As for being enveloped in art gallery «white walls» throughout my home; the mere suggestion of them is way too stark for me however «to each their own» as my statement is not to offend.

but I had a builder who took my plans as a mere SUGGESTION of what I wanted... * sigh *, so we're going to be «tweaking» things for many years to come.

Not exact matches

Though many of these haters would chafe at the mere suggestion, it's a devastating cooperative relationship: domestic anti-Semites, while cherry - picking useful tips on online organizing and youth recruitment from Islamist terror groups» successes, are also emboldening terrorists.

The mere suggestion that CP could be put in the hands of Harrison was enough to convince JPMorgan Chase analyst Thomas Wadewitz to raise his rating on CP (to neutral from underweight).

The mere suggestion that a rational explanation of creation is possible, and indeed probable in the future, is enough to destroy the tender shoots of faith in immature souls and has done so on a vast scale and not just in atheistic regimes.

My premise is the suggestion that what we call imagination is a central ingredient in any religious experience and that the proper uses of he imagination save religion from being either a mere system of rational statements on the one hand or an unsystematized mélange of experiences on the other.

One reason for this is, of course, that the actual liturgies — the forms which are employed in the conduct of such worship — are not new creations; in almost every instance they are adaptations of ancient and hallowed usages, freighted with the devotion of the ages, and they manage to convey suggestions which are much deeper than mere verbalization.

The merest suggestion that religion is needed is a fundamental insult to the intelligence of all humanity.

As my friends well know, I'll tolerate a barrage of vicious insults before I'll tolerate the mere suggestion that I might be uninformed.

The vegetables and amounts below are mere suggestions purely given in order to try and make a reasonable judgement on the quantities you may need for either feeding a crowd or making ahead for a number of meals.

Let's place aside the thought that, since being a footballer apparently empowers the world to hurl abuse your way on the slightest suggestion of the merest scintilla of the tiniest fraction of provocation, perhaps it's not that «lucky» a way to live your life after all.

The power is in the mere idea of an open - ended suggestion.

I was so completely overcome with emotion at the mere suggestion that my baby was constantly hungry and not getting enough to eat that, of course, I made the switch.

We use recipes as mere suggestions to make our own creations full of delicious smells that make your stomach rumble with anticipation.

Even if a judge ends up ruling in your favor the stress of the mere suggestion (let alone a big fight) can yield tragic results.

The Federal Election Commission's new chair, Ann Ravel, wants to take a fresh look at whether the agency should get involved in requiring disclosure of campaign activity and money in politics online, and as Dan Morain writes in the Sacramento Bee, the mere suggestion has already got some right - wingers in a lather.

To turn his suggestion on its head, reality — not its mere shadow — may take place on a distant boundary surface, while everything we witness in the three common spatial dimensions is a projection of that faraway unfolding.

The mere suggestion provoked outraged disbelief and a torrent of declarations that any such vandalism would presage The End of British Medicine As We Know It.

With a mere suggestion, Principal Krupp believes he is Captain Underpants, and the boys are able to take control of his actions.

The non-cartoon scenes are pared down to mere suggestion — a shockingly modest change from a directing duo who brought us an unspeakable new use for semen and the indelible image of a chicken protruding from someone's rear.

So even while keeping us aware of her medium and its limitations, Moreau reminds us of its power of suggestion, its extension beyond mere light, into feeling and meaning.

Shawn Cornally provided wonderful suggestions on how teachers should change their gradebooks (and their instructional perspective) to logbooks, reflecting mastery of learning objectives rather than mere assignment completion.

The following tips are mere suggestions and not all of them are applicable to all personal situations.

While she says right in her post that artists should limit the amount of time that they spend on Fiverr.com projects, apparently the mere suggestion that ANY piece of art could sell for as little as $ 5 was enough to release the hounds of war.

I just love the simplicity of his paintings, his dramatic use of light, subtle use of colour, and the techniques he employs to create atmosphere through mere suggestion is truly breathtaking.

We know for a fact aerosols can affect warming so this removes any suggestion of mere coincidence.

Some of the ideas are mere suggestions and others are based on the information that the Sea Level Research Group (SLRG) has put out on their website.

The suggestion that recent warming is anthropogenic due to divergence from a simple 60/20 year curve fit over a mere 100 years ignores prior divergence from both competing models of distantly past temperature, one being a hockey stick that shows a slow decline instead of incline prior 1850 and the other showing two similar «non-cyclical» spikes in the Roman and medieval periods.

The suggestion that this warming is a consequence of reduced human CFC output is a mere guess.

One might reasonably speculate, however, that the reason that they chose to send out their demands on lawyers» letterhead (or fake lawyers» letterhead in the case of Wonga) is that the mere suggestion that lawyers are involved in the matter creates generates more pressure, if not fear, on the recipient of the letter.