Sentences with phrase «more flattering as»

Go for a midi dress or something with an accentuated waist, it usually help to make something more flattering as it adds movement to the outfit!

The short puff sleeve seemed more flattering as well, so I did end up using it in the end.

Also, it is more flattering as I age, of course.

The characters have somehow become more flat as Josh Duhamel's and John Turturro's recurring characters have somehow gotten more boring.

Not exact matches

As with flat - rate pricing, it's simple to understand, but in many cases, costs you more.

What's more, while 95 percent of small businesses are organized as pass - throughs (based on 2014 Treasury Dept. data) rather than traditional C - corporations, the CNBC / SurveyMonkey Small Business Survey found the most support (68 percent) for the tax plan among C - corps — which would receive the flat corporate tax - rate reduction to 20 percent.

As various leaks had suggested, the Galaxy S8 Active ditches the curved sides of the standard Galaxy S8 for a flatter, more traditional design.

I would say probably the most — one of the areas that changed the most is that there was a much more of a hierarchical focus in companies as I was entering the business world than today where we see much more of a flat structure, a more egalitarian structure and the reality is that the employees of today are looking for that.

The book's purpose is twofold: to explain how notions of leadership have changed in recent decades (with flat organizations, a more democratic world and individual - empowering technology, leaders — surprise — are not as powerful as they used to be), and to expose the faults — and propose some fixes — for her own industry.

While lower gas prices mean consumers theoretically have more disposable income, the Commerce Department recently reported that US retail sales were flat as shoppers have other priorities.

Material design employs the same aesthetic as flat design, focusing on simplicity and clean presentation, but Google's design has more subtlety.

He grew up bodysurfing in South Africa, and he enjoyed using random flat objects, like fast - food trays, as hand planes to help him gain more control over a wave as he glided across it.

The research revealed that not only do people rate wooded mountain areas as more calm and peaceful and open ones — such as the beach or a flat city — as more sociable and stimulating, but it also found that in actual fact more introverts really do live in mountainous areas and extroverts in flat, open ones.

Hiring is up and unemployment is down, but as of 2014, Americans still weren't making any more money: Median household income has been essentially flat since the recession ended in 2009.

While Buffett admits a home is a great place to create «terrific memories with more to come,» he believes it falls flat as an investment vehicle.

As Joe explains, if your blog audience numbers stay flat month over month but the composition of the audience includes more designated accounts, that's a marketing success.

The top influencer spenders last month, as estimated by Points North, include names you've likely heard of, such as Amazon, Walmart and Mercedes Benz, but also the more obscure — at least until that influencer spending kicks in — like Flat Tummy, Waist Gang Society and SugarBearHair vitamins.

Since the 1990s, though, Japan's growth has been mostly flat, and trade friction much more subdued, even as the United States continues to run large trade deficits with Japan.

To some extent, stock market action also implies expectations for slower economic growth, though interest rate signals, such as a flat yield curve, are more suggestive of slow growth than stock market action is, and we've yet to see a substantial widening of credit spreads that would suggest imminent recession.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weaknesAs usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weaknesas measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weaknesas measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

After enjoying a period of very strong performance, the shares of health care companies fell by more than 40 percent in value from the beginning of 1992 through the summer of 1993 (while the market was flat) as investors feared lower health care profits from proposals of broad nationalization and increased regulation.

It's still having trouble getting more customers in the door, as traffic was flat for the period, but it's a positive development that Olive Garden looks as though it has turned the corner.

Once restaurants or retailers sign up as partners, their delivery fees drop to a flat rate of $ 3.99, which makes customers more likely to order.

And if you literally mean a flat tax with from the first dollar (which is * NOT * what most flat tax proposals are, by the way — they all include at least a significant standard deduction)-- one with no deductions & credits (not even home interest deductions or charitable deductions or college deductions, etc), then we may as well be discussing what type of pig would fly more efficiently.

These early estimates, however, tend to be progressively revised up as more transactions are settled and processed, and the extent of these revisions in the past suggests a relatively flat final result.

In this context of aughties - unease, older conservative assumptions of a natural alliance between more libertarian Americans and more socially conservative ones, around the supposedly shared attributes of religious Liberty, economic Liberty, and political Liberty, with the threat of Islamist terror cast as the substitute for that of Communist domination, fell flat.

Recalling these heroic moments flatters Poland's patriotic self - image as a long - suffering but iron - willed people who have emerged victorious from more than two centuries of subjugation.

Just as a point of clarification to Bill's post above, while I welcome what I thinkis a imporant point we should al keep in mind I would in no way ever see myself as an important part of the conversation more a present somewhat comenting bystander although my ego was very flattered when I read Bill's comment

Atheist's are converted when they have an in - depth NDE and realize that you are NOT YOUR brain - mind and brain are separate and more and more people are waking up to that fact - sorry Atheist IS AS WRONG AS THOSE WHOM BELIEVED THAT THE EARTH WAS FLAT!!!

Makes much more sense to believe a book written 1850 years ago by a bunch of goat herders that thought the world was flat and didn't even have the sense not to use their drinking water as the toilet.

If atheism wants to be taken seriously as a belief system and not just as a rejectionist, negative viewpoint then y» all have got to provide something, a sense of community or of a greater human endeavour, something more than a flat denial.

Thoughtful, reflective persons are on the near side of this great modern divide, and I don't think they can go back to premodern ways of thinking, about values as well as religion (any more than they can go back to thinking that the world is flat or lies at the center of the universe).

Flat, blank facades on buildings conceived as commodities — or just oddities — rather than works of civic art; flat modernist pictorial abstractions; the flattening of cultural history into pseudo-history packaged as what Henry dismissed as «applied sociology» — all spoke to him of something far more ominous, the abasement of man and the crude negation of his proper relationship to nature as embodied in the great traditFlat, blank facades on buildings conceived as commodities — or just oddities — rather than works of civic art; flat modernist pictorial abstractions; the flattening of cultural history into pseudo-history packaged as what Henry dismissed as «applied sociology» — all spoke to him of something far more ominous, the abasement of man and the crude negation of his proper relationship to nature as embodied in the great traditflat modernist pictorial abstractions; the flattening of cultural history into pseudo-history packaged as what Henry dismissed as «applied sociology» — all spoke to him of something far more ominous, the abasement of man and the crude negation of his proper relationship to nature as embodied in the great tradition.

This is the more strange because the more deeply a concern is loaded with history, the past, things accomplished long ago, the more a church understands herself as a «pilgrim people of God» — that is, called, continuous, on the way, starting with a constitutive deed and living out her life in a hope which is both a given and an awaited consummation — the more clearly the church understands that, the more embarrassing her problem with a flat and impoverished language.

I can not here investigate why language in our time has become flat, nonallusive, and impoverished, but simply to observe that it has and ask what this means for our churches as they seek to recover ways of worship which shall be more adequate to the object of worship, and more fully reflective of the long history of the people of God in their life of worship.

That many people once believed the Earth was flat as well, didn't make it any more true.

«Again, the corrupt and unsound form of speaking in the plural number to a single person, you to one, instead of thou, contrary to the pure, plain, and single language of truth, thou to one, and you to more than one, which had always been used by God to men, and men to God, as well as one to another, from the oldest record of time till corrupt men, for corrupt ends, in later and corrupt times, to flatter, fawn, and work upon the corrupt nature in men, brought in that false and senseless way of speaking you to one, which has since corrupted the modern languages, and hath greatly debased the spirits and depraved the manners of men; — this evil custom I had been as forward in as others, and this I was now called out of and required to cease from.

They also tell me that people in the Middle Ages thought the earth was flat (everybody knew it was round), that women in the Middle Ages were no better than cattle (they had more freedom than they would enjoy until the twentieth century), that people in the Middle Ages were morose and grim (they were boisterous partiers who loved color), that they were morbidly fascinated with demons (they portrayed demons as ridiculous stooges), and they were oppressed by their kings (most of the kings were weak).

We usually aren't strictly vegan or gluten - free, but were so flattered by the offer that we didn't have to think more than 2 seconds before answering them that we would happily take it on as a challenge (while dancing a silly dance and singing «We are working with BA, we are working with BA...»).

The bread tastes fine but just very odd to eat as its so flat and strangely shaped — i usually just rip bits off and treat it more like crackers.

@Kanika, I normally don't keep Focaccia for second rise as I like my Focaccia to look more like a flat bread... but you may keep for second rise if you wish so.

Mould lamb into small patties (I press them flat so they just need to be browned either side and cooked through where as I find a ball - shape more difficult to evenly cook).

I found that putting all the bread flat as possible during the soaking period helped a lot, and tilting the pan at different angles over the course of a few hours helps distribute the custard better... and I leave it soak overnight, then pull it out for half an hour or so in the morning to let it soak up some more and get rid of the fridge chill.

Fresh coriander leaves are more commonly known as cilantro and bear a strong resemblance to Italian flat leaf parsley.

The latest addition to Primera's products, the AP550e, is a semi-automatic label applicator that makes it fast and easy to precisely apply product and identification labels onto a wide range of flat surfaces such as rectangular or tapered bottles, boxes, packages, bags, pouches, lids, tins and much more.

Inteplast's foodservice products include items such as can liners, T - Shirt bags, gloves, bread and bakery bags, foodservice wrap, reclosable freezer and food storage bags, poly aprons, deli and sandwich bags, bun rack and pan covers, and silverware bags; as well as food and utility bags, ice bags, ice bucket liners, pop - up deli sheets, wave - top bags for carryout, flat - bottom catering bags, and more.

1 package La Tortilla Factory Hand Made Style Flour Tortillas 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, plus some for brushing, divided salt and pepper to taste 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice, plus more to taste 1 (15 - ounce) can white beans (such as cannellini or Great Northern), rinsed, drained and coarsely chopped 1 medium tomato, diced 1/2 medium white onion, diced 1/2 cup coarsely chopped pitted mixed olives 2 tablespoons coarsely chopped fresh flat - leaf parsley 1 teaspoon thinly sliced lemon zest 1/8 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes

Unofficial data suggests flat output as small and medium - sized farmers continue to leave the sector more quickly than large - scale operations expand.

I was disappointed that they didn't raise up as high as my previous try (more flat and no peak in the middle).

Sales flatline for Britvic in Q1 fiscal - 2018 - trading update Britvic has reported flat sales for the first quarter of its fiscal - 2018, as the introduction of a sugar tax looms in its domestic market... read more