Sentences with phrase «more insensitive»

We're more sensitive to our best friend's offhanded remark and more insensitive to our other best friend's dating woes.

This may sound incongruent with the more recent, very sensational presentation of some of the community's more insensitive or thoughtless members — and Seth was no apologist for that behavior.

It appears that for some Nittany Lions fans, the more they defend the school's legacy, the more insensitive and outrageous they become.

Not exact matches

GoPro has burned through the pros, the enthusiasts, and the super-picky and price - insensitive people and now they're staring into the consumer chasm and facing a world of competitors (including all the phone manufacturers whose offerings keep getting better, cheaper and more waterproof).

Far from offering the sort of insightful, well - informed take that has brought the site as many as 35 million monthly uniques and won kudos from everyone from Nas to Junot D?az, they were more akin to the sort of juvenile remark one might find buried in the comments thread on a low - budget news aggregator: cruel, idiotic, shockingly insensitive, and misogynistic.

«More than two decades ago, I co-wrote a book with several insensitive, crudely argued statements,» he said in a statement.

«It was not our intent to be insensitive to issues of authenticity and ethnicity, and we will look to recast the part with an actor more consistent with the character in the source material.»

«The later stages of the 2009 — 2017 bull market are a valuation illusion built on share buyback alchemy... The technique optically reduces the price - to - earnings multiple because the denominator doesn't adjust for the reduced share count... Share buybacks are a major contributor to the low volatility regime because a large price insensitive buyer is always ready to purchase the market on weakness... Share buybacks result in a lower volatility, lower liquidity, which in turn incentivizes more share buybacks, further incentivizing passive and systematic strategies that are short volatility in all their forms... Like a snake eating its own tail, the market can not rely on share buybacks indefinitely to nourish the illusion of growth.

I have to agree with Susan and Sarah although their comments seem to come off as belligerent and perhaps insensitive, given the nature of this article and the congruence of their posts to the word of God they have a much more biblical stance than the chaplain.

Please, IM4FREEDOM, don't talk like an ignorant atheist, what I mean is there are intelligent atheists, as well as ignorant atheists; also there are intelligent Christians as well as ignorant Christians, but your remark sounds more like an ignorant, accusing, sarcastic, insensitive atheist.

It is not always a dogmatic and insensitive cleric that inflicts pain and discouragement on those whose faith calls them to seek a deeper, more meaningful relationship with God than that marketed for mass (lowest common denominator) consumption by the institutional church.

His real name was George Pease Williams, but to ward off insensitive school - yard taunts as a young boy he constructed a more elegant middle name for himself, and this is how he was known for the rest of his life: George Huntston Williams (1914 - 2000).

He must really risk mutual discussion with the world, must take for granted that he will not only teach but learn thereby, that the whole truth is always richer and more mysterious than what he has already explicitly grasped, that between the real truth of yesterday, today and tomorrow there exists a deeper hidden agreement than is realized either by insensitive innovators or diehard defenders of the old at any price.

Among both Roman Catholics and Protestants in Germany there were those who, as the New Testament says about the apostle Paul's involvement in the martyrdom of Stephen, were «consenting to the death» of the Jews (Acts 8:1), and many more who were (as it seems now, by hindsight) blindly insensitive to the situation.

Governments concerned to slow their birth rates will support the freedom of women to limit the number of their children more than will governments which are insensitive to this need.

It's more than insensitive, its indifferent.

«This culture of waste has made us insensitive even to the waste and disposal of food, which is even more despicable when all over the world many individuals and families are suffering from hunger and malnutrition.»

It is difficult for someone who does not have any food allergies / sensitivities to understand this — making yourself more educated may give you a better understanding of how some people respond to certain foods — only an intelligent person would know better than to reply with such an insensitive response.

In order to make your baby feel more comfortable around family, friends and even strangers, be sure to remind these people not to make insensitive remarks, stare or point at him.

They are also more likely to do well academically and socially in adulthood than children who experience insensitive or harsh caregiving.

It's about pushing a broader philosophical position on how mothers should be, and it's one I find regressive, insensitive and more than a little bit cultish.

But lawmakers were more likely to drill into Wray's leadership style and how he would operate under a president who has appeared insensitive to the traditionally bright boundary between the White House and the FBI.

The John Mahama - led NDC Government has, through the PURC, presented the long - suffering people of Ghana with yet another wicked and insensitive present just when Ghanaians are bracing themselves for probably the worst Christmas in a generation: a more than 60 % increase in the price of electricity and water.

After all, they felt like a voicing of the tacit undercurrent of all my classes and lab experiences, just a few more in a series of insensitive comments to be borne and silently proved wrong by working harder.

People concerned about these issues, the OSU researchers suggested, might be more conscious of their own comments on social media, and also more willing to engage with others who are using language that is insensitive or potentially hurtful.

The result is a kind of perfect Goldilocks sensor: not as insensitive as common, flexible metallic sensors, but not as rigid or cumbersome as popular, more sensitive semi-conductor sensors.

Because the loss of CO2 from the atmosphere is temperature sensitive (higher temperature leads to more rain and more carbonate formation) but the source of the CO2 is temperature insensitive (volcanoes do not care about the surface temperatures), the whole cycle forms a net negative feedback cycle: higher temperatures will result in cooling and lower temperatures will result in warming.

In his book «The Way Things Ought To Be» (1993) Limbaugh stretched the facts still further: «Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines spewed forth more than a thousand times the amount of ozone - depleting chemical in one eruption than all the fluorocarbons manufactured by wicked, diabolical, and insensitive corporations in history.»

It can make you appear naive and insensitive and lead to more conflict.

Obese children found it significantly more difficult to differentiate between the different taste sensations, and were particularly insensitive to salty, umami and bitter tastes.

However, if you regularly consume caffeine, you may need more as you become insensitive to it and its effects over time.

The constant bombardment of insulin on your cells causes them to become insensitive to insulin's effects over time — meaning more and more insulin is needed to achieve a similar result.

Such insensitive portrayals of Africans as evil and uncivilized eventually became controversial in more enlightened times.

Reuniting with director Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters, Kinsey), McKellen brings the world's greatest detective to life in a somewhat sedate mystery, more of an examination of the ravages of old age and senility, and the guilt that can prey upon those who have perhaps been a bit too insensitive.

2016 sensibilities required Derrickson to jettison the culturally - insensitive, stereotypic western interpretation Eastern mysticism, but the enigmatic Swinton goes even farther against her own type playing a more folksy, plain - spoken Ancient One than you might expect.

Now, I'm really not trying to slam the film because it is insensitive while pretending it's not, or even for the sexual humor that permeates much of the film's more ambitious gags.

Avengers: Infinity War is a THANOS movie... Thanos has been teasing us for a very long time & finally, the insensitive Titan has decided to show up on earth in search of more infinity stones.

She isn't great yet with characters on the periphery — Bill is a one - dimensional corporate bad guy / insensitive husband, and it's depressing to see the great Chloë Sevigny cast in a generic role as Owen's mom — but Amos, Diane, and Owen are all vivid and credible enough to support a less - hokey, more rough - hewn narrative.

Today - more than a generation after the student upheavals, the civil - rights movement, and the establishment (and then challenge) of affirmative - action programs - it seems out of date, too planned, and insensitive to America's diversity.

It seems rather insensitive of you to make light of this incident and what happened to Ms Rolland by ending the article so casually about how perhaps Brittain will make more sales now due to his violent act.

This measure is not insensitive to the level of income being considered — a 10 % increase in the price of books will have more impact (% change in expenditures on books) on me than it will on Donald Trump, despite the fact that books are a line - item in our family budget, ranked behind food and shelter, but before clothing.

In fact, the latest round of US airline consolidation simply encourages them to slap passengers around even more — I'm sure they plan to raise prices significantly, particularly on transatlantic routes where they perceive US passengers to be relatively price insensitive.

Some people are so insensitive to those that have animals, and think they are more of a burden, and if there's a medical problem, they think «put them down, their not worth the time and money!»

I think the most likely impact of finding that the MWP was more pronounced than currently thought is that the models will have proved too insensitive to forcings.

But Harry Collins's detailed work on the history and sociology of gravitational wave detection is a counterexample to that thesis: The field's pioneer, who became a heretic for claiming to detect the waves with an apparatus generally believed to be orders of magnitude too insensitive (and inexpensive), was refuted in print and challenged at meetings in a scientific but fairly gentle fashion (given the stakes for those trying to raise money for more - sensitive detectors).

More or less everything else that I have written is insensitive to the actual numbers and other details except the «guestimate» that multiplying the error range by 1.5 would be enough.

Thus the statement quoted above [climate being insensitive to radiative forcing] is more a hypothesis than a conclusion.»

One reason is that it can be relatively insensitive to the choice of discount rate and therefore may give more robust insights, whereas net benefits may be extremely sensitive to this choice (more on this below).

I already raised the point: either the time constant is very short and the sea level rise will be kept in reasonable values (< 50 cm), or it is much longer and it will be quite insensitive to what we are doing just now — it will keep rising anyway and reach one meter or more.

Some battery technologies are very insensitive to cycling (ultracapacitors even more so).