Sentences with phrase «more of a prick»

It's gotten to the point where I assume that anyone who says that basically just wants permission to be more of a prick than the traditional reading of the Gospels says that they should be (i.e. not at all).

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For Theranos to take lab - testing business from the two major lab companies used by doctors, Quest and LabCorp, and to partner to run tests for more hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and government agencies, it has to show it can get it right at every stage, from the preparation before it pricks someone's finger to the accurate processing of hundreds of thousands of samples.

The prototype, which Google says will take at least five years to reach consumers, is one of several medical devices being designed by companies to make glucose monitoring for diabetic patients more convenient and less invasive than the traditional finger pricks.

Founded in 2003 by Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos is now valued at more than $ 9 billion (soon possibly more) based on its push to create blood tests that require just a few drops of blood from a finger prick.

Theranos, a privately held company founded by Ms. Holmes, 31, after she dropped out of Stanford at age 19, has been trying to swat down suspicions that the capability it has promoted — being able to do a wide range of medical tests cheaply and quickly using only a finger prick of blood — is more hype than reality.

The former is the case with some poetic approaches which suggest that God could have saved us by a pin - prick in the hand of Christ and so in fact did something more than rationally required.

Unfortunately if you are an undersized prick who knows nothing about hockey you are more concerned with kickbacks, franchises in hot places and lying about CTE to worry about the state of the game.

a lot of people think he's an arrogant prick — i try to reserve judgement as you ha √ e to have some ego to succeed at that level, (is there anyone more arrogant than calipari / coach k?)

What's more, the shaft (pointed end) of the feather could poke the pillow ending up with pricking the child's face.

We're members of a profession known for its intellect, and the more we remember that, the more we act like absolute pricks.

More worryingly, preemies who had a greater number of negative touch experiences, including heel pricks, IV insertions, injections and tape removal, tended to have diminished brain responses to the puffs.

Formal allergy tests like skin prick and challenge tests done with your doctor can help you get a more reliable picture of whether or not a suspected food really is causing the problem.»

The most accurate, albeit more expensive, method for testing ketone bodies is through a skin - prick test that analyzes blood levels of beta - hydroxybutyrate.

Then he broke into film, through television with Alan Clarke's The Firm, and Mike Leigh's Meantime, and with Alex Cox's Sid and Nancy, Stephen Frears's Prick Up Your Ears, and Nick Roeg's Track 29 - five widely differing parts that proved him much more than just a colourful character actor able to do a lot of accents.

With the one - two punch of «Sid and Vicious» and «Prick Up Your Ears,» it was only a matter of time before Oldman made his way to more high - profile productions.

Grenville blithely leaves behind his idealism in favor of a more conventional idea of success, only to have his conscience pricked by Dalrymple's unconventional daughter, Charlotte, an activist for social justice, even as he's entering into a comfortable if passionless engagement with Dalrymple's other daughter, the passive, and much simpler, Emily.

She wants, he presumes, a more rebellious type of guy — a prick, which is the kind of guy he believes all women want over a nice guy like him.

Exhibiting a hearty dose of irony and a mordant sense of humor, DEADPOOL exuberantly embraces the conventions of the super-hero genre while fearlessly pricking the more pretentious conventions of same.

Yet these breathless asides are little more than pin - pricks of pleasure in a complex film which tries its darndest to be as uncomplex as possible.

After Prick's jolting opening scene — an extreme close - up of the gore - flecked face of Kenneth Halliwell (Alfred Molina), who calls out for the man he's just bludgeoned with a hammer — the film settles into a more conventional arc.

«Alan Bennett isn't writing Prick Up Your Ears every year, so there's a quality of writing that doesn't exist any more.

Perhaps the saddest thing about it is that it'll take at least two or three more disasters just like it — unsalved by another dreadful Austin Powers sequel — before the last stitch of emperor's clothes falls off this prick.

His work has appeared in more than thirty publications including: The Three Penny Review, Hobart, Fiction Southeast, Sierra Nevada Review, Apt, OxMag, Prick of the Spindle, Bayou Magazine, Catamaran, and Isthmus.

In reality, this move by Amazon is more of a needle / thorn with which to prick traditional publishing.

Partly because of my graphics background, I probably make the cover artwork more important to my decision than some might, but a solid, arresting cover that pricks my imagination will almost invariably move me to read a sample and then some of the reader reviews.

Herding dogs come under the category of 10 to 20 kilograms weight with ears that are more or less pricked.

If the cat's attention is caught by a noise or a movement, its pricks its ears more upright, maybe swiveling one or both to track the source of the noise.

The tall cowboy smiles on top of the palomino stallion, whose ears are pricked and nostrils flared under a bosal bridle, always searching... Read More

The pain is generally minimal and the damage typically no more than a row of pin pricks.

Yes, we didn't actually need any more evidence that Ramsay was a prick since he chopped of Theon's... er, prick, but that's also exactly why a horrific scene had to happen.

The Wii U price has been slashed more than our editor Gaz's tires (he's a bit of a prick) and isn't selling anywhere near the numbers of PS4 or Xbox One consoles.

In other less lighthearted areas of the installation, more overtly misogynistic words form groupings: «The only thing that could make her more beautiful is my dick in her mouth,» «Three hole wonder,» or «Prick pit.»

Walter Robinson's sly Baron Sinister and Kathe Burkhart's Prick: From the Elizabeth Taylor Series (Suddenly Last Summer) register the facile if immaculate standardization of emotion, while Christopher Wool's distressed untitled stenciling of the words RUN DOG RUN DOG RUN, stacked without spaces, more ominously suggests the illusoriness of mechanized perfection.

The green scraped cactus paddles are striking, with canvas tooth pricking through paint, and the gooey shadows surrounding them are just as good; my arms feel scratched up just looking at them... Perhaps it's obvious to proclaim that each painting is a document of time and space within his experience, but these studious and delectable works seem to ask more from painting than they know how to communicate individually.

For More Pricks Than Kicks, Simon Denny will explore the notion of negation that lies in Beckett's work: indeed, he was asked by the curators to handle the display of the artworks in the exhibition, and, after having accepted this challenge, announced that he «would prefer not to», quoting Bartleby's famous motto (mention source Bartleby as not Beckett).

When the world looks like it's falling apart, though, perhaps ironic detachment will begin to look less like an antidote to chauvinism and more like a banal evil, unequipped to fight the pricks of history.

If the employer was a prick in the manner in which it dismissed an employee, the period of reasonable notice would be extended by a month or more to compensate the employee for «bad faith discharge».

DexCom is already the proud manufacturer of the «only FDA - approved CGM System that lets you make treatment decisions without pricking your finger», so it's probably safe to assume the existing discrete sensor and transmitter combo will lay the foundation for Fitbit's more mainstream - oriented glucose monitoring project.