Sentences with phrase «mostly deaf»

He is mostly deaf (he can hear very loud noises).

He has limited sight and mostly deaf but oozes sweetness!

She's mostly blind, but I think she can make out faint light... and she's mostly deaf, although I contend some of it may be «selective hearing.»

She was such a mess; matted, nails that grew back into her pads, a mass on her chest (turned out to be benign tumors), gaunt, difficulty walking and climbing, mostly deaf, and heartworm negative, Crist - Yoder had had to cut the mats from around her teeth.

She is blind and mostly deaf.

Short gears, side exhaust, concrete suspension, no A / C: I arrive moderately delirious, nearly melted, and mostly deaf.

The lecture falls on mostly deaf ears, but sufficiently inspires one student (Nicholas Hoult) to track down the professor for further conversation.

«The world is mostly deaf,» he says at one point.

I want to not feel sorry for myself that I am young and mostly deaf.

Mostly deaf, kind of clumsy, hazel eyes, pale skin, silly.

She was mostly blind and mostly deaf and would just chill out on the floor for a good part of the day.

Not exact matches

I appreciate your effort but it falls mostly on deaf and dumb ears.

In Ulster, County Comptroller Elliott Auerbach's call for ethics overhaul fell mostly on deaf ears, except that the chairman of the legislature opined that the comptroller might have better things to do.

A few years ago, scientists at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) in Bethesda, Maryland, discovered that being «tune - deaf» is mostly determined by genes.

Yet her warnings fell on deaf ears in the scientific community — much to the public's misfortune — due mostly to the ties between the vegetable oil industry and big - money corporations with their government subsidies.

I try & promote it when I can but get the feeling it falls mostly on deaf ears.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

However, with his past record of mental instability, his complaints fall mostly of deaf ears, including those of Shaw himself, who sympathizes with his plight while also disagreeing with them.

And yet communication in the Abbott family is mostly with sign language, since their pre-teen oldest, Regan (Millicent Simmonds), is deaf.

Climatologist Jack Hall (Quaid, Frequency), one of the main proponents of the coming ice age theory, must try to convince the government that imminent danger is here for all of them, but the warnings fall mostly on deaf ears.

4] and keep repeating the same tone - deaf talking points, mostly just infuriating the skeptics (the enthusiasts are apparently in disbelief that anyone might regard an enterprise driven by two DC associations and backed by federal incentives as anything other than a truly «voluntary» state effort).

But the assertion that Melvoin was Trump - lite mostly fell on deaf ears.

He is mostly white and is deaf except for some random sounds.

Despite being completely deaf and mostly blind, Max was able to get the girl settled and seek help.

Mushu, who was dropped off at a shelter, is 12 years old and is deaf and mostly blind, takes arthritis and thyroid medication, and gets three types of eye ointments every day.

Mostly Winnie does this Ruby is boss, she is deaf and does not bow to Winnie.

Despite being completely deaf and mostly blind, Max was able to get the girl settled... [CLICK TO READ MORE]

I proudly say she is spayed and if «you are looking for a pit bul, go on petfinder.com and find one instead of creating new ones, there are 90, 000 unwanted pit bulls to choose from» Mostly it falls on deaf ears but I say it anyway.

These dogs frequently are mostly white and may also be deaf.

The rumor is that white or mostly white boxers are deaf and untrainable.

Ward, who says he is tone - deaf and has little interest in music or hobbies, is still mostly into «collecting stuff from the streets» in his free time - though he adds that he has recently become fascinated with reading the works of Robert Farris Thompson, a professor at Yale who has written extensively on the art of Africa and its diaspora.

Ward, who says he is tone - deaf and has little interest in music or hobbies, is still mostly into «collecting stuff from the streets» in his free time — though he adds that he has recently become fascinated with reading the works of Robert Farris Thompson, a professor at Yale who has written extensively on the art of Africa and its diaspora.

Vito Schnabel's entry to the fair is Vahakn Arslanian, a deaf, «mostly self - taught» artist who has attended the New School and SVA.

In his 1988 Last Chance to See, Hitchhiker Guide - author Douglas Adams compared the baiji's plight, mostly due to fishing in the Yangtze, to that of «a deaf man in a discotheque»:

mostly i feel that i hate guy when they cant have me cos im deaf..