Sentences with phrase «much small talk»

The verdict from intriguing new research is in and the results couldn't be clearer — too much small talk puts a serious dent in your well - being.

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Small - business owners often spend too much time talking about the story behind their product and the difficulties they went through developing their business rather than homing in on their milestones and achievements.

You love seasonal cheer and a good networking opportunity as much as the next person, but all that small talk can be about as appealing as getting a root canal for Christmas.

«If a job is much smaller or way bigger than you were told, or if you're waiting on someone else to move or a restructure to happen, talk to whoever hired you,» says Larter.

But I'm not much for small talk around the office; I just do my best to smile and grunt «hello» at people when I arrive in the morning.

CMIT Solutions» cloud computing services, available now to small businesses, save time, money Everyone in IT these days is talking about cloud computing: how to harness it, how much it costs, whether -LSB-...]

By contrast, when I attended a gathering of pastors from much smaller churches, nickel - and - dime operations with meager attendance on Sundays, barely able to support their pastors, I did not hear the pastors talk about improving their facilities or putting together a smoother operation for Jesus.

Most atheists consider atheism a small part of their lives and don't talk about it or think about it much.

for mother's day, our family pastor gave the sermon on sunday along with small portions by the kids minister and jr high / high school / college pastor, and this is pretty much what the latter talked about.

So, as a parent myself now for more than 18 years, I've allowed my kids to eat sweets so that they don't feel deprived but talked about limits and the effects of eating too much «less than quality food» — but that a small amount also be fine occasionally in the context of an overall healthy lifestyle.

On his way home from Ann Arbor, he talked in the car about baseball, about how much he wanted to bring a minor league team to Fort Wayne, about business ventures he wants to get into and about how wonderful it is to be free again and how a man can take for granted all the small, surpassing pleasures in life until prison takes them away.

Brendan: Eh, I think it gets a bit tiresome and we end up always talking waaaay too much about the course each and every day, and that's a quick way to get into niche stuff and turn off everyone but the already committed (and smaller) l golf audience.

@strontium Since I always try to default to F1 and FIA people being pretty smart and pretty professional, once you remove all the negative armchair fan rhetoric that is, I would suggest that the reason the fins are just reduced and the t bars are gone but for a much smaller lower gearbox wing according to Lowe, is that going by what Brawn has talked about they don't want to make knee - jerk decisions that will only continue to help the bigger teams who have the resources to adapt more quickly, and harm the lesser teams that can not.

I am often tempted to invest in Neymar even now, and other similarly priced players on the Index such as Sanchez, Kane and Messi, but always talk myself out of it because the current share price presents too much of a risk and, as I don't have thousands of pounds to invest, I would only be able to buy a relatively small number of shares.

But it took away so much pressure knowing that I didn't have to look presentable or make small talk.

Her eyes got big and she started talking about other pregnant ladies on island and how one in particular is much smaller than me.

This isn't something that will be answered once and never again, as with so much in parenting, addressing the topic in small pieces multiple times over the years is a great way to educate your children as opposed to having one «big talk.»

As Wilson held talks with a conveniently much smaller EU he needed the most modest of outcomes and that is what he got.

From talking with various conservative friends and colleagues, the Right - side equivalent seems to involve a mix of smaller online communities (like RedState), ads on sites like Drudge, and «list swaps» or «list rentals» (i.e., buying the opportunity to contact the members of a conservative email list, a la Newt Gingrich's much - abused supporters).

«I think we need to cut the soundbites and really talk more about small business, about entrepreneurialism, about people's aspirations there, because... the general election will be very much about the economy and as a party we need to get onto the front - foot talking about how we can support some small businesses, not least because they are the backbone of the return to the successful economy.»

The event took place in a small suite at the Roosevelt Hotel, just down the hall from the annual Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty breakfast — a must - attend event for local politicians to demonstrate their support for the Jewish community — and it took place just an hour before the annual Israel Day Parade... Neither Schumer nor Silver nor Nadler so much as mentioned Israel, though there were a couple of Orthodox supporters conspicuously positioned behind the speakers... Silver, who is now a constituent of hers, called Velazquez his «newly acquired» congresswoman, and mostly talked about her work for federal housing money and on behalf of small businesses.

You can make it move and talk, rotate and fire small darts from its chest, and much more.

People in small towns resent having it characterized as racism — and also, there's so much racism in our cities, so rural folks say: What are you talking about?

Needless to say, all this talk of «Earth - sized» worlds (and the much - hyped «Earth - like» misnomer) has added fuel to the extraterrestrial life question: If there's a preponderance of small exoplanets - some of which orbit within the «sweet - spot» of the habitable zones of their parent stars - could life as we know it (or Earth - Brand ™ Life as I like to call it) also be thriving there?

If several thousand new building blocks become commercially available, it may not be too much of an exaggeration to talk about 3D printing of small molecules.

Celebrity routines don't really differ that much unless we are talking about serious weight loss and getting a shredded look or packing on slabs of meat into a small time frame.

People who jiggle their legs, talk with their hands, and incorporate small movements into their day can burn as much as 350 extra calories daily, according to research from the Mayo Clinic.

To clarify, when we talk about how much damage sugar does to your body, we're NOT talking about tiny amounts such as having 5 grams of sugar from a teaspoon of honey in your tea... Small amounts of natural sugar like that are not a problem.

In this episode, we're going to talk about a common issue called Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO), how peppermint is good for bloating, how medications, stress, and oral hygiene can impact your gut health, and so much more!

Besides which, we're talking about very small differences in risk, regardless of how much salt we eat.

Once you have developed relationships with these people (even if it is just to say hello and create small talk) they will seem much less intimidating and you may even find yourself a nice workout partner.

And the second being, people that rest too much, take a million selfies and ruin other people's workouts (with small talk).

This MD in Australia talks about cholesterol and the fact that the way it is tested today is incomplete and does not tell the whole story when you just look at A1c, LDL, HDL, and Triglycerides, this diet raises your cholesterol but there is a small dense LDL that is not accepted by the liver for servicing but rejected and ends up in your arteries as plaque... and this is what needs to be included in a Lipid panel because this diet pre-diet shows a lipid panel that is not to bad but when you look at the SDLDL it is at 20 which is very high, and when on this diet for 6 or more weeks your lipid panel is higher but the SDLDL is 0 Zero... so your doctor flips out and yells at you but in fact you are much less prone to heart failure...

It was a little depressing for a while because I thought so much of how small we are but Neil De Grass Tyson talks about this in the end so it is definitely worth it.

Some people become really good at being «pick - up artists» or flirting like pros, while others are much more uncomfortable with the idea of making small talk or trying to be charming with a total stranger.

Have you ever felt socially awkward and made small talk with a person that didn't make much sense?

The fact that much of the small talks are eliminated and bikers can get on with the business of getting to know people straight away is the major reason why more and more bikers seek their match online.

So much of each show is giggling over small talk, all injected by Jim Rash, the host.

Conversations about major big budget genre filmmakers of the 70s and 80s tend to center around Lucas and Spielberg, with Kubrick usually thrown into the mix, but John Carpenter deserves a spot in those talks too, even if he typically worked with a much smaller budget than those guys.

Many people have been wondering just how the film came to be, and an extended featurette has made its way online with Moore talking about the inception of the idea, some of the difficulties he and his extremely small crew had completing the film, and much more.

Playing a robot, Schwarzenegger doesn't engage much in small talk, and while this has been the pattern for all «Terminator» movies, «Terminator Genisys» is still at its best when Schwarzenegger is on screen, even if he's only staring down people or looking at them quizzically.

But it is a much subtler scene, at the beginning of the film, that really showcases his talents, as he cycles between bafflement and eagerness to please while trying to make small talk with his girlfriend's parents.

Besides talking about working with Jason Reitman and making Men, Women & Children, we talked about his career, the way he likes to work, playing a small but key role in Paul Verhoeven's Total Recall, Breaking Bad, his thoughts on Better Call Saul and if he'd like to cameo on it, getting to work with Christopher Plummer on Atom Egoyan's Remember, and so much more.

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This is a great way to include key stakeholders in your classroom, whether it be reading to a small group, preparing crafts, talk about a career and so much more!

Fouts was finding that, indeed, superintendent support is seldom enough and that superintendents are much better at talking as if they were in favor of small schools than at taking steps to make them possible.

Mr. Broad is not much for small talk, but then he has a lot he wants to accomplish.

«In pretty much all these cases, we're talking about small schools,» Gill said.

But he also talks about the benefits of working in a small district, and how much progress he believes has been made.

Krish Mohip, CEO of Ohio's much smaller, 5,400 - student Youngstown City School District, talked about his experience improving failing schools and promised to push Boulder Valley.