Sentences with phrase «national pastime»

Losing our innocence every 10 minutes seems to be the new national pastime, and today's New York seems to consist of the rich, the help, the destitute, and a whirlpool of distraction to keep you from noticing.

One of the seeming national pastimes among investors over the past decade has been to lament the performance of Microsoft stock.

This is why all opportunities look like problems to us and we can not solve the simplest problem without resorting to the favourite national pastime of stealing public funds.

Look somewhere between apple pie and Abraham Lincoln on the Americana scale and you'll find our official national pastime: baseball, a game that emphasizes both be-all-you-can-be individual talent and the importance of team spirit.

This week's American Inventor highlighted Michael Osayi, a 53 - year - old call center employee who had developed a version of the beloved national pastime that substituted numerals through nine for variously valued letters and called some legal issues into question.

But although Canada's real national pastime is played on the green, in the tax man's eyes business deals conducted between swings aren't equal to those done at the rink.

The park, Centro Olimpico, is ground zero of the last place in the free world where baseball is the unchallenged national pastime.

Several dozen Juventus supporters targeted Milan forward in the latest manifestation of what may soon be considered Italy's unofficial national pastime: racially abusing black players.

In fact, at the start of the 20th century, Punch magazine described bird feeding as a British national pastime,» says Dr Lewis Spurgin, of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA).

As Opening Day nears, we take a look at green stadiums, the physics of baseball, and other scientific underpinnings of the U.S. national pastime

It's the same spastic - type kids with the same silly jokes, and if there is one big difference between the two films, it's that the second film doesn't have the added benefit of being a nostalgia film extolling the virtue of the grand national pastime, baseball.

Leave it to the very French Citroën club to not just meet, but rendezvous, in Atascadero, California, where there is no shortage of the French national pastime: wine.

In reality, Brussels» public transportation system is cheap, efficient, and reliable (except when they go on strike; another Belgian national pastime.)

Is there another video game in history that went on to become not just a genre - defining work but a bonafide national pastime?

Football had become the predominant national pastime - that is until the year 2032, the year baseball decided to revolutionize the game and regain the throne!Baseball Highlights: 2045...

Case in point: There's a new entry in the annals of our new national pastime — trolling oblivious advice columnists with scenarios pulled from pop culture — joining such highlights as «Dear Prudence Earnestly Addresses Aimee Mann From The «Voices Carry» Video»; «Winnipeg, Canada's Miss...

While closely observing the lives of VIPs has become a favorite national pastime and voyeurism almost an obsession, these images juxtapose familiarity with suspicious ambiguity.

Digital games have become a favourite national pastime.

I know shopping is the official national pastime, but you should avoid it like the plague.

Schultz displayed his own work ethic and leadership capabilities, when he took something as simple as a cup of coffee and turned it into a national pastime.

It was heartening to see their stories preserved and disheartening to know that more major league teams and players weren't contributing more to a national treasure of the national pastime.

While ping - pong is the national pastime of prosperous businesses — a place where employees can bat around balls and ideas — at Power Design, it's a bit more competitive.

For Molson Canadian, it's enough to air a clever commercial about our national pastime:

PBI anticipates serving 2,500 more kids within the next three years, keeping our national pastime alive in Indy.

He instituted austerity measures by reducing spending, raising taxes, (tax evasion is a national pastime), reduced the bloated public sector, etc..

In the age of Occupy Wall Street, remarking on American inequality has become our national pastime.

So far, like past predictions of America's accepting the metric system and adoption of soccer as a national pastime because, after all, all the other countries are doing it, we're still waiting for that to happen.

I wonder how many friends Jesus would have in an overly sensitive culture where ego stroking is a national pastime?

«Looking away has become a national pastime — from the poor, the sick, and the civilians killed by war and drones.

Chastising conservatives has long been a national pastime, but our current situation demands that such misdirected criticism between fellow defenders of «good government» be set aside for larger, more consequential battles.

The state of the national pastime reflects the state of the Union.

Baseball as the national pastime was taken with the utmost seriousness, so that having a team that was best in the region or the state was an exciting proposition — like having an extra portion of the American Dream dished out to your hometown.

I must confess that his comments on the national pastime are becoming, for me, more enjoyable than the game itself.

The last time I played Wiffle Ball, Lyndon Johnson was President, Mickey Mantle was hitting home runs for the Yankees and the game with the plastic bat and ball was strictly for kids, a safe way for parents to introduce future major leaguers to the national pastime.

In Russia, where hockey is the national pastime, the women couldn't begin practicing until three weeks before the Games because of budget constraints.

Calcio — Italian for football — is more than a sport, more than a national pastime.

It wasn't the gambler's money the Sox got, so much as it was the Comiskey dough they didn't get, that enticed them to betray the national pastime and defraud the American faithful.

«It looked like one of Spain's national pastimes,» Cordner Nelson of Track & Field News would write with asperity.

There's never been an examination of the national pastime like the provocative art of Ben Sakoguchi, who has put his own quirky spin on the game's most enduring moments and characters

Mr Commissioner, please don't compromise the integrity of the national pastime for the sake of perceived $ $ $.

Especially, since that's almost always been true, even when baseball was really considered the national pastime.

Baseball was America's last best hope of harbor that summer, the national pastime in a nation eager to make time pass.

But when Sheldon Kennedy, then a Boston Bruins forward, revealed last winter that he had been sexually abused for more than a decade by Graham James, his coach on junior teams in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, the innocence of a national pastime was forever lost.

Find all things baseball amongst its 38,000 artifacts while learning about the history of our national pastime and about the legends who made a tremendous impact on the sport.

Congressman Pete King (R - Seaford) issued a statement condemning the fees, saying: «At a time when the cost of travel teams is prohibitive for so many families and taxes are too high for everyone, it is unconscionable for the County to be imposing fees which will prevent so many young kids from having the opportunity to play our National Pastime.»