Sentences with phrase «never measure up to»

I knew I'd never measure up to my own expectations of what I thought «having guests for dinner» meant.

While social media and the beauty industry can give you many reasons to feel like you'll never measure up to the images you see, embrace Teigen's healthy dose of realism, and avoid buying into negative body image for your sake and for the sake of your relationship!

The Qualcomm and Exynos chipsets used in all widely available Android flagships never measure up to Apple's own A-series processors, and that's a big source of the iPhone's smoothness and speed.

The problem here is that despite what you might think, how you might feel, you'll never be good enough because you'll never measure up to other people's lofty standards.

If a child can never measure up to the high standards their parents have for them, why should they even try?

I am not that knowledgeable in cross-training (although as a tri-athlete, I should) and feel that some workouts just never measure up to running, especially in terms of cardio.

We all went through it, and each one of us knows what it was like back in those days to want to be cool, but just never measured up to the cool kids.

Not exact matches

His ability to compute numbers without the aid of a computer or calculator, the skill to measure up a person's character from thousands of miles away, and the rational approach to investment and business may never be found in one person again.

We measure them up against the wall, they're growing by leaps and bounds now, I'll never be able to keep them in jeans.

yes, to die a tragic death on a cross, but He went willingly because He knew that the human race would never measure up no matter how hard we tried.

So these corporations never pay to the measure of any actual racism; they pay to the measure of racism's hyped - up and bloated reputation in the age of white guilt.»

I liked the way I was eating so much more than cooking from «diabetic cookbooks» that favor artificial ingredients and try to make healthier versions of old stand - bys that never quite measure up.

I have never really had trouble with my cake sticking to the pan, but I have talked to others who have, and either way, the parchment is a good back - up measure.

For years I tried to achieve restaurant perfection at home, but my steaks never measured up... until now.

I'll probably make this recipe... I'm craving these, and I don't have time to go up to the mountains to see how my grandma makes them (she never measures or writes anything down).

Unfortunately, even in the optimistic scenario in which Nico Hischier turns out to be Pavel Datsyuk - ian, I don't think Hischier and Hall quite measure up to Crosby and Malkin, never mind the fact the Pens also have Letang and Kessel.

I know you never felt McCall measured up to what you expected but, after all, he did produce more than 3,000 yards career - total offense.»

He loves his pay and will never regret being paid that much for not measuring up to the standard expected of him, he is too greedy for that.

Up front we have a few world - class players surrounded by some serious pretenders... Sanchez is by far the most accomplished player in our attack but the controversy surrounding his contractual mishandling could see him go before the window closes or most definitely by season's end... obviously a mistake by both parties involved, as Sanchez's exploits have never been more on display than in North London, but the club's irresponsible wage structure and lack of real intent have been the real undoing in this mess... Lacazette, who I think has some world - class skills as a front man, will only be as good as the players and system around him, which is troubling due to our current roster and Wenger's love of sideways passing... Walcott should have been sold years ago, enough said, and Welbeck should never have been brought in from the get - go... both of these players have suffered numerous injuries over their respective careers and neither are good enough to overcome such difficulties: not to mention, they both are below average first - touch players, which should be the baseline test for any player coming to a Wenger - led Arsenal team... Perez should have been played wide left or never purchased at all; what a huge waste of time and money, which is ridiculous considering our penny pinching ways and the fact that fans had been clamoring for a real striker for years... finally Giroud, the fact that he stills wears the jersey is a direct indictment of this club's failure to get things right... this isn't necessarily an attack on Giroud because I think he has some highly valued skills, but not for a team that has struggled to take their sideways soccer to the next level, as his presence slows their game even more, combined with our average, at best, finishing skills... far too often those in charge have either settled or chosen half - measures and ultimately it is us that suffer because no matter what happens Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke will always make more money whereas we will always be the ones paying for their mistakes... so every time someone suggests we should just shut - up and support the team just think of all the sacrifices you've made along the way and simply reply... f *** oUp front we have a few world - class players surrounded by some serious pretenders... Sanchez is by far the most accomplished player in our attack but the controversy surrounding his contractual mishandling could see him go before the window closes or most definitely by season's end... obviously a mistake by both parties involved, as Sanchez's exploits have never been more on display than in North London, but the club's irresponsible wage structure and lack of real intent have been the real undoing in this mess... Lacazette, who I think has some world - class skills as a front man, will only be as good as the players and system around him, which is troubling due to our current roster and Wenger's love of sideways passing... Walcott should have been sold years ago, enough said, and Welbeck should never have been brought in from the get - go... both of these players have suffered numerous injuries over their respective careers and neither are good enough to overcome such difficulties: not to mention, they both are below average first - touch players, which should be the baseline test for any player coming to a Wenger - led Arsenal team... Perez should have been played wide left or never purchased at all; what a huge waste of time and money, which is ridiculous considering our penny pinching ways and the fact that fans had been clamoring for a real striker for years... finally Giroud, the fact that he stills wears the jersey is a direct indictment of this club's failure to get things right... this isn't necessarily an attack on Giroud because I think he has some highly valued skills, but not for a team that has struggled to take their sideways soccer to the next level, as his presence slows their game even more, combined with our average, at best, finishing skills... far too often those in charge have either settled or chosen half - measures and ultimately it is us that suffer because no matter what happens Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke will always make more money whereas we will always be the ones paying for their mistakes... so every time someone suggests we should just shut - up and support the team just think of all the sacrifices you've made along the way and simply reply... f *** oup and support the team just think of all the sacrifices you've made along the way and simply reply... f *** off

players like Ozil always present the fans with a bit of a conundrum, especially when times are tough... if you look around the sporting world every once in awhile there emerges a player with incredible skill, like Ozil, Matt Sundin or even Jay Cutler, who have a different way about themselves... their movement seemed almost too lackadaisical, so much so that it seemed to suggest indifference or even disinterest on the part of the player... their posture always appears somewhat mopey and they generally have an unflattering «sour puss» expression on their face... for some their above average skills are enough to keep them squarely in the mix, as their respective teams try desperately to find a way to get the best out of them visa vie player acquisitions or the reworking of tactics... when things go according to planned the fans usually find a way to accept their unique disposition, whereas when things go awry they become easy targets for fans and pundits alike... in the case of Ozil and Sundin, their successes on the international stage and / or with their former teams led many to conclude that if we surrounded such talented individuals with players that have those skills that would most likely bring the best of these players success would surely follow... unfortunately both the Maple Leafs and our club chose to adopt half - measures, as each were being run by corporations who valued profitability over providing the best possible product on the field... for them, they cared more about shirt sales and season tickets than doing whatever was necessary... this isn't, by any stretch, an attempt to absolve Ozil of any responsibility for his failures on the pitch... there is no doubt oftentimes his efforts were underwhelming, to say the least, but this club has been inept when it comes to providing this prolific passer with the kind of players necessary for him to flourish... with our poor man's version of Benzema up front, the headless chickens in Walcott, the younger Ox and Welbeck occupying wide positions far too often and the fact that Carzola, who provided Ozil with great service and more freedom to roam, was never truly replaced, the only real skilled outlet on the pitch was Sanchez... remember to be considered a world - class set - up man goals need to be scored and for much of his time here he has been surrounded by some incredibly inept finishers... in the end, I'm not sure how long he will be in North London, recent sentiments and his present contract situation seem to suggest that he will depart at season's end, but how tragic would it be if once again we didn't put our best foot forward and failed to make those moves that could have brought championship football back to our once beloved club... so when you think about this uniquely skilled player don't be so quick to shift all the blame on his shoulders because he will not be the first or the last highly skilled player to find disappointment at the Emirates if we don't rid the club of those individuals that are truly to blame for our current woes

Nobody in College Station will be surprised if future Texas A&M quarterbacks hailed as «the next Johnny Manziel» amount to a string of mildly electrifying players that never quite measure up to Johnny Football.

Excluding blacks from some of the basics necessary to create what we might consider «normal, healthy» marriages means that their marriages would somehow never measure up.

And it infuriates me to have someone tell me he is going to feel like a failure because he will never measure up.

It's easy to feel overwhelmed by pregnancy nutrition advice and worry that your diet will never measure up.

You don't want to be the person that your child is afraid of because he feels like he will never measure up.

I was introduced to the Bulgarian split - squat (which really hurts all muscles on both legs), the matrix (you can feel the lactic acid like never before,) the speed ladder (leaves you gasping for air) and sprinted up several hundred steps carrying weights for good measure.

But that measure was never brought up for a public hearing or allowed to become law.

Cuomo insisted on Wednesday the blow up over the budget had nothing to do with a scuttled pay raise, denied to lawmakers in December after they failed to coalesce around a package of ethics measures in a special session that never materialized.

Lawmakers came close last year to passing a legalization bill that would have set up an insurance framework for regulating combat - style sports, but the measure never came up for a vote in the Assembly, where sponsors are confident it would pass.

When Clegg has taken up whichever international job it is that he's meant to want and Alexander is running some ghastly lobbying firm in London, no one will much remember «Alarm Clock Britain», the pupil premium (much less its origin) or any other measure that excites the true believers for a few days but they will remember their years of under - employment and unemployment, the lies about tuition fees, the first time they saw ads for private provision in the NHS and, first and foremost, that they should never trust the Liberal Democrats again.

«Conservation is never easy, it always takes sacrifice, but when you make a measure towards conservation you end up giving a great gift to future generations,» Carroll said in a statement.

Solar physicists are pretty sure that the corona's magnetic field is somehow to blame for the heat up (SN Online: 8/16/17), but it's so weak that it has never been measured directly.

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I wondered if one day I might make one myself, knowing it would never quite measure up to the beauty that lay in the folds of cyberspace.

The Co-Founders told us one of their favorite success stories involved a widow who thought she'd never find someone who could measure up to the love of her life and a divorced man who said he didn't want to get married again.

There are bits and bobs that don't measure up — grainy «camera footage», underdeveloped secondary characters — but for a movie equally given to quirks, quacks and quarks, the bumbling never detracts from the charm.

As the evidence mounts that Geoff has never completely moved on from Katya, the focus shifts to Kate and her feelings of never measuring up.

Nintendo's fairly glutted with sidescrolling heroes, though, and I must say that Donkey Kong never quite seemed to measure up to his peers to me.

«You paint a picture of what you want to see, and the reality never measures up,» Cal tells Kelly.

But despite being subsequently afforded considerably - bigger budgets, German director Tom Twyker has never managed to make another movie which measures up to Lola either in terms of intensity or cinematic capture.

One of the worst arguments is that by placing so much emphasis on standardized test scores, children may never grow up to question their standardized credit score as a measure of their worth.

(Calif.) Wealthy supporters of charter schools have never been slow to put up big dollars backing candidates or ballot measures they believe will help the movement.

Time to get a set of wheels for the LB Works Aventador, and even before the first car was being built Kato - san contacted Forgiato to create a custom made set for his Lamborghini, because of the wider fenders these wheels needed some never before seen offset to fill the wheel arches to the brim... up front the 9x20 inch wheels come with a -7 offset while those deeply concave Maglia ECL wheels measure 13x21 inch with a -20 offset... add some Italian made Pirelli P Zero tires in 255 / 30ZR20 and 355 / 25ZR21 respectively and you know you have a winning combination to fill those brutal wheel arches.

The Transformer together with the keyboard never felt light and it will be interesting to see how the Prime measures up here.

It's never a bad idea to measure up your dividend portfolio to make sure it is still aligned with your risk tolerance and investment objectives while markets are still healthy.

His ability to compute numbers without the aid of a computer or calculator, the skill to measure up a person's character from thousands of miles away, and the rational approach to investment and business may never be found in one person again.

The man known to my friends as «Utah Matt» still sends sporadic messages to see what I'm up to, a small gesture but also a measure of care, a reminder of the way heartstrings can stretch thin until they reshape themselves into something else you might never have imagined.

It's up to Batman to get in there and set things straight, but there's also this pesky Catwoman character he's never heard of who shows up to cause trouble and help out in equal measure.

If that weren't enough, through it all you have to bear the anxiety of never quite knowing if you've measured up.

Effectiveness, in a work of art, is never to be measured in terms of honesty or accuracy or up - to - dateness — only by the power of the preserved fiction to put up - to - dateness back into the bruising flow of time.