Sentences with phrase «nose at people»

«#amwriting» is thumbing your nose at the people who tell you to quit, to give up on your dream and do something more practical.

The Evoque snubs its nose at these people by providing Land Rover off - road capability in a package that is perfectly suited to highways, byways, and city streets.

I want to tackle the spectacle of a mandate-less political defection, where an MP can freely join another party whilst simultaneously thumbing their nose at the people who elected them, when they stood on another party's manifesto.

Before having children I used to down my nose at people who used bribery to either keep their kids in line or get them to do what they wanted them to do.

We look down out modern noses at the people of the past and think that they were ignorant fools who knew nothing of God and His ways, but we, with all our research and writing, we now know better.

It's a time when many are planning strong push - back activities against Rahm Emanuel and other autocrats who are listening only to their rich friends while thumbing their noses at the people who actually use the public schools, at solid education research, and ultimately at the mostly poor, mostly black and brown children whom they claim to love so much.

It really amazes me how much the more hardcore gaming community look down their noses at people who like CoD.

While I use and love a lot of Apple products, it'd be really nice if Apple executives stopped looking down their noses at people who choose other brands for whatever the reason.

Not exact matches

The question is if people buy into the idea that (1) smartphones really do harm their ability to take in the world (or, at least, are more «harmful» than «entertaining»), and (2) that they don't have the willpower to keep their noses out of their notifications, and thus need a phone that is designed to preempt most apps altogether.

«They thumbed their nose at other people,» says Caldwell.

Though some people initially turn their nose up at its newbie centric design tools — ie.

«People don't turn up their nose at a smoker,» Sizemore says.

But because all of this is at a rather nebulous level of experience, it seems to many people to be either wishful, romantic thinking or weak by comparison with the tough, pragmatic, hard - nosed realism of action.

I see an awful lot more of people thumbing their noses at the «stupid white people» than I see white people giving grief to blacks and mexicans.

@Rachel: Since this campaign is aimed at people who do the things you say you don't, people who wear their religion on their sleeve, poke their noses in where it doesn't belong, try to legislate fundamentalist ideas, and generally want to make the world conform to their ideas no matter how horrible, I have to ask... Why do you care?

if you want to stick your pious nose up in the air and call consentual s - e-x between unmarried people a sin, have at it.

Most people try to make themselves feel better by criticizing and looking down their noses at others.

We tend to look down our noses at these ancient people with their purity codes regulating everything from the fibers in their clothes to the people they touched.

To label someone a «sinner» reveals an «us vs. them» mentality, where you are the «righteous» person looking down your nose at the poor, wretched, ignorant «sinners» down below who just can not get their act together.

I think we can have a Mosque or Islamic center at ground zero when we can build a Christian church in Mecca or when Mullahs issue a fatwa against the Taliban for murdering a pregnant women for «adultery» or killing doctors trying to help the Afgan people or for cutting the ears and nose off a young 13 year old girl for trying to run away from an abusive «husband».

I was raised that my religious beliefs are mine and mine alone, and my right to practice as it applies to other people ends exactly at the tip of my nose.

Our tacit (or non-explicit) knowledge indwells the countless individual features of the other person's visage, such as the nose, eyes, eyebrows, mouth, texture of skin, and all the subtle attitudes assumed by the face depending on the person's mood at any particular time.

I grew up with brussel sprouts too — loved»em, as do my parents and sisters — and we could always tell who had zero chance of fitting into the family if that person turned up the nose at brussel sprouts.

I know that some people look down their noses at canned beans: maybe they don't taste or feel quite the same as perfectly cooked - from - dried beans, and they can be higher in salt, and then there's the specter of BPA in the can lining.

Not that none of these restaurants had good veggie side dishes (I know they did because most of the time those were the only things on the menu I could eat), but cauliflower wasn't really cool back then and I'm sure most people probably would've turned my nose up at cauliflower anything.

Many people will turn their noses up at what I've just said but cooking is so intimidating for so many cooks, I don't think those of us who know how should feel entitled to bash the solutions of the less enthusiastic.

I do realize though, that with some unusual ingredients like almond meal, raw hemp seeds, flax seed meal, and nutritional yeast (along with eggs, cottage, Parmesan, and green onions) some people are going to turn their nose up at this combination.

It wasn't that long ago when most people turned up their noses at the prospect of an appetizer or side dish of Brussels sprouts.

Additionally, Rozin has found that it is not uncommon for people to like the body's defensive responses, such as the nose and eye tearing that result from eating hot peppers; and he says that people often eat chile at a heat level close to the highest they can tolerate, which means that liking chile is related to pushing the limits of pain and tolerance.

The only person who will be turning up their nose at this practice is perhaps your mother - in - law, who will only be peeved that she didn't have such a cheap and easy option in her day.

And I thought if I could just reach the stage of parenting when I could actually get a full night's sleep, and maybe a little time to exercise and / or meditate without a tiny person sticking her fingers up my nose, I could handle any emotional challenge my kids could throw at me.

They turn their noses up at young people who take the occupational route, rather than the academic one.

With those at the top claiming the reliefs, enjoying the allowances, hiring other people to find the loopholes, while everyone else pays through the nose.

We need to move towards a means of electing our MPs where all voices are heard and where people don't feel forced to hold their nose at the ballot box.

It would be great if people didn't turn their noses up so much at vocational training or apprenticeships.

«Bill Thompson will be a mayor who never thumbs his nose at the will of the people,» Liu said.

After the initial culture shock, and getting used to the idea that I also had the largest nose in Chiba (I suppose that is why people stared at me), working in Japan was a little strange at first.

As reported in ACS Nano, researchers have developed a bioelectronic «nose» that can specifically detect a key decay compound at low levels, enabling people to potentially take action before the stink spreads.

Her team scanned 12 people's brains while they looked at hundreds of images of noses, eyes, mouths and other facial features and recorded which bits of the brain became active.

Martin Kriegel at Yale University and his colleagues looked at bacteria from the skin, nose and guts of people with and without lupus, and found that they make proteins similar to Ro60.

Anna said: «We've found that they tend to look at faces in a slightly different way — whereas people normally look mostly at the eyes and then the nose and mouth, super-recognizers really tend to look in the middle of the face.»

Peschel and bacteriologist Bernhard Krismer, also at the University of Tübingen, started out investigating why roughly every third person carries a bacterium called Staphylococcus aureus in their nose.

Sheldon Cohen and colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, reviewed three studies in which researchers put either a flu virus or a rhinovirus, which causes colds, into people's noses, then tracked who fell ill.

«You look at people in the eyes, but the nose is right in the middle of the eyes, so there's no avoiding it,» Tanner said.

People typically turn up their noses at Brussels sprouts.

Limonene, a zesty compound in lime and other citrus fruits, gives many people watery eyes and a burning sensation in the nose, according to James Wedner, MD, chief of allergy and immunology at the Washington University School of Medicine.

Have no fear, home - made; haven't you seen the way some people curl their noses up at the mere mention of fermented milk?

Many people turn their nose up at foods that are healthy for them.

BB is such a devastating socially debilitating condition that at times when people hold their nose you are not 100 % sure if its you who is the cause.

If we look back at the diets of traditional people who retained strong, flexible bones throughout long and productive lives, it's apparent the answer lies in «nose to tail» eating with variety of nourishing real foods.