Sentences with phrase «not niceties»

It's oft said that women like assholes, but I think that's not fair, however masculinity and confidence seem to be the key characteristics not niceties...

Without reconciliation — real reconciliation, not the niceties or warm momentary feelings or platitudes or head - pats of false reconciliation that makes us feel better without ever really changing anyone — we are missing something deeply important about Easter.

Good headering ability should be a prerequisite for a CB, not a nicety.

District - charter collaboration is a necessity, not a nicety.

CRPE Director Robin Lake calls charter - district cooperation «a necessity, not a nicety,» and that truth is borne out in Camden.

In cities with sizeable charter school student populations, cross-sector policy coordination is a necessity, not a nicety.

Ensuring that employees understand that scratchers are a necessity and not a nicety for cats, and that they can explain that idea to shoppers clearly, is important.

Not exact matches

It's pretty clear, he argues that if you can't fairly rapidly achieve mass consumer pricing, your EON (Economy of Now) business on its best days will be a niche nicety for the folks with more money than time or brains and never break out of that box.

So, thanking folks isn't just a social nicety.

You don't want to talk to them, and when given the opportunity, you will go out of your way to avoid the awkward, culturally expected niceties.

Having left behind the securities and niceties of civilization, they had not totally forgotten a concern for their fellow men in the wilderness.

People were not interested in social niceties but in survival.

There is a limit to how far it will be useful to pursue the niceties of «structured» versus «corpuscular» versus «personal societies,» but it will help to recall the context in which Whitehead observes (not unlike Earley) that there can be many ways in which Nature coordinates these societies such that they can persist over time.

Is it not time to acknowledge that contributing to human flourishing, exemplifying Christ as the telos of humanity, is not just a humanistic nicety, but constitutive of the very gospel we proclaim?

The tyranny of which I am speaking is not lessened by niceties of designation.

This is not just a logical nicety but an important protection of the freedom of association — a freedom that has been safeguarded in decisions like NAACP v. Alabama (357 U.S. 449, 1958), which held that a state may not compel a voluntary association of citizens to turn over its list of members because that might subject them to governmental penalties.

The joy of talking about Peirce and Whitehead with Charles off and on during these intervening years has never ceased, even when we have not been able to see eye to eye about some niceties of detail.

We concluded (not incorrectly) that in many cases what had masqueraded as Christian teaching during our young lives was really nothing of the sort, but only Republican Party politics, outdated social niceties, and occasional bigotry standing in for reason where legitimate authority was in short supply.

Though the Western myth is that the Catholic Church in the Third World is retarding public health measures for the sake of a theological nicety, that is certainly not the case on this continent.

A proof I incline to prefer is given by von Wright, who does not mention the other proofs.1 In sum, apart from logical niceties, the argument is: a thing can not have contradictory predicates at one and the same time; but, if change is continuous, no time can be found, unless an absolute instant, in which a process is not both p and not - p for some predicate.

Because when you've been embezzled from multiple times the niceties don't seem that important.

While if you come at me with a fist, I'm not (usually) justified in pulling out a gun and shooting you or using some other deadly weapon, nor am I justified in continuing to pummel you after I've neutralized the threat... but I'm not required to gauge to a nicety in a split second how «hard» I hit you in order to maintain an exact «proportionality» of response.

Not all people could / can talk niceties for too long, I honestly believe that some would just nit pick so to have a go rather than being overly flattering.

Wenger knows he ain't hanging around for much longer and he is probably dispensing with some of the patience and niceties he has displayed earlier in his life as manager at Arsenal.

I'm not mouthing passive - aggressive niceties to a tyrant toddler hoping he'll spare me the embarrassment of showing how really fucking hard parenting can be.

If every mealtime becomes a struggle to get the grandkids to eat, there won't be an opportunity to emphasize those other niceties dear to grandparents» hearts, such as manners and good dinner conversation.

That's exactly why I posted, to explain from the point of view of someone who really wants to go with a homebirth for all the things I could avoid with it, but also as someone who hasn't been actually convinced by those niceties that it's safer.

I do not believe in forcing or shaming children into reciting social niceties when they don't mean them, (1) but I can appreciate that children who practice those niceties can find it easier to function among peers and adults.

These prediction intervals are not just niceties but need to be taken seriously.

Throughout the book, Meursault refuses to adhere to social norms such as «white lies», he can not «play the game» of social niceties or cover - ups and, most provocatively, can not engage emotively with those around him, responding passively to key events such as his mother's death, and disregarding the feelings of his girlfriend.

Even now, with Ms. Clinton marching ever closer to the Democratic nomination, Mr. de Blasio can't resist uttering niceties about her democratic socialist rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

The problem for the Labour leader is that voters, in so far as they are following the Falkirk story at all, won't grasp the niceties: all they'll see is that Miliband said something was badly wrong in Falkirk... and that Labour has now told the world to move on - as far as Falkirk is concerned - and that there's nothing to see.

When a Prime Minister is on the way out, he or she doesn't have to bother with the niceties.

When LaCorte finished exchanging niceties with his foe, he made a blunder that won't soon be forgotten.

But others admit they still don't bother with such niceties.

Krystyna: Do not forget that the English language for Russian and Ukrainian women is a foreign language, that means they do can not know all the possible niceties of the English language.

For an adult «date» has same meaning as the youth but it is not restricted to fun and holding hands and mumbling few niceties before the farewell.

This means even after carrying this notorious image, people on Tinder don't drop their niceties while interacting on App.

You'll meet many gentlemen here, they're all good at «vanity project», well, which also part of social skills, how close you stand to someone you are talking to, how you act when you two meet or part, and all the niceties of dinner party conversation... But don't assume they are hard to get, you just talking and acting like a socialite, making some eye contact with men, they may give you a clue that where you can go after the party, then further communicate with you.

It's fast - paced and full of gaudy action, yet it's thoroughly unsatisfying, largely because it's so lazy: once Stallone (also the screenwriter) and director George Pan Cosmatos have sketched out the standard genre archetypes, they leave it at that, not bothering to fill in the niceties of characterization, plausibility, motivation, and suspense.

There isn't much time spent on niceties before the barbs start flying.

A film can be vile, it can be upsetting and unpleasant — nicety is not required of great cinema (or even good cinema).

Simmons believes that niceties and encouragement simply aren't enough to inspire the passion necessary to become a great musician.

There are so many other niceties that there isn't room to mention them all here, but you didn't forget a thing.

Playtime, downtime, and family time aren't just extras or niceties; they're closely connected with building crucial life skills that kids need to thrive.

Setting aside niceties of constitutional propriety, the salient point is that because Washington doesn't run America's schools, all it can do is pen rules for schools, which yields ham - handed directives and compliance - inducing bureaucracy.

They don't pass by each other in the hallways and make niceties.

Our tester was not outfitted with 4Matic all - wheel drive, but it did have niceties including an air suspension, bumping Burmester sound system, heated and cooled front seats, and, courtesy of the $ 10,400 Premium 3 Package, massaging seats, adaptive cruise control, lane change assist, and parking assist.

and the next raft of «new» cars aren't actually going to be new under all the niceties.

The Verdict In the end, we weren't fooled by the Corolla's niceties.