Sentences with phrase «of brushing it off»

After years of brushing off warnings about the danger of runaway house prices in Canada's hottest markets, the banks are waking up to the risks

«[They think] «Oh, it's hormones,» and they kind of brush it off.

I kind of brushed it off, though every once in a while I would post some more fashion - focused material on my personal Instagram account.

I sort of brushed it off and continued to binge on Broadway.

People are more likely to listen to what a man has to say instead of brushing it off as crazy.

Mutual silence is the gentlemans way of brushing off your date, and only the most churlish and amateur of daters would pursue after a total nightmare of a date.

«Any one - off effect, the amount and payment is relatively small and you can sort of brush it all off.

Instead of brushing me off, they called in psychiatrists and social workers.

Successful couples in this study were giving of their time and attention, with one partner frequently «turning toward» the other emotionally instead of brushing them off.

If either of you brush off or demean your partner's desire for help, you will multiply your problems.

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The toothbrush handle has an easily accessed on / off button, and the brush vibrates gently every 30 seconds to let you know it's time to move on to the next quadrant of your mouth.

We can thank Susan J. Fowler, whose blog post kicked off Uber's year of reckoning, and Ellen Pao, whose trial forced the Valley to stop brushing off conversations about its gender problem as unnecessary distractions.

I called today a victory because both of my kids brushed their teeth the first time I asked and haven't killed each other yet on this, the fifth day of their week off from school.

In December, the first document the Department of Justice (which is representing the SEC) issued in response to Robbins Geller's complaint seemed like a brush - off.

Tillerson continued to insist his relationship with the president was solid and brushed off rumors of strain between them.

A lot of supercars can brush that off in less than 4 seconds, on their way to top speeds that threaten or exceed 200 mph.

Delta Air Lines» CEO brushed off a U.S. ruling calling for tariffs on its order of 75 C - Series jets following a complaint from rival Boeing.

Specifically, they viewed their results in the context of efficiency, noting that those who brushed off conversation were trying to make the most of their time.

At least some of the senators interpreted MacManus's response as a brush - off signaling that their request and oversight in general wasn't welcome.

It's tempting to brush off the potential consequences of another sequester.

In the latest episode of Uber's brush with the California DMV, the company announced that it is shipping to Arizona the 16 self - driving cars it pulled off the streets of San Francisco.

According to a report this week in tech news outlet The Information, when asked by some of his 11,000 employees Kalanick has brushed off questions about diversity in hiring and whether Uber could share demographic data about its workforce.

U.S. stocks advanced briskly on Tuesday, with the major indexes nearly reversing yesterday's massive slump as investors brushed off geopolitical risks ahead of corporate earnings season...

(Side note: There are still major brush fires, of course, such as a court hearing today in Delaware, where Kalanick is fending off a continuing lawsuit from one of Uber's biggest investors, Benchmark.)

Pressing the brush down and lathering with hard circular motions will cause the bristles to twist, especially in the center core of the knot, and run a high risk of breaking off.

The stock market sold off a little on the news, but came back to record a nearly 300 point gain on the Dow, brushing off any fears of disaster.

Prime Minister Harper brushed off the official recession as «a couple of weak months.»

Meadows, of course, brushes off the idea: «The president instructs me more than me instructing the president,» he said.

I wave the water out of the brush, blow off the razor and it sits on a shelf up high to dry.

But he brushed off these concerns with a range of arguments that critical masses of voters evidently found persuasive.

The FTSE 100 advanced by 191.8 points, or 3 %, ending the day at 6421.7 after the Bank of England announced that it would not be altering the 0.5 % interest rate and brushed off claims that a rise in interest rates More...

Markets steadied Monday at the start of action - packed week that could set the tone for the rest of the summer, brushing off earlier weakness prompted by a big retreat in Japanese shares in the wake of renewed yen buying.

European markets brushed off earlier weakness in Asia at the start of an action - packed week that could set the tone for the rest of the summer.

How many times did we see pictures of President Bush cutting brush, golfing, making a speech or just getting on / off of Marine One on his way someplace?

In fact, Scripture says not to parade around with a «fasting face,» so it's actually better to brush them off upon leaving so as to avoid the appearance of self - righteousness in front of the world.

The plot of the video in relation to the song is difficult to pinpoint, but Bridges sings «I don't worry, don't worry, don't worry about people in my face / I hit»em with the style and grace, and watch their ankles break,» as he brushes off haters, and Elsessner appears to do the same.

Blessed are us who thirst with those who are parched for a glass of clean water and who hunger with those who crave crumbs from our brushed off tables, for our God is Emmanuel, God with us, and withness breaks brokenness, and being with the broken in the world begins to breaks the brokenness of the world.

«A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil?

I will see myself singing the words of the Psalms into my babies» hair, I'll see how we touched each of them, rubbing their backs, brushing their hair off their foreheads, holding their hands, loving them is just as much a part of our worship as anything else.

You need to get off your couch, brush the potato chips off your chest, lay off beating your wife for 5 minutes, and try getting at least a hundred yards or more outside the front door of your trailer and see a bit of the world.

It is so easy to brush off these opportunities, but we have discovered that listening to people when they want to share is one of the best ways to get to know them and build relationships with them.

When I start to feel tension with another person, I'll usually crack a joke and attempt to brush it off with friendly banter and a total lack of acknowledgment.

Threatening phone calls had become a daily routine in the weeks of the protests, and King had tried to brush them off at first.

What is intolerable is the kind of brush - off that defenders of Heidegger, such as Walter Biemel in his biography (Martin Heidegger, Harcourt, Brace, 1976), give the question at hand.

@Truth and Facts In other words, you can not back up your claim, so you will ignore the question in favor of a smart - a $ $ remark in a feeble attempt to brush it off.

As if anticipating an objection, Miss Mac Donald brushes aside the old argument that atheists are simply living off the spiritual capital of a distinctive Jewish and Christian civilization.

There are plenty of excuses for why we don't care and hastily brush politics off as irrelevant, but it's time we give ourselves a kick in the pants and figure out why we should get informed and involved.

Every now and then I thought it might be dangerous and I would get a bit frightened, but the mediums would brush it off by saying: «It's a hazard of the job.

And by disbelief I do not mean some sort of brave rejection of the doctrine, some defiant demand flung at heaven for possession of one's own soul; I mean merely the impotence of an imagination that finds the very notion of sin incomprehensible, the conscience of a man who is sure that, whatever sin might be, it surely lies lightly upon a soul as decent as his own, and can be brushed off with a single casual stroke of a primly gloved hand; I mean an habitual insensibility to the illuminations and chastisements of beauty, a condition of being wholly at home in a world from which mystery and sin and glory have all been banished, and in which spiritual wretchedness has become material contentment.

The fact that no matter how often people ask you to provide evidence for your claims, and you just brush it off everytime and go on with your unfounded assertions of idiocy shows how truly useless you are, even to your own cause.