Sentences with phrase «of busybodies»

There are tons of busybodies out there dictating rules to everyone else.

People worried about a mother feeding her child fall into a special group of busybodies

She's sinfully funny as Betty, the kind of busybodied, perpetually boozy neighbor who talks everyone's ear off and never thinks it's too early to have a cocktail.

(This is, after all, an author who, in his 1997 novel Mason and Dixon, managed to compose a genuinely profound hymn to the historical «arts of the quidnunc» — i.e., of the busybody — that doubled as an elaborate, ironic parody of a long - defunct literary style's attempts at profundity.)

Not exact matches

For we hear that some of you are living in idleness, mere busybodies.

«For we hear that some of you are living in idleness, mere busybodies, not doing any work.

And may no noise - making busybody interfere to snatch me out of my carefree content as the author of a little piece, or prevent a kind and benevolent reader from examining it at his leisure, to see if it contains anything that he can use.

Maybe it's just my busybody nature, but I found the glorious break offered to me in maternity leave to be a shame spiral of boredom.

Nursing moms have a right to feed their children anywhere they and their children are allowed to be, and they don't need to cover up or feed in a nasty public bathroom just to spare busybodies the trouble of keeping their eyes on their own affairs.

The busybodies who go out of their way to tell you that breastfeeding your toddler just isn't the right way to parent will often tout that the benefits accompanying breastfeeding an infant disappear once the child has transitioned into toddlerhood.

Battling the interference of 658 MPs, plus Peers, press and Royalty; coaxing and soothing his collaborator Pugin; fending of the mad schemes of a host of crackpot inventors, including Dr Reid and his Ventilator, and assaults from the egos of countless busybodies intent on destroying his reputation and coming in three times over budget and 17 years behind schedule, Barry eventually succeeded — after countless setbacks and rows which contributed to his death in 1860.

Justice Olatoregun held, «It appears to me that the interested party (Union Bank) is a busybody, who is crying more than the bereaved, having transferred all its rights on the property, the subject matter of this suit.

The government is hiking the costs of the process so much that most people simply won't be able to afford to mount a legal challenge against the executive - whether that's a government minister, your local council, or any other public sector area where busybody officials look to take shortcuts.

«This is a special place where it's a wonderful slice of New York and you have yentas, bochinches, y mas yentas,» Schneiderman said, using the Yiddish and Spanish slang for busybodies.

He saw stupidity everywhere, from the gossip of middle - class busybodies to the lectures of academics.

Versatile and ubiquitous, G - protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the busybodies of eukaryotic signaling.

There are some nicely played laughs at the story's outset, as Wilson's Henry moves into a new house and tries to fend off busybodies: his over-eager real estate agent (Cheryl Hines) and his enthusiastically intrusive next - door neighbor Esperanza Martinez (Adriana Barraza of Babel), who arrives with homemade tamales and a lot of questions.

His mother Loretta (Jennifer Lewis) is still a busybody, yet neither Michael nor his bride - to - be tries to stand up to her — until, of course, the screenplay needs to cleanly resolve all its conflicts.

And backing them up is one of the all - time great Hollywood supporting casts: Claude Rains as the suave and lecherous Vichy police head Renault; Conrad Veidt as the elegant, murderous Nazi commander Strasser; Sydney Greenstreet as the vaguely sinister rival cabaret owner; Peter Lorre as Ugati, the rat with the papers; S. Z. «Cuddles» Sakall as the lovable fat busybody; Marcel Dalio as the nimble croupier; Curt Bois as the ferret - like pickpocket («Vultures everywhere!»)

His Punch - Drunk Love is a fabulous deconstruction of the genre, a glimpse into a world in which the tics of the romcom that we chuckle at — casual violence, henpecking from busybody relatives — are made terrifyingly real.

Esperanza (Adrianna Barraza) is the local busybody and in essence, the glue that binds this little patch of divergent neighbors together.

Standing in his way, however, is the dictating busybody Kangaroo (Carol Burnett), who feels Horton's ramblings could upset the balance of the jungle and lead to anarchy.

In Brown's telling, teachers and schools have been descended upon by an army of «little busybodies to run down the halls and chide the teachers,» he told CALmatters, dispatched from Sacramento or, worse, D.C.

One day, after three years of submitting my first manuscript and receiving multiple rejections, I was told by the children's book editor at Morrow Junior Books that the company was going to publish my book Busybody Nora.

Then some crazy - ass idiot over at Publishing Perspectives argues that the judge was a busybody for adjudicating based on law and legal precedent instead of storytelling logic:

Forming an unexpected bond, their friendship quickly grows into passion, much to the disapproval of the town's busybody.

[Lewis Denby is editor of Resolution Magazine and general freelance busybody for anyone that'll have him.

This tangled triangle of unelected busybodies claims to have the interests of the planet and the countryside at heart, but it is increasingly clear that it is focusing on the wrong issues and doing real harm while profiting handsomely.

Or if you just have busybody neighbors, like in the case of Adam Guerrero's teaching garden in Tennessee.

A ubiquitous fixture on the US legal media scene, White and his team have had to fend off an onslaught from harassed law firm marketing directors creaking under the weight of a growing pile of surveys, as well as bar association busybodies who took umbrage at the company's methodology.

Private standing has traditionally been viewed as the best way to operate our justice system because: it prevents mere «busybodies» from using up scarce judicial resources; it ensures contending points of view are raised by those personally invested in the case; and it preserves the proper role of courts and their relationship to the other branches of government.