Sentences with phrase «of ignoring the elephant in the room»

Instead of ignoring the elephant in the room — which will only make the other party resentful — Kovary recommends acknowledging that you know they wanted the job, explaining in a non-defensive way why you're qualified to fill the position and stressing your hope you can work together.

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The elephant in the room everyone's been so busy ignoring is suddenly the main topic of conversation.

Rep. Kathleen Rice said Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017, that House Democrats in Washington, D.C., were ignoring the «elephant in the room» — allegations of sexual harassment.

Rae Kramer, a resident of Syracuse, called schools the «elephant in the room» and asked how schools could possibly be ignored.

Despite promising a new kind of politics, they have failed to do so — preferring frequently to ignore the large elephant in their own room.

If we ignore the elephant in the room — the logistics of finding, consenting, and funding that many samples — we might expect that tens of thousands of human genomes will be sequenced in the coming years.

Steroids are like the pink elephant in the room that everybody ignores, even though it's no secret that they are regularly used by all of the top bodybuilders.

It begins with hints of the chariot race to come — no sense ignoring the elephant in the room — before starting its story in 25 C.E. Judah Ben - Hur (Jack Huston) and his adopted brother Messalah (Toby Kebbell) are introduced as the closest of friends, true brothers.

I addressed head on the elephant in the room that some self - publishing advocates ignore: the importance of quality control.

Ignoring the big elephant in the room (ahem, Amazon) that has spearheaded the sale of e-books and driven down prices to take control of the market, I'd like to parse out exactly why digital books and digital music have such different pricing expectations.

To provide a sprinkle of truth and ignore the elephant in the room?

It is impossible to ignore the elephant in the room: not many people are playing LawBreakers right now, despite its very recent launch at the start of August.

Lots of images: Russian roulette, elephant in the living room that everyone is ignoring, 800 pound gorilla in the room that nobody is paying attention to, canary in the coal mine (Arctic ice melting rapidly year by year now), a train wreck in slow motion, the list goes on and on.

This article is an excellent summary of some of the issues involved in climate change, but like the UNFCCCC negotiations, the discussants in Paris seem to ignore the big elephant in the room: energy use.

It seems to me that doing carbon emissions on a per capita basis for developing countries ignores the elephant in the room of increasing population size.

It's just a shame that they are so rarely advanced in the company of evidence, and are most often used as excuses for ignoring the elephant in the room and squeezing in another two elephants over the next decade.

The above comments by wishful thinking skeptics coming up with all manner of ways to ignore this elephant in the room are simply delusional, do not be under the illusion hindsight that they had any sort of «point» or justification.

If sea level rise of the 18th and 19th centuries constitutes the elephant in the room, we shouldn't be surprised that climate «science» ignores most of the hot, mushy ball called Earth — which is the full Aida production in the phone booth.

«For the last 10 - 20 years or more, a few of us have been saying that the IPCC has been ignoring the elephant in the room... that the real climate system is simply not as sensitive to CO2 emissions as they claim.