Sentences with phrase «of kvetching»

Let's go sell a house, do it right, right away and then brag about how wonderful this business can be, instead of kvetching constantly — going no where — doing nothing except aggravate the situation.

The vast majority of the kvetching I've received so far for Stormhoek has been from Europeans.

But in time, a notion congealed — like a vat of warm triglyceride cooling in the breeze — that instead of kvetching about the lack of lipid expertise on the study sections, the lipid community could have a role in helping provide that expertise to the National Institutes of Health and other granting bodies.

While Ronaldo — the original one — has been nothing but gracious about his record being broken, there has been a fair amount of kvetching from others about the appropriateness of somebody like Klose taking the record of somebody like Ronaldo.

The picture is lawless in this way: Chris Rock's Marty the Zebra has never been blacker (his signature song this time around has something to do with a circus afro), David Schwimmer's Melman the Giraffe was never more of a kvetch, Bryan Cranston's Russian tiger Vitaly is depressed and bellicose, and Martin Short's brilliantly - conceived sea lion Stefano is enthusiastically, effervescently, Roberto Benigni - stupidly Italian.

He also admits he wasn't always so skilled at the art of the kvetch.

Not exact matches

His childhood memories of faux gridiron - green came back to him when a buddy kvetched to him about his «drought - murdered» Long Beach lawn.

In Matthew, Chapter 14, Simon and Andrew — probably kvetching at each other as they cast their nets into the sea — needed only one phrase to drop their nets and follow him, and the phrase was a dandy: «Hey, you fishermen... follow me; I'll make you fishers of men!»

Maybe if I kvetch a bit more, I'll be accepted into the home of the chosen people for a nosh.

Nina kvetched about the price of three small pieces of toast but taste wise I have to admit I'm getting slowly won over.

Lemieux's deadpan expression dissolves into a beatific smile when he's told of all the kvetching.

Those that look to the soul of a man grind their teeth at his self - aggrandisement, kvetch at his badge - thumping, and blink in disbelief as words like» [Guus Hiddink's] obviously a very good guy... I kept in contact on a personal level, and that speaks volumes for him» fall out of his mouth.

I call it the tyranny of the positive attitude,» grouses Barbara Held, professor of psychology at Bowdoin College and the author of Stop Smiling, Start Kvetching.

When critics kvetch about Hollywood's seemingly interminable case of sequelitis, the «Harry Potter» flicks are not what we're bemoaning.

R2 - D2 and C - 3PO bleep and kvetch their respective way through a few seconds of audience - pleasing screentime.

It's there that the film's ultraviolent battles take place, and while history buffs and medieval action fans will kvetch about anachronistic details of weaponry, fighting techniques and liberties taken with established facts, the selling point of «Ironclad» is its violence.

Rocket's relentless kvetches are nothing special this time, either, although the writers help the character by making him the sidekick of Thor — who is blissfully oblivious to his actual species.

The beginning of the Brooks empire, and still his funniest film, «The Producers» combines old - school kvetch comedy, Broadway backstage hi - jinks and outright headline - grabbing bad taste to intoxicating effect.

Of course, this demonstrates once again the huge disparity between those passionate moviegoers who kvetch and bitch on the internet, and regular moviegoers who just don't give a rat's ass (or even know) about what an RT score is.

Jenny Berlin and Scottish actor Ken Stott kvetch their way through their roles as Bobby's observant New York Jewish parents, letting Woody wallow through hoary stereotypes spouting the Wisdom of God's Chosen folk.

So, without anything to do or say, the filmmakers ask your indulgence as they cram the lacunae with dog reaction shots, cat reaction shots, baby reaction shots, dogs humping legs and other things shots, cat flushing the toilet and having toilet paper stuck to its paw shots, and, of course, Barbra Streisand on speed riding De Niro like the world's biggest (and loudest) jockey on the world's craziest steed, massaging Blythe Danner, and never, ever, not even for a second, finding it prudent to shut her kvetch hole.

Giggling and kvetching and so on and so forth, but at least it's better than the deadening self - congratulation of Rhimes / Horton.

He's drifting through life, kvetching over the fact that the beautiful Mimi (Kiersey Clemons, «Dope») is too smart to get involved with the likes of him.

With the votes finally counted almost everywhere, the fancies of education policy wonks turn to ESEA / NCLB, long overdue for reauthorization — and the subject of many aches, pains, and kvetches.

Our kvetches are mostly minor issues: The keyless access system needs a lock button on the outside of the tailgate and pressing a separate button on the climate control panel to check the outside temperature is a little archaic.

Civilians who kvetch about the bad writing of Dan Brown, Stephenie Meyer or any other hugely popular but critically disdained novelist can talk as much trash as they want about the supposedly low standards of traditional publishing.

For those kvetching about all the bad news we saw in the points and miles game in 2015, keep in mind there were plenty of great new developments as well.

But for all the kvetching, a funny thing happens while you're actually playing Twisted Metal instead of complaining about its disappointing shortcomings.

The other day, a friend of mine was kvetching about having to hold down three jobs.

Like all surveys of the immediate past, «NYC 1993» will get everyone kvetching, and it's a must - see, if only to find ways to bring the story into the present differently.

Note I've also (once or twice) kvetched Steve M and the auditors on similar issue of multiple lines of attack.

Reading articles such as this do not make me feel particularly warm and fuzzy about climate trends, but gee, it would be nice if people who are inclined towards such things at least provided solar aa - index data on top of their latest kvetching about the IPCC.

In that case, Congress eventually kvetched the president into allowing a «vote of disapproval,» a watered - down review process that required an unobtainable 60 votes in opposition to stop the deal, rather than the 36 needed to block a traditional treaty.

And in my post commenting on your earlier kvetch, didn't I suggest that such analyses might be undertaken by the authors of this study?

I have been kvetching a lot, most recently in posts here and here, about the Supreme Court's expenditure of so much time and energy on death penalty cases when there is so much post-Blakely and post-Booker work to be done.

Remote communication encourages people to get right to the point and not waste time kvetching, says Larry A. Whited Sr., CRB, CRS ®, head of Cincinnati - based WEBMLS, which has 136 mobile associates throughout Ohio.